If you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize it.
—Unknown
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
—Arabic Proverb
A large heart can be filled with very little.
—Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Poet
Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.
—Jesse Jackson (b.1941) American Baptist Civil Rights Activist, Minister
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 (1883–1931) Lebanese-born American Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Theologian, Sculptor
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
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the world.
—Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun
Helping others is like helping yourself.
—Henry M. Flagler (1830–1913) American Industrialist
To do more for the world than the world does for you—that is success.
—Henry Ford (1863–1947) American Businessperson, Engineer
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
Instead of counting your days, make your days count.
—Unknown
It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
—Napoleon Hill (1883–1970) American Author, Journalist, Attorney, Lecturer
The service we render to others is really the rent we pay for our room on this earth. It is obvious that man is himself a traveler; that the purpose of the world is not.
—Wilfred Grenfell (1865–1940) Canadian Humanitarian, Doctor
Look around the habitable world: how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
—Juvenal (c.60–c.136 CE) Roman Poet
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root, and it may be that he who bestows the largest amount of time and money on the needy is doing the most by his mode of life to produce that misery which he strives in vain to relieve.
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–62) American Philosopher
Everyone needs help from everyone.
—Bertolt Brecht (1898–1956) German Poet, Playwright, Theater Personality
Advising is easier than helping.
—German Proverb
Being generous, just helping one’s relatives and being blameless in one’s actions; this is the best good luck.
—Buddhist Teaching
Charity sees the need, not the cause.
—German Proverb
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
—Thomas Carlyle (1795–1881) Scottish Historian, Essayist
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”.
—Unknown
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
Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher
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-born American Philosopher, Poet, Painter, Theologian, Sculptor
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. (1929–68) American Civil Rights Leader, Clergyman
Realize that if you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to do something about it.
—Anthony J. D’Angelo
If we could all hear one another’s prayers, God might be relieved of some of his burdens.
—Ashleigh Brilliant (b.1933) British Cartoonist, Author
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
—Nikolai Berdyaev (1874–1948) Russian Christian Philosopher, Religious Leader
Three helping one another bear the burden of six.
—George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh Anglican Poet, Orator, Clergyman
Go the extra mile. It’s never crowded.
—Unknown
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