Quotes about help page 3

“Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.”

Friedrich Nietzsche book The Will to Power

Source: The Will to Power

Life, Feeling, Soul, Nature

“I can't sit still and see another man slaving and working. I want to get up and superintend, and walk round with my hands in my pockets, and tell him what to do. It is my energetic nature. I can't help it.”

Jerome K. Jerome book Three Men in a Boat

Source: Three Men in a Boat

Nature

“Stefan spat. "Oh, aye, he fell. O' course, Master Ralon helped him fall, several times. Poor li'l tyke didn't have a chance.”

Tamora Pierce book Alanna: The First Adventure

Source: Alanna: The First Adventure

Chance, Time

“If you and I are to live religious lives, it mustn't be that we talk a lot about religion, but that our manner of life is different. It is my belief that only if you try to be helpful to other people will you in the end find your way to God.”

Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-British philosopher

Life, God, People, Religion

“It marks a big step in your development when you come to realize that other people can help you do a better job than you could do alone.”

Andrew Carnegie (1835–1919) American businessman and philanthropist

“Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

“There’s lots of people will help you with alcohol business, but there’s no one out there arranging little meetings where you can stand up and say, ‘My name is Sam Vimes and I’m a really suspicious bastard.”

Terry Pratchett book Feet of Clay

Source: Feet of Clay

People, Alcohol, Business

“Every act I live while I am fully awake can not help but be both prayer and lovemaking.”

Oriah Mountain Dreamer (1954) Canadian author

“We can't help everyone but everyone can help someone”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

Sometimes attributed to Reagan, but the earliest citation attributes the saying to Dr Loretta Scott, 1,600 Quotes & Pieces of Wisdom That Just Might Help You Out When You're Stuck in a Moment https://books.google.com/books?id=quX0r9SkVj8C&pg=PA41&dq=%22we+can%27t+help+everyone%22+%22everyone+can+help+someone%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CBwQ6AEwAGoVChMIk-28w6WkyAIVR5SICh3HOwON#v=onepage&q=%22we%20can't%20help%20everyone%22%20%22everyone%20can%20help%20someone%22&f=false (2003), p. 41 Attributed

“He only has the right to criticize who has the heart to help.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

Original quote from William Penn (1693): They have a Right to censure, that have a Heart to help: The rest is Cruelty, not Justice.
Misattributed

Heart

“Surround yourself with people who make you happy. People who make you laugh, who help you when you’re in need. People who genuinely care. They are the ones worth keeping in your life. Everyone else is just passing through”

Karl Marx (1818–1883) German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and revolutionary socialist

Attributed to Karl Marx, a composer with the same name.
Misattributed

Life, Happiness, People

“When we hold our thoughts up against God's standards of what is true and what is real, we can recognize and, with His help, learn to release many of our negative emotions, damaging thoughts, and destructive attitudes.”

Elizabeth George (1949) American woman mystery and thriller writer

God, Learning

“God cares about every area of our lives, and God wants us to ask for help.”

Ben Carson (1951) 17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development; American neurosurgeon

Source: Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it within himself.”

Galileo Galilei (1564–1642) Italian mathematician, physicist, philosopher and astronomer

As quoted in How to Win Friends and Influence People (1935) by Dale Carnegie, p. 117; also paraphrased as "You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him to find it for himself." Attributions are found as early as 1882. Attributed Source: Google Books link https://books.google.com/books?id=h70_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA476&dq=You+cannot+teach+a+man+anything;+you+can+only+help+him+find+it+within+himself&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CB0Q6AEwAGoVChMI39Gmss_gyAIVRNRjCh1Q2wGN#v=onepage&q=%22You%20cannot%20teach%22&f=false

“Why do you look like cheese, Beka?" Nestor asked me quietly. "We've got help."
I was too flummoxed to tell him I hadn't expected help to come so fast. Miracles aren't for the likes of me, didn't Nestor know that? Only the nobility gets them.”

Tamora Pierce book Bloodhound

Source: Bloodhound

“Sometimes
when you are trying
not to think about something
it keeps popping back in your head
you can't help it
you think about it
and
think about it
and
think about it
until your brain
feels like
a squashed pea.”

