Quotes
Quotes about Help
In giving advice, seek to help, not please, a friend.
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.
A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.
Books are the compasses and telescopes and sextants and charts which other men have prepared to help us navigate the dangerous seas of human life.
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.
Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him.
The poet judges not as a judge judges but as the sun falling around a helpless thing.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves.
The rule of accuracy: When working toward the solution of a problem it always helps if you know the answer.
I can't help the look of accusation in your eyes
A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left.
If you watch how nature deals with adversity, continually renewing itself, you can't help but learn.
A blank helpless sort of face, rather like a rose just before you drench it with D.D.T.
Great Spirit, help me never to judge another until I have walked in his moccasins.
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
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. - The Business of Life.
My importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my importance to myself is tremendous. I am all I have to work with, to play with, to suffer and to enjoy. It is not the eyes of others that I am wary of, but of my own. I do not intend to let myself down more than I can possibly help, and I find that the fewer illusions I have about myself or the world around me, the better company I am for myself.
We have not yet reached the goal but.. we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty shall be banished from this nation.
Stubbornness does have its helpful features. You always know what you're going to be thinking tomorrow.
As to diseases, make a habit of two things - to help, or at least, to do no harm. - Epidemics.
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.
