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

—Abraham Lincoln

If I can stop one heart from breaking, / I shall not live in vain: / If I can ease one life the aching, / Or cool one pain, / Or help one fainting robin / Unto his nest again, / I shall not live in vain.

—Emily Dickinson

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

It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

—Ralph Waldo Emerson

The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see.

—Dalai Lama

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.

—Jesse Jackson

No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. You must live for others if you wish to live for yourself.

—Seneca

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

—Charles Dickens

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

—Kahlil Gibran

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

—Loretta Scott

There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.

—Booker T. Washington

We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.

—Henry David Thoreau

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?”

—Brian Tracy