Help Quotes

One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.

Benjamin Disreali

Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved.

Jane Goodall

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

Edmund Burke

You have spent many lives and much treasure to bring freedom to many lands that were reluctant to receive it. And here you have a people who won it by themselves and need only the help to preserve it.

Corazn Cojuangco Aquino

The influence of a beautiful, helpful, hopeful character is contagious and may revolutionize a whole town.

Eleanor H. Porte

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Saint Augustine

Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.

William James

But pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

George Eliot, Middlemarch, Ch 8

I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other. God help me. Amen.

Martin Luther, in front of his inquisitors at the Diet of Worms.

I believe that individuals can make a difference in society. Since periods of change such as the present one come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world.

The Dalai Lama, 1992 Speech

Even Albert Einstein reportedly needed help on his 1040 form.

Ronald Reagan

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

Hubert H. Humphrey

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

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

God, I offer myself to Thee, to build with me and to do with me as Thou wilt. Relieve me of the bondage of self, that I may better do Thy will. Take away my difficulties, that victory over them may bear witness to those I would help of Thy power, Thy love and Thy way of life. May I do Thy will always. Amen.

Alcoholics Anonymous Praye

For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.

George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004

Everyone makes a greater effort to hurt other people than to help himself.

Alexis Carrel

No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of our joy.

John Owen

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

Johann von Goethe

It is the great privilege of poverty to be happy and yet unenvied, to be healthy with physic, secure without a guard, and to obtain from the bounty of nature what the great and wealthy are compelled to procure by the help of art.

Johnson

Difference of opinion is helpful in religion.

Thomas Jefferson

Puritanism... helps us enjoy our misery while we are inflicting it on others.

Marcel Ophuls

Often it is the most deserving people who cannot help loving those who destroy them.

Hermann Hesse

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

Clifton Paul Fadiman

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Alan Alda

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.

Albert Einstein

If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.

William Feathe

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.

Clement Stone

Treat people as if they were what they should be, and you help them become what they are capable of becoming.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The healthy, the strong individual, is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

Rona Barrett

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

John Andrew Holmes

I know some good marriages - - Marriages where both people are just trying to get through their days by helping each other, being good to each other.

Erica Jong

American can do better, and help is on the way.

John Kerry, speech in 2004

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

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

Unknown

Just being happy helps other souls along Their burdens may be heavy and they not strong And your own sky will lighten, If other skies you brighten, by just being happy with a heart full of song.

Ripley D. Saunders