A collection of support quotes inspiring you to lift other people and to not be afraid to ask for help.
Supporting one another is vital in helping you live a happy and meaningful life. It’s important to reach out to our family, friends and loved ones to help them be strong and let them know we care about them.
You may not always know the right thing to say or the right thing to do to help them but the important thing is you show up, be there for them, and sometimes, the best thing that you can do is just to listen.
Also, you must forget, that while it’s important to support other people, asking for help and needing support is also just as important.
Remind yourself that when you’re ready to let other people in, there is no shame in asking for help and in opening up.
We have gathered the best support quotes from various sources to inspire you and give you some encouragement.
70 Support Quotes
I want to be around people that do things. I don’t want to be around people anymore that judge or talk about what people do. I want to be around people that dream and support and do things.
— Amy Poehler
Be strong, be fearless, be beautiful. And believe that anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you.
— Misty Copeland
The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defining you forevermore?
— Dan Pearce
In my deepest, darkest moments, what really got me through was a prayer. Sometimes my prayer was ‘Help me.’ Sometimes a prayer was ‘Thank you.’ What I’ve discovered is that intimate connection and communication with my creator will always get me through because I know my support, my help, is just a prayer away.
— Iyanla Vanzant
Strong people don’t put others down… They lift them up.
— Michael P. Watson
Choose to focus your time, energy and conversation around people who inspire you, support you and help you to grow you into your happiest, strongest, wisest self.
— Karen Salmansohn
Was it you or I who stumbled first? It does not matter. The one of us who finds the strength to get up first, must help the other.
— Vera Nazarian
God has blessed me with an amazing family, friends and work colleagues that have been my joy, my support, and my sanity. I don’t know what I’d do without them.
— Josie Loren
The human touch is that little snippet of physical affection that brings a bit of comfort, support, and kindness. It doesn’t take much from the one who gives it, but can make a huge difference in the one who receives it.
— Mya Robarts
Empathy, humanity and support for each other is more important than revenue, than growth.
— Eric Yuan
If you can do nothing else, do whatever is in your power to make the people in your life feel completely unashamed of who they are.
— Sam Killermann
You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
— Sabrina Bryan
No person, trying to take responsibility for her or his identity, should have to be so alone. There must be those among whom we can sit down and weep, and still be counted as warriors.
— Adrienne Rich
Everyone has different paths. I’ve been lucky to have a good support system – my family, friends and colleagues to keep me grounded and humble and to keep working hard. I never give up.
— Zack Steffen
Encouraging Support quotes and sayings
It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance.
— Simone Weil
I live in the faith that there is a Presence and Power greater than I am that nurtures and supports me in ways I could not even imagine. I know that this Presence is All knowing and All Power and is Always right where I am
I believe everyone should be equal, and we should all love and support each other and express ourselves the way we want to express ourselves and be whoever we want. That’s my motto.
— Melanie Martinez
Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.
— Deborah Day
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
— Ovid
When you have wit of your own, it’s a pleasure to credit other people for theirs.
— Criss Jami
We come in many different shapes and sizes, and we need to support each other and our differences. Our beauty is in our differences.
— Carre Otis
If you want to support others you have to stay upright yourself.
— Peter Heg
With the right set of mind, with the right people, with the right support, things happen.
— Grigor Dimitrov
He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
— Robert Green Ingersoll
In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
— Taylor Swift
Never reach out your hand unless you’re willing to extend an arm.
— Elizabeth Fuller
In a meadow full of flowers, you cannot walk through and breathe those smells and see all those colors and remain angry. We have to support the beauty, the poetry, of life.
— Jonas Mekas
We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
— Ronald Reagan
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Inspiring quotes about the importance of supporting each other
Life’s most urgent questions is: ‘What are you doing for others?’
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others.
— Bryant McGill
Support and encouragement are found in the most unlikely places.
— Raquel Cepeda
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton
At times, we are the bridge that allows another to re-enter the world after a loss. Don’t mistake it for more or its beauty may be lost.
— Danielle Pierre
Good friends sure make their presence known at times of strife and challenging times and are revealed for their true support when all others seem to vanish. It is one thing to say you are a true friend and quite another to actually step up to the plate when times get tough.
— Catherine Pulsifer
Encourage, lift and strengthen one another. For the positive energy spread to one will be felt by us all. For we are connected, one and all.
— Deborah Day
The fact is, there is no foundation, no secure ground, upon which people may stand today if it isn’t the family. If you don’t have the support and love and caring and concern that you get from a family, you don’t have much at all. Love is so supremely important. As our great poet Auden said, ‘Love each other or perish’.
— Mitch Albom
Fear is the result of counting on men instead of leaning on God.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Stand up for the underdog, the ‘loser.’ Sometimes having the strength to show loving support for unacknowledged others turns the tides of our own lives.
— Alexandra Katehakis
Build me up and I with you. For we are more one than two.
— Deborah Day
Everyone needs a support system, be it family, friends, coworkers, therapists, or religious leaders. We cannot do life alone and expect to keep mentally, emotionally, and spiritually healthy. Everyone needs some sort of support system on which to rely.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
When tough times come, it is particularly important to offset them with much gentle softness. Be a pillow.
— Vera Nazarian
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
— Whitney M. Young
Inspirational Support quotes
Be a rock to others in need, be a rock of support to those who are facing critical issues, be a rock full of caring, but be a rock who recognizes that you also will experience times when you need to seek your own rock.
— Byron Pulsifer
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
— Aesop
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
— Mother Teresa
Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
— Les Brown
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
— Arabian Proverb
Helping people getting a great start in life, a great foundation, is an investment.
— Gerry Schwartz
Helping others isn’t a chore; it is one of the greatest gifts there is.
— Liya Kebede
Be a supporter, not a contender, of your own life.
— Christine E. Szymanski
Sometimes the only thing you could do for people was to be there.
— Terry Pratchett
The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.
— Phillips Brooks
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Support the strong, give courage to the timid, remind the indifferent, and warn the opposed.
— Whitney M. Young
Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.
— Dalai Lama
Look up and not down. Look forward and not back. Look out and not in, and lend a hand.
— Edward Everett Hale
More quotes about support and encouragement
Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Always add value: it is the only gig that can help you survive
— Ruby Mohan
Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.
— Albert Einstein
Two main categories of people are needed in your circle; those who give you the necessary support to accomplish your dreams and those who become beneficiaries of what you achieve.
— Israelmore Ayivor
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
— Kahlil Gibran
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
— Mother Teresa
Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‘What’s in it for me?‘
— Brian Tracy
If Earth had a soccer team, everyone on Earth would wear the same jersey to support it. There’d be no them, there’d only be us.
— Peta Kelly
The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.
— Disraeli
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.
— Anne Morrow Lindeberg
You aren’t tearing apart. Just need a hug.
— Meghna Sodha
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
— Elbert Hubbard
I think of how I want to return the favor; to pull the heaviness of you, to be the one yelling it is not okay, pinning your demons down in the dirt, so you suddenly find yourself free, given the chance to begin your journey, growing on your own, uncovering your voice, finding your way back. I want to stay and fight, while you go.
— Chanel Miller
Life is less about keeping myself from falling and more about who I have around me when I do.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough