Helping Quotes - Page 3

The healthy the strong individual is the one who asks for help when he needs it. Whether he has an abscess on his knee or in his soul.

Do what you can to help people but have the wisdom to accept your limits.

The only gift is a portion of thyself.

I was hungered and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger and ye took me in: I was naked and ye clothed me: I was sick and ye visited me: I was in prison and ye came unto me.

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

Ask your friends for help if you need it. Asking for help can be costly if you don't have friends.

If you feed a man a meal you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food you feed him for a lifetime.

I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important and with that in mind I regard everyone as special.

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring increased happiness to you.

Simply give others a bit of yourself a thoughtful act a helpful idea a word of appreciation a lift over a rough spot a sense of understanding a timely suggestion. You take something out of your mind garnished in kindness out of your heart and put it into the other fellow's mind and heart.

Some live for their own joy and pleasure. Some live to ease the burdens of others.  Then there are those who seem to exist for pain's sake only, that in the end the wrathful fire sent to consume their oppressors will be justified."~ In loving memory of Miss Annabelle Fancher

To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life. Like being blown out as one blows out a light.

Being a single mother should not stop you from helping your children to reach their full potential.

Look at it this way—before any of this wood became parts of the shelves or the desk or the chair, all of it was in pieces—just pieces of wood. But the wood was full of potential. It could be shaped into anything that a carpenter wanted it to be shaped into, turning it into a beautiful finished product. Now, not all carpenters are equal in skill—you know that. If a piece of wood is shaped by a poor carpenter, the finished product will be lacking somehow, in some way."But if that wood is shaped by a master carpenter, then that piece will fit into this world precisely as it’s supposed to fit, whether it be a desktop or a cabinet shelf or a doorstop. And the way that I work wood is the way I try to work with people—with love and attention and caring—so that the wood and the people can reach their potential. And if someone lets you teach them, and is open to what you have to teach, then how can you go wrong?

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

Why do you feel so powerless? Go spend an hour with ants. Each of those black specks you see is a life. One whole life that you can save, take, or affect in some way. You have the power to make so many lives better. It is within you. Don’t lose sight of that.

Pray that you are in the right place, at the right time, to meet the right person, that together you may help one another.

Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.

If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it rediscovering with him the joy excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

Your actions will always be what the world sees, but people who choose to see through God's eyes will always have the compassion to understand why.

If we had no regard for others' feelings or fortune we would grow cold and indifferent to life itself.

One filled with joy preaches without preaching.

Set about doing good to somebody. Put on your hat and go and visit the sick and poor of your neighborhood inquire into their circumstances and minister to their wants. Seek out the desolate and afflicted and oppressed ... I have often tried this method and have always found it the best medicine for a heavy heart.

My happiness derives from knowing the people I love are happy.

Asha stared as Mari for a while, her face once again betraying no emotions. "When we were acolytes, newly come to the Mage Guild Hall on Ihris, Mage Alain once tried to catch me as I fell. He was punished for this." Her gaze went to Alain. "We talked. In the first days. Before such things were driven from us. He was...he could have been...someone...""A friend," Alain said."Friend." Asha seemed to be looking inward now, as if searching for memories lost in time. "What does this mean?"Alain's voice took on more feeling. "It is someone who helps.""Helps?" Asha suddenly inhaled strongly. "I remember. When all else was gone...Alain...helps...helped...me.""We were taught to forget this," Alain said. "Master Mechanic Mari reminded me of what it meant. She has reminded me of many things. She must do something of great importance. Will you help me now, Mage Asha?"Here gaze rested on Alain, then went back to Mari. "This Mechanic helps Mage Alain. I will help, too. I will not betray you to the Guild, Mage Alain.

What its children become that will the community become.

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others but it also becomes richer and happier.

The closer I'm bound in love to you the closer I am to free.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Liberals seem to assume that, if you don’t believe in their particular political solutions, then you don’t really care about the people that they claim to want to help.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

When one's own problems are unsolvable and all best efforts are frustrated it is lifesaving to listen to other people's problems.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

Cruelty is the only sin.

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

We grow by love ... others are our nutriment.

The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about others and serving others.

Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian-to help them is.

Be pretty if you can be witty if you must but be gracious if it kills you.

True religion ... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

Everyone needs help from everyone.

The reality is that doing good unto others actually does more good for you.

We don't need a degree to learn the art of giving. We just need a heart.

Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.

Silence is not certain token That no secret grief is there Sorrow which is never spoken Is the heaviest load to bear.

Help your brother's boat across and your own will reach the shore.

Let our girls feel that we expect something more of them than that they merely look pretty and appear well in society. Teach them that there is a race with special needs which they and only they can help that the world needs and is already asking for their trained and efficient forces.

The fact that we are human beings is infinitely more important than all the peculiarities that distinguish human beings from one another.

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice here by a smiling look there by a kindly word always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.

Be the calm in someone else’s storm.

I won't lie—I don't

Let everyone who has the grace of intelligence fear that because of it he will be judged more heavily if he is negligent.

Like snowflakes the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action.