Help Quotes

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

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

Benjamin Franklin

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

Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

Maurice Masterlinck

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

Edmund Burke

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

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

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

Belva Plain

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

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

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

Clifton Paul Fadiman

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

Eleanor H. Porte

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

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

Society attacks early when the individual is helpless.

B. F. Skinne

Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.

Booker T. Washington

What is the use of physicians like myself trying to help parents to bring up children healthy and happy, to have them killed in such numbers for a cause that is ignoble.

Benjamin Spock

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

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

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

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

John Andrew Holmes

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy like the heaven above.

Julia A. Fletcher Carney

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

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Alexis Carrel

Independence is the recognition of the fact that yours is the responsibility of judgment and nothing can help you escape it.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.

John Erskine

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

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

It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.

William Shakespeare

Helped are those who create anything at all, for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception.

Alice Walke

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

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.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

Henry Ford

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

Sandra Carey

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

I think these difficult times have helped me to understand better than before how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way and that so many things that one goes around worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Isak Dinesen

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