Help Quotes, Proverbs & Sayings

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Aeschylus

The hands that help are better far than the lips that pray.
Robert Green Ingersoll

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.
Elbert Hubbard

Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.
Jean De La Fontaine

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
Flora Edwards

There is no more noble occupation in the world than to assist another human being - to help someone succeed.
Alan Loy McGinnis

If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.
Chinese Proverb

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.
Napoleon Hill

Every little helps.
Proverb

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Edward G. Bulwer Lytton

People must help one another; it is nature’s law.
Jean de La Fontaine

God helps those who help themselves.
Benjamin Franklin & Wilson Mizner

Two heads are better than one.
Proverb

If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking him if there’s anything you can do. Think of something appropriate and do it.
E. W. Howe

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better.
Jim Rohn

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
Les Brown

Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.
Sally Koch

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It’s what you do for others.
Danny Thomas

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
Buddhist saying

Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Elizabeth Bibesco

We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
Dr. Loretta Scott & Ronald Reagan

Scratch my back and I’ll scratch yours.
Proverb

We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
Earl Nightingale

It is better to keep a friend from falling than to help him up.
Anonymous

What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
George Eliot

If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller

The duty of helping one’s self in the highest sense involves the helping of one’s neighbors.
Samuel Smiles

Help is not help until it is given, so turn your intentions to help into acts of help. We judge ourselves by our intentions, but others judge us by our actions.
Lee J. Colan

I discovered a long time ago that if I helped people get what they wanted, I would always get what I wanted and I would never have to worry.
Anthony Robbins