Sharon Creech Love That Dog

Source: Love That Dog

Feeling, Thinking

“I will heighten my life by helping others heighten theirs”

Les Brown (1945) American politician

Source: Live Your Dreams

“You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.”

Frank Zappa (1940–1993) American musician, songwriter, composer, and record and film producer

Variant: You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline — it helps if you have some kind of a football team or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.

Beer, Football, Country

“The ten most dangerous words in the English language are "Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help."”

Ronald Reagan (1911–2004) American politician, 40th president of the United States (in office from 1981 to 1989)

Remarks to Future Farmers of America http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/archives/speeches/1988/072888c.htm (28 July 1988) 1980s, Second term of office (1985–1989)

“And you, you ridiculous people, you expect me to help you.”

Denis Johnson

Jesus' Son

“I've found that there is always some beauty left — in nature, sunshine, freedom, in yourself; these can all help you. Look at these things, then you find yourself again, and God, and then you regain your balance. A person who's happy will make others happy; a person who has courage and faith will never die in misery!”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

7 May 1944
(1942 - 1944)
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl

God, Happiness, Faith, Beauty

“If you do not help me," Tessa said to Jem, "I swear, I will change into you, and I will lift him myself. And then everyone here will see what you look like in a dress." She fixed him with a look. "Do you understand?”

Cassandra Clare book Clockwork Prince

Source: Clockwork Prince

Understanding, Change

“Just because you call an electric eel a rubber duck doesn't make it a rubber duck, does it? And God help the poor bastard who decides they want to take a bath with the duckie.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Bones

Jace to Clary, pg. 83
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Bones (2007)

“When my husband died, people kept telling me not to cry. People kept trying to help me to forget. But I didn't want to forget… So I realize, that if it's hard for me, how much harder it must be for you.”

Katherine Paterson book Bridge to Terabithia

Source: Bridge to Terabithia

People, Cry, Forgetting

“Oh, God of Dust and Rainbows,
Help us to see
That without the dust the rainbow
Would not be.”

Langston Hughes (1902–1967) American writer and social activist

“When you can't save yourself or your heart, it helps to be able to save face.”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

What Happened To Goodbye (2011)
Source: What Happened to Goodbye

Heart

“Oh, you can't help that,' said the cat. 'We're all mad here.”

Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Source: Alice in Wonderland

Cats, Madness

“A visiting pastor at our church in Plains once told a story about a priest from New Orleans. Father Flanagan’s parish lay in the central part of the city, close to many taverns. One night he was walking down the street and saw a drunk thrown out of a pub. The man landed in the gutter, and Father Flanagan quickly recognized him as one of his parishioners, a fellow named Mike. Father Flanagan shook the dazed man and said, “Mike!” Mike opened his eyes and Father Flanagan said, “You’re in trouble. If there is anything I can do for you, please tell me what it is.ℍ “Well, Father,” Mike replied, “I hope you’ll pray for me.” “Yes,” the priest answered, “I’ll pray for you right now.” He knelt down in the gutter and prayed, “Father, please have mercy on this drunken man.ℍ At this, a startled Mike woke up fully and said, “Father, please don’t tell God I’m drunk.ℍ Sometimes we don’t feel much of a personal relationship between God and ourselves, as though we have a secret life full of failures and sins that God knows nothing about. We want to involve God only when we plan to give thanks or when we’re in trouble and need help. But the rest of our lives, we’d rather keep to ourselves.”

Jimmy Carter (1924) American politician, 39th president of the United States (in office from 1977 to 1981)

Source: Through the Year with Jimmy Carter: 366 Daily Meditations from the 39th President

Life, God, Secret, Hope

“No one but a woman can help a man when he is in trouble of the heart.”

Bram Stoker book Dracula

Source: Dracula

Heart

“Be helpful. When you see a person without a smile, give him one of yours. ~”

Zig Ziglar (1926–2012) American motivational speaker

Source: Something to Smile about: Encouragement and Inspiration for Life's Ups and Downs

Smile, Personality

“I never knew I could hate someone as deeply as I do you.”
“I often help others discover the outer limits of their hatred. It’s a talent of mine.”

Kresley Cole American writer

Source: Lothaire

Hate

“Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.”

