Help Quotes

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

William James

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

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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

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

Knights of Pythagoras

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

John Kerry, speech in 2004

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

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

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

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

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

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

A. P. Gouthey

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

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

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

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

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

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

Honore De Balzac

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

Solon

What looks like a loss may be the very event which is subsequently responsible for helping to produce the major achievement of your life.

Srully D. Blotnick

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

Alexis Carrel

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

Marcel Ophuls

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

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

Seneca

One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

Mother Theresa

Of men who have a sense of honor, more come through alive than are slain, but from those who flee comes neither glory nor any help.

Homer, The Iliad

What actions are most excellent? To gladden the heart of human beings, to feed the hungry, to help the afflicted, to lighten the sorrow of the sorrowful, and to remove the sufferings of the injured.

Prophet Mohammad

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

No one can be right all of the time, but it helps to be right most of the time.

Robert Half

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back.

Richard Lewis

Never look down on anybody unless you helping him up.

Jesse Jackson

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

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

Sandra Carey

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

Charles Dudley Warne

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

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

Galileo Galilei

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

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

Hippocrates, Epidemics

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

Julia A. Fletcher Carney