Everybody wants to do something to help, but nobody wants to be the first.

—Pearl Bailey

Everybody can be great ... because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

—Martin Luther King, Jr

The best way to do good to ourselves is to do it to others; the right way to gather is to scatter.

—Seneca

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us everyday.

—Sally Koch

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

—Abraham Lincoln

I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I do know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.

—Albert Schweitzer

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

—Winston Churchill

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

—Brian Tracy

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

—Charles Dickens

The service we render others is the rent we pay for our room on earth.

—Wilfred Grenfell

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

—Dr Loretta Scott

The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great good, that is, of helping them to help themselves.

—Theodore Roosevelt