Help Quotes
For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile nothing endures except the sense of difference.Alan Valentine
In the Norse mythology Loki originally was on the side of the rest of the gods, helping them once or twice using a particularly nast forms of trickery. He was a cunning negotiator with a talent for technicalities. He was sort of the Norse equivalent of a lawyer, no doubt the reason they tied him down in a pit dripping acidic venom on him.Martin Terman
Courageous risks are life - Giving, they help you grow, make you brave, and better than you think you are.Joan L. Curcio
Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim.William Feathe
How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire.Belva Plain
When you helped somebody, right away you were responsible for that person. And things always followed for which you were never prepared.Martha Brooks, True Confessions of a Heartless Girl
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 slave has but one master, the ambitious man has as many as can help in making his fortune.Jean De La Bruyere
Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon.John Berge
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
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
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself.Bailey
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
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.Joseph Addison, The Spectator, July 12, 1711
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
Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.George Herbert Walker Bush
A man never stands as tall as when he kneels to help a child.Knights of Pythagoras
In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.John C. Dvorak
The best helping hand that you will ever receive is the one at the end of your own arm.Fred Dehne
The measure of a society is found in how they treat their weakest and most helpless citizens. As Americans, we are blessed with circumstances that protect our human rights and our religious freedom, but for many people around the world, deprivation and persecution have become a way of life.Jimmy Carte
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
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.William James
You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself.John Ruskin
Our friends should be companions who inspire us, who help us rise to our best.Joseph B. Wirthlin
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.Mahatma Gandhi
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it.Robert Heinlein, Time Enough for Love (1972)
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life IS worth living and your belief will help create the fact.James Truslow Adams
Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.Jane E. Brody
Girls should be brought up to be comrades and helpers, not to be dolls. They should take a real and not a visionary share in the welfare of the nation.Lord Robert Baden - Powell
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
God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, thehelpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos; He will set them above their betters.H. L. Mencken
The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.Hubert H. Humphrey
He helps others most, who shows them how to help themselves.A. P. Gouthey
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.Charles Dudley
For too long, many nations, including my own, tolerated, even excused, oppression in the Middle East in the name of stability. Oppression became common, but stability never arrived. We must take a different approach. We must help the reformers of the Middle East as they work for freedom, and strive to build a community of peaceful, democratic nations.George W. Bush, Speech to UN General Assembly, September 21, 2004
Most everything in my brain, someone else helped put there.Unknown
You can get everything in life you want if you help enough other people get what they want.Zig Ziglar, See you at the Top