Laurie Halse Anderson book Chains

Source: Chains

Bee

“O God, help me to win, but in thy wisdom if thou willest me not to win, then O God, make me a good loser.”

Robert Baden-Powell (1857–1941) lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement

Wisdom, God

“If we do not do something to help these creatures, we make a mockery of the whole concept of justice.”

Jane Goodall (1934) British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist

Justice

“I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.”

Elie Wiesel (1928–2016) writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and Holocaust survivor

Nobel acceptance speech (1986)

Silence, Suffering

“Everyone must work to live, but the purpose of life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. Only then have we ourselves become true human beings.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

“The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

Variant: The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

“Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way.”

Swami Vivekananda (1863–1902) Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher

Pearls of Wisdom

Way

“We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues.”

Alberto Manguel (1948) writer

Source: The Library at Night

“Dear God, help me. Do not forget me on this tiny cinder lost in a galaxy that is lost–a heart no bigger than a speck of dust beating, beating against death, against meaninglessness, against guilt, against sorrow.”

Anne Rice The Wolf Gift

Source: The Wolf Gift

Death, God, Heart, Forgetting

“In my view, philanthropy goes against the grain; therefore it generates a lot of hypocrisy and many paradoxes. Here are some examples: Philanthropy is supposed to be devoted to the benefit of others, but philanthropists are primarily concerned with their own benefit; philanthropy is supposed to help people, yet it often makes people dependent and turns them into objects of charity; applicants tell foundations what they want to hear, then proceed to do what the applicant wants to do.”

George Soros (1930) Hungarian-American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist

People, Dependency

“He helped the Librarian up. There was a red glow in the ape's eyes. It had tried to steal his books. This was probably the best proof any wizard could require that the trolleys were brainless.”

Terry Pratchett book Reaper Man

Source: Reaper Man

Books

“Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.”

Anne Lamott (1954) Novelist, essayist, memoirist, activist

“I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.”

Muhammad Ali book The Soul of a Butterfly

Source: The Soul of a Butterfly: Reflections on Life's Journey

“You might want to lie down. I find that helps when the crushing sense of horrible realization sets in.”

Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes

Magnus to Maia, pg. 274
Source: The Mortal Instruments, City of Ashes (2008)

Lie, Sense

“I believe in reincarnation,” [Bjorn] said.
I KNOW.
“I tried to live a good life. Does that help?”
THAT’S NOT UP TO ME. Death coughed. OF COURSE… SINCE YOU BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION… YOU’LL BE BJORN AGAIN.”

Terry Pratchett book Men at Arms

Source: Men at Arms

Life, Death

“A man's dignity isn't measured by the people he has around him when he's at the peak of his success, but by his ability not to forget those who helped him when his need was greatest.”

Paulo Coelho book The Winner Stands Alone

Source: The Winner Stands Alone

People, Success, Forgetting

“You cannot learn what you are made of if you rely on anyone or anything else to help you.”

Christopher Paolini book Inheritance

Source: Inheritance

Learning

“Virginia Woolf helps. Her novels make mine possible.”

Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“It's so beautiful at this hour. The sun is low, the shadows are long, the air is cold and clean. You won't be awake for another five hours, but I can't help feeling that we're sharing this clear and beautiful morning.”

Jonathan Safran Foer (1977) Novelist

Beauty, Feeling, Sun

“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy

"Is Life Worth Living?"
Variant: Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Source: 1890s, The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Life, Inspirational, Depressing, For Men

“God doesn't care nearly as much about where you have been as He does about where you are and, with His help, where you are willing to go.”

Jeffrey R. Holland (1940) Mormon leader

Source: Created for Greater Things

“There comes a time in every woman's life when the only thing that helps is a glass of champagne.”

Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States

Life, Time

“… a book is not made of sentences laid end to end, but of sentences built, if an image helps, into arcades or domes.”

Virginia Woolf book A Room of One's Own

Source: A Room of One's Own

Books

“For our last number, I'd like to ask your help. Would the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands. And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Royal Variety Performance in London (4 November 1963) attended by Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and Princess Margaret. Of this incident Mark Hertsgaard reports in A Day in the Life: The Music and Artistry of the Beatles (1995): "The remark provoked warm laughter and applause, and was greeted with profound relief by Beatles manager Brian Epstein, who had feared Lennon would make good on his pre-performance threat to tell them to "rattle their fuckin' jewelry."

