Help Quotes

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

Maurice Masterlinck

Noble be man, Helpful and good! For that alone Sets him apart From every other creature On earth.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832), from The Divine, 1783

It is one of those beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley Warne

I will charge thee nothing but the promise that thee will help the next man thee finds in trouble.

Mennonite Prove

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.

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

Edmund Burke

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

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

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

Abraham Lincoln

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

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed.

Buddha

Complain to one who can help you.

Yugoslav Prove

The best advisers, helpers and friends, always are not those who tell us how to act in special cases, but who give us, out of themselves, the ardent spirit and desire to act right, and leave us then, even through many blunders, to find out what our own form of right action is.

Phillips Brooks

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

It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Charles Dudley

I wish you music to help with the burdens of life, and to help you release your happiness to others.

Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

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

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

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

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

Anonymous

I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself.

J. R. R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

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 poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.

Walt Whitman

One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

Mother Theresa

The most eloquent prayer is the prayer through hands that heal and bless. The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

William Franklin Billy Graham

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

T. L. Cuyle

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

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

When griping grief the heart doth wound, and doleful dumps the mind opresses, then music, with her silver sound, with speedy help doth lend redress.

William Shakespeare

All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.

Noam Chomsky

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

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

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

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone.

Orison Swett Marden

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

Joseph B. Wirthlin