Good Quotes Venkat
Good Quotes Venkat
Good Quotes Venkat
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
~Anne Frank
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. ~Leo Nikolaevich
Tolstoy
The purpose of life is not to be happy - but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make
some difference that you have lived at all. ~Leo Rosten
We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~Mother Teresa
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. ~Dr. Seuss
It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where
he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much. ~Norman Lear
Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful. ~Author
Unknown
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. ~Mother
Teresa (Agnes Gonxha Bojarhiu)
I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I
cannot do interfere with what I can do. ~Edward Everett Hale
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can.
~Sydney Smith
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. ~Edmund
Burke
If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. ~Mother Teresa
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. ~Albert Schweitzer
He who gives when he is asked has waited too long. ~Sunshine Magazine
This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being
thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a
feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to
making you happy. ~George Bernard Shaw
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. ~Nelson
Henderson
While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate. ~Quoted in P.S. I
Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist. ~Laurence
Leamer, King of the Night
No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy. ~Knights of Pythagoras (Thanks, Jim)
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~Karl Reiland
~William Shakespeare, Merchant of Venice, much later adapted to "So shines a good deed in a weary
world" by David Seltzer for the 1971 film Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens. ~Ashleigh
Brilliant
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light. ~Norman B. Rice
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good
thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this
way again. ~William Penn
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.
~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
~Benjamin Disraeli
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ~Winston Churchill
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. ~Mohammed Ali
The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: "If I stop to help this man, what will
happen to me?" But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: "If I do not stop to help this man,
what will happen to him?" ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread
finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look
on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or
suffer a lot, or die a little, even. ~Daniel Berrigan
The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch. ~Catherine Hall
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal. ~Albert Pike (Thanks, Carl)
It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference. ~Tom Brokaw
God has not called us to see through each other, but to see each other through. ~Author Unknown
Do not commit the error, common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of
mankind you have failed. ~Jan de Hartog, The Lamb's War
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. ~Abraham Lincoln
If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it. ~Author Unknown
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. ~Horace Mann
When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own. ~Author Unknown
~Walt Whitman
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John Wooden, They Call Me Coach
Trees outstrip most people in the extent and depth of their work for the public good. ~Sara Ebenreck,
American Forests
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be
shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~Buddha
Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have.
~Christopher Morley
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. ~Henry David Thoreau
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. ~Paulo
Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1970
Past the seeker as he prayed came the crippled and the beggar and the beaten. And seeing them... he
cried, "Great God, how is it that a loving creator can see such things and yet do nothing about them?"
God said, "I did do something. I made you." ~Author Unknown
In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The
Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by Stuart Gilbert
Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides
himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude. ~Ernest Hello
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly
give. ~Kahlil Gibran
Love never reasons but profusely gives; gives, like a thoughtless prodigal, its all, and trembles lest it
has done too little. ~Hannah Moore
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. ~Arabian Proverb
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one. ~Nicholas Berdyaev
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry
as the dog. ~Jack London
If I thought I was going to die tomorrow, I should nevertheless plant a tree today. ~Stephan Girard
I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. ~Tracy
Chapman
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts. ~Samuel Johnson
Look around the habitable world: how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue. ~Juvenal,
Satires
The deed is everything, the glory naught. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. ~William James
I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able
to throw something back. ~Maya Angelou
The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual. ~Charles
Towne
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you
need more than I do. ~Kahlil Gibran
If all human lives depended upon their usefulness - as might be judged by certain standards - there
would be a sudden and terrific mortality in the world. ~Gene Tunney
Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. ~Edwin Hubbel Chapin
The destroyer of weeds, thistles and thorns is a benefactor, whether he soweth grain or not. ~Robert
Ingersoll, inscription to Volume I, Collected Works
There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a
little love. ~Mother Teresa
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly
making the ground green. ~Thomas Carlyle
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against
injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope... and crossing each other from a million different centers
of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of
oppression and resistance. ~Robert F. Kennedy
I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine. ~Kurt Vonnegut
There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~Edith Wharton,
Vesalius in Zante
A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of a forest. I too will set my face to
the wind and throw my handful of seed on high. ~Fiona MacLeod
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. ~Lucy Larcom
[U]sefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental. ~Lydia Maria Child, The American
Frugal Housewife, 1829
You may not have saved a lot of money in your life, but if you have saved a lot of heartaches for other
folks, you are a pretty rich man. ~Seth Parker
What a person believes is not as important as how a person believes. ~Timothy Virkkala
If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something
about it. ~Anthony J. D'Angelo, The College Blue Book
You must be the change you wish to see in the world. ~Mahatma Ghandi
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
~Frank A. Clark
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. ~C.G.
Jung
If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with
pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains. ~Cicero
To put the world right in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must
first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must
first set our hearts right. ~Confucius
Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single
lovely action. ~Lowell
You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. ~Gene Mauch
If everyone howled at every injustice, every act of barbarism, every act of unkindness, then we would
be taking the first step towards a real humanity. ~Nelson DeMille
My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one
starves while I eat. ~Leo Tolstoy
If you think you are too small to be effective, you have never been in bed with a mosquito. ~Betty
Reese
A large heart can be filled with very little. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by
W.S. Merwin
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone
up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. ~Andrew Carnegie
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. ~Mother Teresa
When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world. I found it was difficult to change the world, so
I tried to change my nation. When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I
couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family. Now, as an old man, I
realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed
myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our
town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.
