Help Quotes

Life is a series of experiences, each one of which makes us bigger, even though it is hard to realize this. For the world was built to develop character, and we must learn that the setbacks and griefs which we endure help us in our marching onward.

Henry Ford

When I am attacked by gloomy thoughts, nothing helps me so much as running to my books. They quickly absorb me and banish the clouds from my mind.

Michel de Montaigne

When nothing seems to help, I go and look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Jacob Riis

If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching, or cool one Pain, Or help one fainting Robin into his Nest again, I shall not live in Vain.

Emily Dickinson

In giving advice, seek to help, not please, your friend.

Solon

We seek the comfort of another. Someone to share our dreams and to share in the life we choose. Someone to help us through the neverending attempt to understand ourselves. And in the end, someone to comfort us along the way.

Marlin Finch Lupus

The more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.

Brian Tracy

It helps to write down half a dozen things which are worrying me. Two of them, say, disappear; about two, nothing can be done, so it? s no use worrying, and two perhaps can be settled.

Sir Winston Churchill

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life, that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

Phillips Brooks

As to diseases make a habit of two things - To help, or at least, to do no harm.

Hippocrates, Epidemics

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

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

John C. Dvorak

Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.

Euripides, Orestes (408 BC)

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Noam Chomsky

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

Eric Hoffe

It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.

Bailey

The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.

Jimmy Carte

Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.

Joan L. Curcio

How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

Belva Plain

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.

Galileo Galilei

Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about those conflicts.

John Owen

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711

How people keep correcting us when we are young! There is always some bad habit or other they tell us we ought to get over. Yet most bad habits are tools to help us through life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Seneca

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

One kernel is felt in a hogshead one drop of water helps to swell the ocean a spark of fire helps 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

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

Flora Edwards

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

Paul E. Gray

He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves.

A. P. Gouthey

Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.

Jesse Jackson

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

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

The aim of the college, for the individual student, is to eliminate the need in his life for the college the task is to help him become a self - Educating man.

C. Wright Mills

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

But few have spoken of the actual pleasure derived from giving to someone, from creating something, from finishing a task, form offering unexpected help almost invisibly and anonymously.

Paul Wiene

All successful newspapers are ceaselessly querulous and bellicose. They never defend anyone or anything if they can help it; if the job is forced on them, they tackle it by denouncing someone or something else.

H. L. Mencken