
„People really need help but may attack you if you help them. Help people anyway!“
— Matka Tereza Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin 1910 - 1997
A collection of quotes on the topic of help, can, doing, use.
„People really need help but may attack you if you help them. Help people anyway!“
— Matka Tereza Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin 1910 - 1997
„Overcome the devils with a thing called love.“
— Bob Marley Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945 - 1981
„My heart is broke, but I have some glue, help me inhale and mend it with you.“
— Kurt Cobain American musician and artist 1967 - 1994
„So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.“
— Paulo Coelho, book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist
„It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.“
— Henri Poincaré French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science 1854 - 1912
„Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.“
— Gabriel García Márquez, book Love in the Time of Cholera
Source: Love in the Time of Cholera
„The earth laughs in flowers.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson American philosopher, essayist, and poet 1803 - 1882
„I can resist everything except temptation.“
— Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
Lord Darlington, Act I
Variant: I can resist everything except temptation
Source: Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
Total 5052 quotes help, filter:
— Lil Peep American rapper 1996 - 2017
Song The Brightside, Album: Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 1
— Lil Peep American rapper 1996 - 2017
Song Life is Beautiful, Album: Come Over When You're Sober, Pt. 2
— Robert Baden-Powell lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement 1857 - 1941
„I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.“
— Vincent Van Gogh Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853 - 1890
— Freddie Mercury British singer, songwriter and record producer 1946 - 1991
"Rock On Freddie" (1985).
— Carl Sagan, book Pale Blue Dot
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
„What else is the help of medicine than love?“
— Paracelsus Swiss physician and alchemist 1493 - 1541
Paracelsus - Doctor of our Time (1992)
— Megan Marie Hart American opera singer 1983
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
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi 1906 - 1945
Source: Letters and Papers from Prison
— Jane Goodall British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist 1934
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
— Thomas Sowell American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author 1930
1980s–1990s, Barbarians inside the Gates and Other Controversial Essays (1999)
— Robert Baden-Powell lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement 1857 - 1941
Source: Robert Baden-Powell: Scouting for Boys, The Original
— Muhammad Ali African American boxer, philanthropist and activist 1942 - 2016
Response to Harold Bell, question about his view on friendship in an Interview (video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=InSFYdFaS3E.
— Dwayne Johnson American actor and professional wrestler 1972
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.
„Dear Jesus… how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.“
— Corrie ten Boom, book The Hiding Place
Source: The Hiding Place
„The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.“
— Friedrich Nietzsche German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist 1844 - 1900
— Daisaku Ikeda Japanese writer 1928
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
„Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.“
— Eleanor Roosevelt American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States 1884 - 1962
— Jordan Peterson Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology 1962
Other
„Fire will attract more attention than any other cry for help.“
— Jean-Michel Basquiat American artist 1960 - 1988
— Henri Fayol Developer of Fayolism 1841 - 1925
Source: Industrial and General Administration, 1916, p. 68 ; as cited in: Albert Lepawsky (1949), Administration, p. 6-7
— Jonathan Edwards Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian 1703 - 1758
No. 68.
Seventy Resolutions (1722-1723)
— Michael Jackson American singer, songwriter and dancer 1958 - 2009
On the lightening of his skin.
Televised Interview with Oprah Winfrey (1993)
„I'm a sinner so Jesus please, help me pass and graduate so I'd make it to hell, feel me?“
— E.M.S Nigerian rapper, singer and record producer 1995
Never Told Me (2018)
— Xenophon, book Cyropaedia
Bk. 1, ch. 6; as translated by Henry Graham Dakyns in Cyropaedia (2004) p. 31.
Cyropaedia, 4th Century BC
„If President Bush doesn't help us, these terrorists will damage the U. S. and Europe very soon.“
— Ahmad Shah Massoud Afghan military leader 1953 - 2001
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.
— Maria Montessori Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician 1870 - 1952
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.
„It is sometimes helpful to differentiate between the God of Miracles and the God of Order.“
— Michio Kaku, book Hyperspace
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.
— Nathuram Godse Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi 1910 - 1949
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
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Teacher
„We're already taking back the Internet. With your help, we can take back the world.“
— Jimmy Wales Wikipedia co-founder and American Internet entrepreneur 1966
— Elie Wiesel writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor 1928 - 2016
„There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women.“
— Madeleine K. Albright Former U.S. Secretary of State 1937
Keynote speech at "Celebrating Inspiration" luncheon with the WNBA's All-Decade Team, quoted in Mechelle Voepel, ESPN (July 13, 2006)
2000s
— Pablo Neruda Chilean poet 1904 - 1973
dies slowly…
Muere lentamente quien no viaja, quien no lee,
quien no oye música,
quien no encuentra gracia en sí mismo.
Muere lentamente
quien destruye su amor propio,
quien no se deja ayudar...
Poem "Muere lentamente" (Dying Slowly), wrongly attributed to Pablo Neruda. See "Fake Pablo Neruda Poem Spreads on Internet" http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=325275&CategoryId=14094 by Ana Mendoza, Latin American Herald Tribune (12 January 2009).
