Help Quotes

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

Jean de La Fontaine

When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.

Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

Theodore Parke

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.

Seneca

It is a lovely thing to have a husband and wife developing together and having the feeling of falling in love again. That is what marriage really means helping one another to reach the full status of being persons, responsible and autonomous beings who do not run away from life.

Paul Tournie

A good exercise for the heart is to bend down and help another up.

Anonymous

One of the universal rules of happiness is: always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.

Terry Pratchett, Jingo

No one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley Warne

I hate it in friends when they come too late to help.

Euripides

Of all the inventions that have helped to unify China perhaps the airplane is the most outstanding. Its ability to annihilate distance has been in direct proportion to its achievements in assisting to annihilate suspicion and misunderstanding among provincial officials far removed from one another or from the officials at the seat of government.

Madame Chiang

History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.

Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)

Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.

Saint Francis de Sales

Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.

Eric Hoffe

Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.

Jesse Jackson

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey

God always has an angel of help for those who are willing to do their duty.

T. L. Cuyle

In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him.

Martin Terman

Three things are necessary to make every man great, every nation great1. Conviction of the powers of goodness. 2. Absence of jealousy and suspicion. 3. Helping all who are trying to be and do good.

Swami Vivekananda

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist in our helper.

Edmund Burke

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Maria Montessori

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

Jane E. Brody

If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.

Frank Herbert, The Dosadi Experiment

We do not believe in immortality because we can prove it, but we try to prove it because we cannot help believing it.

Harriet Martineau

Knowledge is essential to conquest; only according to our ignorance are we helpless. Thought creates character. Character can dominate conditions. Will creates circumstances and environment.

Anne Besant

Each religion, by the help of more or less myth which it takes more or less seriously, proposes some method of fortifying the human soul and enabline it to make its peace with its destiny.

George Santayana

I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble.

Mennonite Prove

The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to.

Richard Feynman, Letter to Koichi Mano, February 3, 1966

One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire help to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.

Hannah More

For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.

Alan Valentine

If someone breaks your heart, forgive them. For they have helped you leard an important lesson on who you open your heart to.

Unknown

A friend is someone who will help you move. A real friend is someone who will help you move a body.

Unknown

In life you can never be too kind or too fair everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load. When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with.

Brian Tracy

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

Sally Koch

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

Sandra Carey

Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

George Herbert Walker Bush

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), from The Divine, 1783

You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.

Zig Ziglar, See you at the Top

Women can form a friendship with a man very well but to preserve it - - To that end a slight physical antipathy must probably help.

George Jean Nathan