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 (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun
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 (b.1921) American Catholic Poet, Peace Activist, Priest
Everyone needs help from everyone.
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German Poet, Playwright, Theater Personality
Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded.
—Unknown
If you want to be important – that’s wonderful. If you want to be great – that’s wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That’s your new definition of greatness – it means that everybody can be great because everybody can serve. You don’t have to know about Plato and Aristotle to serve. You don’t have to know the second law of thermodynamics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love…
—Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929–68) American Civil Rights Leader, Clergyman
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
—Arabic Proverb
We live very close together. So, our prime purpose in life is to help others. And if we can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
—The 14th Dalai Lama (b.1935) Tibetan Buddhist Leader, Civil Rights Advocate, Author
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 (1828–1910) Russian Novelist
The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.
—Swedish Proverb
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 (1809–91) American Masonic Scholar, Orator, Jurist
I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
—Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.
—Jesse Jackson (b.1941) American Civil Rights Leader, Minister
Don’t be afraid of outgiving God. It is impossible to do that.
—Chuck Swindoll (b.1934) American Evangelical Christian Pastor, Author
There is no better way to thank God for your sight than by giving a helping hand to someone in the dark.
—Helen Keller (1880–1968) American Author
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
—Theodor Seuss Geisel (‘Dr. Seuss’) (1904–91) American Children’s Writer, Cartoonist, Animator
The chief duty I long to accomplish great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker.
—Helen Keller (1880–1968) American Author
In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love.
—Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
—Anne Frank (1929–45) Holocaust Victim
I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is, above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference that you lived at all.
—Leo Rosten (1908–97) Polish-born American Humorist, Screenwriter, Writer
Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have.
—Christopher Morley (1890–1957) American Novelist, Essayist
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
—Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun
When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.
—Unknown
You can’t lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.
—Gene Mauch (1925–2005) American Sportsperson
He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.
—Abraham Lincoln (1809–65) American Head of State
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.
—Sydney Smith (1771–1845) English Clergyman, Essayist, Wit
To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.
—Confucius (551–479 BCE) Chinese Philosopher
Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.
—Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu Monk, Mystic
God lends a helping hand to the man who tries hard.
—Aeschylus (525–456 BCE) Greek Playwright
Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
—Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun
When you give of your possessions, you give but little; it is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
—Kahlil Gibran (1883–1931) Lebanese-American Philosopher, Poet, Sculptor
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