Misattributed
Source: Selected Poems
„Sometimes it helps to scold yourself, to give yourself advice.“
— R.L. Stine, book The Haunted Mask II
Source: The Haunted Mask II
„You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.“
— Nina Simone American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil rights activist 1933 - 2003
„You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.“
— George Burns American comedian, actor, and writer 1896 - 1996
— Michael Parenti American academic 1933
Source: Democracy for the Few (2010 [1974]), sixth edition, Chapter 11, p. 179
— Bhakti Tirtha Swami American Hindu writer 1950 - 2005
Meditation 8 - Illness as a special gift from God
Books, The Beggar, Volume III: False Ego: The Greatest Enemy of the Spiritual Leader (Hari-Nama Press, 2002)
— Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum Emirati politician 1949
Quotes on Philanthropy, http://www.sheikhmohammed.co.ae/vgn-ext-templating/v/index.jsp?vgnextoid=99c18960a5a11310VgnVCM1000004d64a8c0RCRD&appInstanceName=default, sheikhmohammed.ae.
— Siad Barre Head of State of Somalia 1919 - 1995
Speech (1972), as quoted by Ioan Myrddin (1980), A Modern History of Somalia, Wilture Enterprises (International) Ltd.
— Al Capone American gangster 1899 - 1947
As quoted in How to Win Friends and Influence People (1936) by Dale Carnegie, p. 26
— John Green, book The Fault in Our Stars
A desert blessing, an ocean curse. What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers."
Augustus "Gus" Waters, p. 310-313
The Fault in Our Stars (2012)
— Ali, book Nahj al-Balagha
Nahj al-Balagha
— Joachim Peiper SS officer 1915 - 1976
Letter to Willis Everett, July 4, 1946. Parker, Hitler's Warrior, chapter 14, citing Everett Papers in note 5.
— Huldrych Zwingli leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, and founder of the Swiss Reformed Churches 1484 - 1531
Letter to Capito, January 1, 1526 (Staehelin, Briefe ausder Reformationseit, p. 20), ibid, p. 249-250
— Karl Popper Austrian-British philosopher of science 1902 - 1994
Colin Powell in My American Journey (1995)
Misattributed
— Smith Wigglesworth British evangelist 1859 - 1947
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:
— Magic Johnson American basketball player 1959
Then & Now: Magic Johnson http://edition.cnn.com/2005/US/01/17/cnn25.tan.johnson/index.html
— Jagadish Chandra Bose Bengali polymath, physicist, biologist, botanist and archaeologist 1858 - 1937
Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose in Vijayaprasara
— Gene Wolfe American science fiction and fantasy writer 1931 - 2019
Volume 3, Ch. 17
Fiction, The Book of the Short Sun (1999–2001)
— Jordan Peterson Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and professor of psychology 1962
Excerpt from 2017 Personality Lecture 21. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9U5IHQWSZc
Personality Lectures
— Etty Hillesum Jewish diarist 1914 - 1943
12 July 1942, p. 488-89
Etty: The Letters and Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943
— Kanō Jigorō Japanese educator and judoka 1860 - 1938
Source: Kodokan Judo (1882), p. 23
Context: Judo teaches us to look for the best possible course of action, whatever the individual circumstances, and helps us to understand that worry is a waste of energy. Paradoxically, the man who has failed and one who is at the peak of success are in exactly the same position. Each must decide what he will do next, choose the course that will lead him to the future. The teachings of judo give each the same potential for success, in the former instance guiding a man out of lethargy and disappointment to a state of vigorous activity.
„There is power in understanding the journey of others to help create your own.“
— Kobe Bryant American basketball player 1978 - 2020
— Sukirti Kandpal Indian actress 1987
On working in webseries https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/hindi/sukriti-kandpal-except-for-supernatural-and-naagin-shows-i-dont-think-much-has-changed-on-tv/articleshow/70315084.cms/
— Alfred Freddy Krupa Croatian contemporary painter, master draughtsman, book artist and art teacher, the pioneer of the New Ink Art movement 1971
Overcoming a Personal Holocaust, Alfred Freddy Krupa (in the article by Ante Vranković), Life As A Human (Canada), 2019
2010s
— Sukavich Rangsitpol Thai politician 1935
Education helps reduce social problems and improves quality of life
— Philip Kotler American marketing author, consultant and professor 1931
Cited in: Robert W. Price (2001), Internet and Business, 2001-2002. p. 117
Marketing Management: Analysis, Planning, Implementation and Control, 1967
— Laurell K. Hamilton, book Incubus Dreams
Psychic mentor Marianne, to Anita; p. 61
Source: Anita Blake: Vampire Hunter series, Incubus Dreams (2004)
„Drowning yourself won't help, she told herself sternly. Now, drowning Will, on the other hand…“
— Cassandra Clare, book Clockwork Angel
Source: Clockwork Angel
— Jimmy Carter American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981) 1924
Presidency (1977–1981), 1977