Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes

You don't need a reason to help people.

If we see someone who needs help, do we stop? There is so much suffering and poverty, and a great need for good Samaritans.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

People can be good, people can be generous, people can be helpful. People can help those who are in need when they need it.

My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he has done good. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," it is not meant, thou shalt love him first and do him good in consequence of that love, but, thou shalt do good to thy neighbor; and this thy beneficence will engender in thee that love to mankind which is the fulness and consummation of the inclination to do good.

To save a life is a real and beautiful thing. To make a home for the homeless, yes, it is a thing that must be good; whatever the world may say, it cannot be wrong.

Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.

You'll not be in heaven if you're not leaning on the arm of someone you have helped.

It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

...of whom I can say with a grateful heart, 'I was hungry, and he gave me meat; I was thirsty, and he gave me drink; I was a stranger, and he took me in.'

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people.

The greatest satisfaction is not the decoration. It is knowing that I am able to help someone who needs help.

You cannot be so poor that you cannot help somebody.

But whoever has this world's goods, and sees his brother in need, and shuts up his heart from him, how does the love of God abide in him?

We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

Seek always to do some good, somewhere... Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

I'm a big believer in acts of kindness, no matter how small.

Even if you don't have a lot, you can help someone.

It's also selfish because it makes you feel good when you help others. I've been helped by acts of kindness from strangers. That's why we're here, after all, to help others.

There is no greater calling than to serve your fellow men. There is no greater contribution than to help the weak. There is no greater satisfaction than to have done it well.

Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.

Open eyes will discover opportunities everywhere; open ears will never fail to detect the cries of those who are perishing for assistance; open hearts will never want for worthy objects upon which to bestow their gifts; open hands will never lack for noble work to do.

As human beings, what we can do is extend help in whatever way possible.