Help Quotes

George santayana - each religion, by the help of more or less myth...
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
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
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
William james - believe that life is worth living and your belief...
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
Charles Dudley
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
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire.
Belva Plain
Only if we understand, will we care. Only if we care, will we help. Only if we help shall all be saved.
Jane Goodall
Opinion is that exercise of the human will which helps us to make a decision without information.
John Erskine
God help those who do not help themselves.
Wilson Mizne
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
James Truslow Adams
The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.
Theodore Parke
Puritanism... helps us enjoy our misery while we are inflicting it on others.
Marcel Ophuls
For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavouring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him.
George Orwell
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
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
Alexis Carrel
I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King
Complain to one who can help you.
Yugoslav Prove
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
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
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
Courtly love - Poetry may first have been written during long periods of abstinence on the Crusades, but it would not have flourished in the cold of northern Europe without some help from the chimney.
James Burke
Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother.
Anon.
I came to realize that life lived to help others is the only one that matters and that it is my duty... This is my highest and best use as a human.
Ben Stein, E! Online, 12 - 20 - 03
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
All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.
Maurice Masterlinck
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
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
There are painters who transform the sun to a yellow spot, but there are others who with the help of their art and their intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.
Pablo Picasso
I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble.
Mennonite Prove
Most everything in my brain, someone else helped put there.
Unknown
No men can be lords of our faith, though they may be helpers of our joy.
John Owen
Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you to miserable in comfort.
Lord Mancroft
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
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
Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.
Eric Hoffe
No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more that she can be witty by only the help of speech.
Langston Hughes
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.
Paul Harvey
The slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.
Jean De La Bruyere