Helpful Quotes

• Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.

  Ric Ocasek

  Volunteer, Needs, Helping

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• Amateurs sit and wait for inspiration, the rest of us just get up and go to work.

  Stephen King

  Inspirational, Writing, Procrastination

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• If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

  Winston Churchill

  Peace, Race, Wish

  Winston Churchill (1961). “The Unwritten Alliance: Speeches 1953 to 1959”

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• To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Successful, Caring, Littles

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2008). “Positive Thinking Every Day: An Inspiration For Each Day of the Year”, Simon and Schuster

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• Helping others is like helping yourself.

  Henry Flagler

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Self Help

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• No one ever succeeds without the help of others.

  Jay Abraham

  Design, Marketing, Succeed

  Twitter post from Jun 25, 2012

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• Friends are helpful not only because they will listen to us, but because they will laugh at us; Through them we learn a little objectivity, a little modesty, a little courtesy; We learn the rules of life and become better players of the game

  Will Durant

  Learning, Player, Games

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• Keep your face to the sunshine and you cannot see a shadow.

  Helen Keller

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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• Connect, create meaning, make a difference, matter, be missed.

  Seth Godin

  Differences, Marketing, Making A Difference

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• It's okay to make mistakes. Mistakes are our teachers -- they help us to learn.

  John Bradshaw

  Education, Teacher, Mistake

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• Trust and faith bring joy to life and help relationships grow to their maximum potential.

  Joyce Meyer

  Life, Relationship, Faith

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• True compassion means not only feeling another's pain but also being moved to help relieve it.

  Daniel Goleman

  Pain, Mean, Helping Others

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• Help young people. Help small guys. Because small guys will be big. Young people will have the seeds you bury in their minds, and when they grow up, they will change the world.

  Jack Ma

  Growing Up, Business, People

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  Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

  Desmond Tutu

  Hope, Light, Darkness

  "The Priest". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. March 4, 2010.

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• No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Life, Country, Often Is

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• It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Friendship, Inspiration, Pockets

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• If you follow your heart, if you listen to your gut, and if you extend your hand to help another, not for any agenda, but for the sake of humanity, you are going to find the truth.

  Erin Brockovich

  Inspirational, Truth, Heart

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• Don't shut down your emotions. Embrace them. Your emotions are your internal compass telling you whether or not you are on track. Use them to help cultivate your passions or motivate you to change situations and circumstances that hold you back from achieving your goals.

  Jillian Michaels

  Motivational, Change, Passion

  FaceBook post by Jillian Michaels from Mar 03, 2011

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  Do not be embarrassed by your failures, learn from them and start again.

  Richard Branson

  Inspirational, Success, Business

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• If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

  Tony Benn

  Money, People, Political

  "Sicko". Documentary, Drama, www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• Why blame the dark for being dark? It is far more helpful to ask why the light isn’t as bright as it could be.

  Rob Bell

  Dark, Light, Deep Thought

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• The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.

  Clarence Darrow

  Fate, Dirt, Sides

  Clarence Darrow (2015). “The Story of My Life”, p.411, Lulu.com

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• Pity was meant to be a spur that drives joy to help misery. But it can be used the wrong way round. It can be used for a kind of blackmailing. Those who choose misery can hold joy up to ransom, by pity.

  C. S. Lewis

  Choices, Joy, Ransom

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• The best thing you can do for the poor is not to be one of them.

  Reverend Ike

  Poor, Ministers, Needy

  "The golden gospel of Reverend Ike" by Clayton Riley, www.nytimes.com. March 9, 1975.

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• The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

  Paul Newman

  Good Night, Healing, Sleep

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