~Author Unknown
A good example has twice the value of good advice. ~Author Unknown
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root. ~Thoreau,
Walden, 1854
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 your verb agree to serve.... You don't have to know
the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul
generated by love. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of
tiny pushes of each honest worker. ~Helen Keller
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
~Aldous Huxley, Time Must Have a Stop
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John Wooden
Instead of counting your days, make your days count. ~Author Unknown
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by
others. ~Saint Augustine
Helping Quotes
Enjoy our collection of inspirational helping quotes. Helping others is one of the gifts we have to give in
life. We hope the words of wisdom in the quotes and sayings inspire and motivate you to help someone
in need! Remember what you give will come back.
"In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and
comes back to us." Flora Edwards
“Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid.” Albert Schweitzer
"Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds." George Eliot
"Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes
deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light." Albert Schweitzer
"To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success." Henry Ford
"Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have." Jim Rohn
"People never forget that helping hand especially when times are tough." Catherine Pulsifer
"Do all the good you can, and make as little fuss about it as possible." Charles Dickens
"The more I help others to succeed, the more I succeed." Ray Kroc
You cannot contribute anything to the ideal condition of mind and heart known as Brotherhood,
however much you preach, posture, or agree, unless you live it. ~Faith Baldwin
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. ~John Donne
The moment we break faith with one another, the sea engulfs us and the light goes out. ~James
Baldwin
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. ~Alexander the Great
So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole earth. ~Bahá'u'lláh
I look to a time when brotherhood needs no publicity; to a time when a brotherhood award would be as
ridiculous as an award for getting up each morning. ~Daniel D. Mich
Unity to be real must stand the severest strain without breaking. ~Mahatma Gandhi
In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all
things essential to mutual progress. ~Booker T. Washington
We have learned to fly the air like birds and swim the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple
art of living together as brothers. ~Martin Luther King, Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
~Virginia Burden, the Process of Intuition
I have often noticed that when chickens quit quarreling over their food they often find that there is
enough for all of them. I wonder if it might not be the same with the human race. ~Don Marquis
“Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish yourself. It's what you do for
others.”
All the happiness there is in the world comes from thinking about others, and all the suffering comes
from preoccupation with yourself.
If you help others, you will be helped, perhaps tomorrow, perhaps in one hundred years, but you will be
helped. Nature must pay off the debt. It is a mathematical law and all life is mathematics.
At the center of the universe is a loving heart that continues to beat and that wants the best for every
person. Anything we can do to help foster the intellect and spirit and emotional growth of our fellow
human beings that is our job.
Those of us who have this particular vision must continue against all odds. Life is for service.
When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.
Teamwork divides the task and multiplies the success. ~Author Unknown
No one can whistle a symphony. It takes a whole orchestra to play it. ~H.E. Luccock
Teamwork is the ability to work as a group toward a common vision, even if that vision becomes
extremely blurry. ~Author Unknown
Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society
work, a civilization work. ~Vince Lombardi
The nice thing about teamwork is that you always have others on your side. ~Margaret Carty
One piece of log creates a small fire, adequate to warm you up, add just a few more pieces to blast an
immense bonfire, large enough to warm up your entire circle of friends; needless to say that
individuality counts but team work dynamites. ~Jin Kwon
No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent. ~John Donne
Cooperation is the thorough conviction that nobody can get there unless everybody gets there.
~Virginia Burden
Coming together is a beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success. ~Henry
Ford
It is amazing how much you can accomplish when it doesn't matter who gets the credit. ~Author
Unknown
Teamwork is the ability to work together toward a common vision. The ability to direct individual
accomplishment toward organizational objectives. It is the fuel that allows common people to attain
uncommon results. ~Andrew Carnegie
Regardless of differences, we strive shoulder to shoulder... [T]eamwork can be summed up in five short
words: "We believe in each other." ~Author Unknown
Contrary to popular belief, there most certainly is an "I" in "team." It is the same "I" that appears three
times in "responsibility." ~Amber Harding
We must all hang together or most assuredly we shall hang separately. ~Benjamin Franklin
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is
the only thing that ever has. ~Margaret Meade
The way a team plays as a whole determines its success. You may have the greatest bunch of
individual stars in the world, but if they don't play together, the club won't be worth a dime. ~Babe
Ruth
If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. ~Henry Ford
The ratio of We's to I's is the best indicator of the development of a team. ~Lewis B. Ergen
Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their
friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and
help one another achieve it. ~Bill Bradley
I am a member of a team, and I rely on the team, I defer to it and sacrifice for it, because the team,
not the individual, is the ultimate champion. ~Mia Hamm
Teamwork is so important that it is virtually impossible for you to reach the heights of your capabilities
or make the money that you want without becoming very good at it. ~Brian Tracy
No member of a crew is praised for the rugged individuality of his rowing. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
A snowflake is one of God's most fragile creations, but look what they can do when they stick together!
~Author Unknown
Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all. ~Alexander the Great
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks
and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. ~Antoine de Saint-
Exupery
A group becomes a team when each member is sure enough of himself and his contribution to praise
the skills of the others. ~Norman Shidle
Gettin' good players is easy. Gettin' 'em to play together is the hard part. ~Casey Stengel
It is a fact that in the right formation, the lifting power of many wings can achieve twice the distance of
any bird flying alone. ~Author Unknown