Top 99 "Doing Something For Someone And Expecting Nothing In Return" Quotes
Doing something for someone and expecting nothing in return is the purest form of kindness. Here are the top 99 quotes that will inspire you to do good deeds:
- “True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.” – Suze Orman
- “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “When you do something for someone else, you don’t do it for yourself.” – Unknown
- “If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.” – Booker T. Washington
- “The greatest gift you can give someone is your time because when you give your time, you’re giving a portion of your life that you’ll never get back.” – Unknown
- “Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.” – Muhammad Ali
- “The best way to find happiness is by making others happy.” – Unknown
- “If you want to change the world, start with yourself. But don’t forget about the people around you.” – Unknown
- “The true test of a person’s character is not how much we know how to do, but how we behave when we don’t know what to do.” – John Holt
- “No one has ever become poor by giving.” – Anne Frank
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it.” – Steve Jobs
- “The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.” – Ben Carson
- “The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention.” – Oscar Wilde
- “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain
- “The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.” – Nelson Henderson
- “Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.” – Lao Tzu
- “The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Nelson Mandela
- “We rise by lifting others.” – Robert Ingersoll
- “The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
- “The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.” – Albert Schweitzer
- “If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself and make that change.” – Michael Jackson
- “It’s not enough to have lived. We should be determined to live for something.” – Winston S. Churchill
- “What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.” – Albert Pike
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “One of the most important things you can do on this earth is to let people know they are not alone.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “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
- “We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.” – Ronald Reagan
- “The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.” – Albert Einstein
- “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.” – Aesop
- “We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.” – Winston Churchill
- “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” – Mahatma Gandhi
- “The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.” – Morrie Schwartz
- “The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.” – James M. Barrie
- “The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.” – Mark Twain
- “Happiness is not something ready-made. It comes from your own actions.” – Dalai Lama
- “The greatest wealth is to live content with little.” – Plato
- “We can do no great things, only small things with great love.” – Mother Teresa
- “The most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched, they must be felt with the heart.” – Helen Keller
- “If you light a lamp for someone else, it will also brighten your path.” – Buddha
- “The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
- “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear.” – Elf
- “Don’t wait for people to be friendly. Show them how.” – Unknown
- “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” – Paul Valery
- “People who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do.” – Rob Siltanen
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs
- “The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
- “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
- “The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and the memories we’ve made along the way.” – Unknown
- “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” – Theodore Roosevelt
- “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
- “We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.” – Maya Angelou
- “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – African Proverb
- “The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.” – Coco Chanel
- “Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” – Jim Rohn
- “The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
- “The best way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing.” – Walt Disney
- “The only way to have a friend is to be one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and the memories we’ve made along the way.” – Unknown
- “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” – Edmund Burke
- “The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.” – Socrates
- “The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.” – Ernest Hemingway
- “The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.
- “The best things in life aren’t things.” – Art Buchwald
- “The happiest people don’t have the best of everything, they just make the best of everything they have.” – Unknown
- “The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and the memories we’ve made along the way.” – Unknown
- “The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.” – Paul Valery
- “The only way to do great work is to love what you do.” – Steve Jobs