Help Quotes

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

Sandra Carey

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)

We do not so much need the help of our friends as the confidence of their help when in need.

Epicurus

It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, to hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths, to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their own interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of good will.

Sallust

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

Shut out all of your past except that which will help you weather your tomorrows.

Sir William Osle

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

John F Kennedy

Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.

Honore De Balzac

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

A. C. Benson

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

Maria Montessori

To get the attention of a large animal, be it an elephant or a bureaucracy, it helps to know what part of it feels pain. Be very sure, though, that you want its full attention.

Kelvin Throop

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

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

T. L. Cuyle

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

Paul Harvey

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

I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans.

William Jefferson Clinton

You cannot teach a man anything. you can only help him to find it for himself.

Galileo Galilei

I guess one of the funniest memories of my grandfather was the time I was at his house and that tied - Up man with the gag in his mouth came hopping out of the closet and started yelling that HE was really my grandfather and the other guy was an imposter and to run for help. Who was that guy Oh, well, never saw HIM again.

Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

It is far more impressive when others discover your good qualities without your help.

Judith Martin, (Miss Manners)

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

A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.

Knights of Pythagoras

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

Zig Ziglar, "Secrets of Closing the Sale", 1984

Help thyself, and God will help thee.

Jean de La Fontaine

There is nothing more helpless and irresponsible than a man in the depths of an ether binge.

Hunter S Thompson, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

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

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

God helps those who help themselves.

Anonymous

Tell others of the positive effects of their actions. It will help return the kindness they showed to you.

Dan Kelly

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

Charles Dudley Warne

Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation.

Lord Robert Baden - Powell

He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.

Abraham Lincoln

We are indeed much more than what we eat, but what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.

Adelle Davis

Most everything in my brain, someone else helped put there.

Unknown

You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - Or are they holding you back.

Clement Stone

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

Hippocrates

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

When I stopped seeing my mother with the eyes of a child, I saw the woman who helped me give birth to myself.

Nancy Friday