Helpful Quotes - Page 37

• 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

  Attitude, Soul, Feelings

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2011). “The Will to Power”, p.654, Vintage

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• Be a helpful friend, and you will become a green tree with always new fruit, always deeper journeys into love.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Journey, Tree

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• Confronted by an absolutely infuriating review, it is sometimes helpful for the victim to do a little personal research on the critic. Is there any truth to the rumor that he had no formal education beyond the age of eleven? In any event, is he able to construct a simple English sentence? Do his participles dangle? When moved to lyricism, does he write "I had a fun time"? Was he ever arrested for burglary? I don't know that you will prove anything this way, but it is perfectly harmless and quite soothing.

  Jean Kerr

  Fun, Writing, Acceptance

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• It is easy to be swept away by some overwhelming feeling, so it's helpful to remember that any stressful feeling is like a compassionate alarm clock that says, "You're caught in the dream."

  Byron Katie

  Dream, Stress, Feelings

  Byron Katie, Stephen Mitchell (2008). “Loving What Is: How Four Questions Can Change Your Life”, p.6, Random House

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• No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Travel, Attitude, Would Be

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• Librarians have always been among the most thoughtful and helpful people. They are teachers without a classroom.

  Willard Scott

  Teacher, Book, Reading

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• All we have to do is to receive what we are given...We are given the naturalness to love someone, to be calm in crisis, to ignore self-defeating suggestions, to be pleasant, forgiving, tender, helpful, unworried, brave, energetic.

  Vernon Howard

  Self, Giving, Brave

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• It is good from time to time to recall all those big and little reasons why you wanted to quit smoking in the first place. Reading this blog once in a while might also be helpful

  Zig Ziglar

  Encouragement, Reading, Smoking

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• Then, without realizing it, you try to improve yourself at the start of each new day; of course, you achieve quite a lot in the course of time. Anyone can do this, it costs nothing and is certainly very helpful. Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that a quiet conscience makes one strong.

  Anne Frank

  Wisdom, Strong, Integrity

  Anne Frank (1959). “The Works of Anne Frank”, Greenwood Press

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• The influence of a beautiful, helpful character is contagious, and may revolutionize a whole town.

  Graham Collier

  Beautiful, Character, Volunteer

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• If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful.

  Nhat Hanh

  Heart, Love Is, Miracle

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2005). “Wisdom from Peace Is Every Step: The Path of Mindfulness in Everyday Life”, p.69, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.

  John Cleese

  Teacher, Light, Trying

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• Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle, sick, considerate, funny, stupid, healthy, greedy, beautiful, lazy, responsive, foolish, sharing, pressured, intimate, hedonistic, industrious, manipulative, insightful, capricious, wise, selfish, kind or sacrificed. Life does, however, require us to live with the consequences of our choices.

  Richard Bach

  Funny, Beautiful, Wise

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• When you choose to view your stress response as helpful, you create the biology of courage.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Stress, Views, Biology

  "How to make stress your friend". TED Talk, www.ted.com. June 2013.

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• It's about using the right tools, with the right triggers, within a proper marketing framework

  Vishen Lakhiani

  Marketing, Tools, Triggers

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• You can't please everyone, so proudly exclude people.

  Derek Sivers

  People, Marketing, Please

  Derek Sivers (2015). “Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur”, p.8, Penguin

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• Expect to succeed even before you start. All winners, no matter what their game, start with the expectations that they are going to succeed. Winners say, "I want to do this and I CAN do this", not "I would like to do this, but I don't think I can."

  Denis Waitley

  Motivational, Thinking, Games

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• We need to tell people not to be helpful. Trying to be helpful and giving advise are really ways to control others. ... Advice, recommendations, and obvious actions are exactly what increase the likelihood that tomorrow will be just like yesterday.

  Peter Block

  Learning, Knowledge, Yesterday

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• The art of being helpful is behaving as if everything we do matters - because we never know which things might.

  Gloria Steinem

  Art, Might, Matter

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• He's Wayne Rooney - a good character and a lively character,He's been very helpful and understanding and has certainly made me feel welcome at international level and on club duty. He's a fantastic player and you can only learn from him. It's great to have him around.

  Phil Jones

  Character, Player, Understanding

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• Leaders who refuse to listen, will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing helpful to say

  Andy Stanley

  Leadership, People, Refuse

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• The purpose of life is to listen - to yourself, to your neighbor, to your world and to God and, when the time comes, to respond in as helpful a way as you can find ... from within and without.

  Fred Rogers

  God, Purpose, World

  Fred Rogers (2006). “Wisdom from the World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.83, Peter Pauper Press, Inc.

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• I want people to remember me as someone whose life has been helpful to humanity.

  Thomas Sankara

  People, Humanity, Want

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• It was helpful to be able to call a lawyer...it turns out, that not only did they help me, but they really helped the whole community.

  David Allen

  Community, Able, Helping

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• There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest numbers of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest, who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.

  John Ruskin

  Country, Mean, Men

  John Ruskin (2007). “Unto This Last”, p.90, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

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