Quotes about help
A collection of quotes on the topic of help, doing, use, people.
Best quotes about help

“What else is the help of medicine than love?”
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)

“You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.”

“Here I stand; I can do no otherwise. God help me. Amen!”
As reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 186; and in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: Here I stand; I can do no other.
Source: Martin Luther's Ninety-Five Theses

“Boredom helps one to make decisions.”
Aunt Alicia
Gigi (1945)

“In giving advice seek to help, not to please, your friend.”
Quotes about help

Song The Brightside, Album: Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 1

Song Life is Beautiful, Album: Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 2


“People really need help but may attack you if you help them. Help people anyway!”

“I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.”

on Marilyn Horne's influence; 2005, as quoted by Zachary Lewis https://solokeyboard.typepad.com/Music2005Final.doc and edited into the Oberlin Review article The Marilyn Horne Experience http://www2.oberlin.edu/con/connews/2006/of_note.html#3

"Rock On Freddie" (1985).
Teacher

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space (1994), p. 8, Supplemental image at randi.org http://www.randi.org/images/122801-BlueDot.jpg

1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)

“My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.”
Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life

“Dear Jesus… how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.”
Source: The Hiding Place

Response to Harold Bell, question about his view on friendship in an Interview (video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InSFYdFaS3E.

Other

On the lightening of his skin.
Televised Interview with Oprah Winfrey (1993)

Source: Letters and Papers from Prison

Variant: A great human revolution in just a single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a nation and, further, can even enable a change in the destiny of all humankind.
Source: The Human Revolution

Reported in Patti Denys, Mary Holmes, Animal Magnetism: At Home With Celebrities & Their Animal Companions (1998), p. 106
Source: Jane Goodall: 40 Years at Gombe

Source: Robert Baden-Powell: Scouting for Boys, The Original

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

The Rock's return to WWE Raw as host of WrestleMania XXVII (14 February, 2011) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8ejiG5-BtA&feature=related.

Part I : The Child's Part in World Reconstruction, p. 4.
The Absorbent Mind (1949)
Context: If help and salvation are to come they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.
The child is endowed with unknown powers, which can guide us to a radiant future. If what we really want is a new world, then education must take as its aim the development of these hidden possibilities.

“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.”
Keynote speech at "Celebrating Inspiration" luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, quoted in Mechelle Voepel, ESPN (July 13, 2006)
2000s

“Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.”


Colin Powell in My American Journey (1995)
Misattributed

Bk. 1, ch. 6; as translated by Henry Graham Dakyns in Cyropaedia (2004) p. 31.
Cyropaedia, 4th Century BC

Page 34
Describing his first healing service, healing 15 people after delivering a sermon unprepared.
The Complete Story: A New Biography on the Apostle of Faith By Julian Wilson http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=e2RWZpOHfmoC|Wigglesworth:

“If President Bush doesn't help us, these terrorists will damage the U. S. and Europe very soon.”
Remark to a reporter (April 2001), quoted in Time (4 August 2002) " The Secret History https://archive.is/20120919170542/www.time.com/time/covers/1101020812/story.html" by Michael Elliott.

“It is not so much our friends' help that helps us, as the confidence of their help.”

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.”
E quando você quer alguma coisa, todo o Universo conspira para que você realize seu desejo.
Variant: And, when you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to achieve it.
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 22; a variant of this has become attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen" — but no occurrence of this a statement has been located prior to in The Gift of Depression : Twenty-one Inspirational Stories Sharing Experience, Strength, and Hope (2001) by John F. Brown, p. 56

“Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness”

“The four sayings that lead to wisdom:
I was wrong
I'm sorry
I don't know
I need help”

Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 11, p. 179

Source: On Coalition Government (1945)

Source: Industrial and General Administration, 1916, p. 68 ; as cited in: Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 6-7

No. 68.
Seventy Resolutions (1722-1723)

As quoted in How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) by Dale Carnegie, p. 26
1936 speeches to the Great Council of Chiefs
Nahj al-Balagha

This has usually been presented as something "said shortly before his death" without any definite source, but appears to be entirely spurious. The "FAQ about the life and thoughts of Albert Schweitzer" http://www.schweitzer.org/faq?lang=en#rasist asserts "This quote is utterly false and is an outrageously inaccurate picture of Dr. Schweitzer’s view of Africans. Dr. Schweitzer never said or wrote anything remotely like this. It does NOT appear in the book African Notebook." This refers to some citations of it being from Afrikanische Geschichten (1938), which was translated as From My African Notebook (1939) by Mrs. C. E. B Russell
Misattributed
“I'm a sinner so Jesus please, help me pass and graduate so I'd make it to hell, feel me?”
Never Told Me (2018)

Then & Now: Magic Johnson http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/01/17/cnn25.tan.johnson/index.html

Excerpt from 2017 Personality Lecture 21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9U5IHQWSZc
Personality Lectures

Babur writing about the battle against the Rajput Confederacy led by Maharana Sangram Singh of Mewar. In Babur-Nama, translated into English by A.S. Beveridge, New Delhi reprint, 1979, pp. 547-572.

“Won't you help to sing,
These songs of freedom?
'Cause all I ever had,
Redemption songs.”
Redemption Song
Uprising (1979)

“It is sometimes helpful to differentiate between the God of Miracles and the God of Order.”
Source: Hyperspace (1995), Ch.15 Conclusion<!--pp.330-331-->
Context: It is sometimes helpful to differentiate between the God of Miracles and the God of Order. When scientists use the word God, they usually mean the God of Order.... The God of Miracles intervenes in our affairs, performs miracles, destroys wicked cities, smites enemy armies, drowns the Pharaoh's troops, and avenges the pure and noble.... This is not to say that miracles cannot happen, only that they are outside what is commonly called science.

Physics and Philosophy (1958)
Context: Any concepts or words which have been formed in the past through the interplay between the world and ourselves are not really sharply defined with respect to their meaning: that is to say, we do not know exactly how far they will help us in finding our way in the world. We often know that they can be applied to a wide range of inner or outer experience, but we practically never know precisely the limits of their applicability. This is true even of the simplest and most general concepts like "existence" and "space and time". Therefore, it will never be possible by pure reason to arrive at some absolute truth.
The concepts may, however, be sharply defined with regard to their connections. This is actually the fact when the concepts become part of a system of axioms and definitions which can be expressed consistently by a mathematical scheme. Such a group of connected concepts may be applicable to a wide field of experience and will help us to find our way in this field. But the limits of the applicability will in general not be known, at least not completely.

Godse referring to Gandhi's way of empathising with destitutes not by helping them but by imitating their unfortunate circumstances
Excerpts from the play Mee Nathuram Godse boltoy

Source: Discovering Buddhism, 2004 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=226w04QMPzQ

“We're already taking back the Internet. With your help, we can take back the world.”


“A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.”