“He that is thy friend indeed,
He will help thee in thy need:
If thou sorrow, he will weep;
If thou wake, he cannot sleep:
Thus of every grief in heart
He with thee doth bear a part.
These are certain signs to know
Faithful friend from flattering foe.”

William Shakespeare book The Passionate Pilgrim

Source: The Passionate Pilgrim

Faith, Sleep, Heart, Parting

“Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.”

Maria Montessori (1870–1952) Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician

Attributed in Words of Wisdom (1990), edited by William Safire and ‎Leonard Safir, p. 58

Feeling

“I meet a third man he's an old man he trips in the street he falls and I help him up, walk him to the curb. He shakes my hand says keep the faith, young man. I ask him what he means, he says keep running and don't let them catch you.”

James Frey My Friend Leonard

Source: My Friend Leonard

Faith

“yeah me see myself as a revolutionary, would wouldn't want no help and imma take no bribe from no one and fight it single handed with music”

Bob Marley (1945–1981) Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician

Music, Fight

“A storyteller makes up things to help other people; a liar makes up things to help himself.”

Daniel Wallace (1959) American author

Source: The Kings and Queens of Roam

“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 (1850–1924) American writer

Chance

“One of the hardest things in this world is to admit you are wrong. And nothing is more helpful in resolving a situation than its frank admission.”

Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister

World

“The phrase 'Someone ought to do something' was not, by itself, a helpful one. People who used itadded the rider 'and that someone is me'.”

Terry Pratchett book Hogfather

Source: Hogfather

“I call him Pops because he is my true father; my creator. And we've had a special relationship. Whenever I felt lost or needed help or guidance, I could count on Pops.”

Nick Carter (1980) singer from the United States

Source: Facing the Music And Living To Talk About It

“He doesn't need my help coming up with pranks. He's got too many ideas of his own.
- Daja referring to Briar in their first year at Discipline cottage”

Tamora Pierce Tris's Book

Source: Tris's Book

Idea

“Seek always to do some good, somewhere… Even if it's a little thing, so something for those that need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.”

Albert Schweitzer (1875–1965) French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosopher

“There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

Time

“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.”

Abraham Lincoln (1809–1865) 16th President of the United States

“Because the truth is, I do love him. I've loved him without ceasing. I've loved him since that very first day. I loved him even when I swore I didn't. I can't help it. I just do.”

Alyson Nöel book Evermore

Source: Evermore

Love, Truth

“Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and live only for ourselves?
Live your life to help others. Give & live selflessly.”

Joyce Meyer (1943) American author and speaker

“I get by with a little help from my friends.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

Happy, Friendship, For Friend, For Bestfriend

“By acting compassionately, by helping to restore justice and to encourage peace, we are acknowledging that we are all part of one another.”

Ram Dass (1931–2019) American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of the 1971 book Be Here Now

Peace, Justice, Parting

“The key to winning, as always, was looking as if you had every right, nay, duty to be where you were. It helped if you could also suggest in every line of your body that no one else had any rights to be doing anything, anywhere, whatsoever.”

Terry Pratchett book Night Watch

Source: Night Watch

“Do you remember what you said to me once? That you could help me only by loving me? Well-you did love me for a moment; and it helped me. It has always helped me.”

Edith Wharton book The House of Mirth

Source: The House of Mirth

Love

“Everything one has forgotten cries for help in the dream.”

Elias Canetti (1905–1994) Bulgarian-born Swiss and British jewish modernist novelist, playwright, memoirist, and non-fiction writer

Alles, was man vergessen hat, schreit im Traum um Hilfe.
Die Provinz des Menschen : Aufzeichnungen 1942–1972, München 1973, p. 269

Dreams

“People can only live fully by helping others to live. When you give life to friends you truly live. Cultures can only realize their further richness by honoring other traditions. And only by respecting natural life can humanity continue to exist.”

Daisaku Ikeda (1928) Japanese writer

Life, People, Nature

“Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.”

Eckhart Tolle (1948) German writer