Helping Quotations
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Mother Teresa
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| Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others. |
| - Saint Aurelius Augustine |
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| A good example has twice the value of good advice. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Go the extra mile. It's never crowded. |
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| God has not called us to see through each other, but to see each other through. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Instead of counting your days, make your days count. |
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| 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. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something. |
| - Unknown Author |
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| 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." |
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| 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. |
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| When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own. |
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| If we could all hear one another's prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens. |
| - Ashleigh Brilliant |
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| 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 |
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| Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little. |
| - Edmund Burke |
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| The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. |
| - Thomas Carlyle |
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| 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 |
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| Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity. |
| - Edwin Hubbel Chapin |
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| Usefulness is happiness, and... all other things are but incidental. |
| - Lydia Maria Child |
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| We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. |
| - Sir Winston Churchill |
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| 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 |
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| Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots. |
| - Frank A. Clark |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. |
| - Benjamin Disraeli |
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| One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. |
| - George Eliot |
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| 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 |
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| The only gift is a portion of thyself. |
| - Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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| How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. |
| - Anne Frank |
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| My life is my message. |
| - Mahatma Ghandi |
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| You must be the change you wish to see in the world. |
| - Mahatma Ghandi |
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| 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 |
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| You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. |
| - Kahlil Gibran |
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| Improvement begins with I. |
| - Arnold Glasow |
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| 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 |
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| There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. |
| - Aldous Huxley |
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| The destroyer of weeds, thistles and thorns is a benefactor, whether he soweth grain or not. |
| - Robert Greene Ingersoll |
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| If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it. |
| - Anthony J. D'Angelo |
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| Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. |
| - William James |
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| The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. |
| - William James |
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| The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts. |
| - Samuel Johnson |
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| We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. |
| - C.G. Jung |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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, Jr. King |
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| 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, Jr. King |
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| If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it. |
| - Lucy Larcom |
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| 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 |
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| He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help. |
| - Abraham Lincoln |
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| 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 |
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| Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity. |
| - Horace Mann |
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| You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. |
| - Gene Mauch |
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| Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have. |
| - Christopher Morley |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| A large heart can be filled with very little. |
| - Antonio Porchia |
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| If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart. |
| - Arab Proverb |
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| Charity sees the need, not the cause. |
| - German Proverb |
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| 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 |
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| In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude. |
| - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry |
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| Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him. |
| - Albert Schweitzer |
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| Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not. |
| - Dr. Seuss |
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| This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the 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 |
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| It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little - do what you can. |
| - Sydney Smith |
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| Don't be afraid of outgiving God. It is impossible to do that. |
| - Charles R. Swindoll |
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| Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person. |
| - Mother Teresa |
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| I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world. |
| - Mother Teresa |
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| I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love. |
| - Mother Teresa |
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| If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one. |
| - Mother Teresa |
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| Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. |
| - Mother Teresa |
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| 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 |
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| We can do no great things, only small things with great love. |
| - Mother Teresa |
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| Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something. |
| - Henry David Thoreau |
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| 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 |
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| I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine. |
| - Kurt, Jr. Vonnegut |
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| There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. |
| - Edith Wharton |
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| Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. |
| - John Wooden |
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| Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. |
| - John Wooden |
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