Helping Quotes - Page 41

The reason 'help' is such a great prayer is that God is the gift of desperation. When you're in despair, you're teachable.

Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.

Life is filled with problems to be solved and tensions to be managed. Sometimes it helps to know which is which.

I like, for instance, 'Serpico.' I enjoyed playing Serpico because Frank Serpico was there. He existed. He was a real life person and I could - I could embody him. I could, you know, I could work and get to know him and have him help me with the text, the script and become him. It's almost like a painter having a model to become.

You can't help the poor by being one of them.

Nor must we always be neutral where our neighbors are concerned: for tho' meddling is a fault, helping is a duty.

Judging people does not help them.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Music is always around, and it helps to heighten any emotion.

It sounds paradoxical to say the attainment of scientific truth has been effected, to a great extent, by the help of scientific errors.

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning person until they learned whether that person fell in through his or her own fault or not.

If you hit bottom, there's a whole lot of people here to help you up

Learning to read in one language helps us read a second language.

Every lawyer, no matter whom they represent, is trying to help someone, whether it's a person, a corporation, a government entity, or a small or big business. To me, lawyering is the height of service - and being involved in this profession is a gift.

He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence but in the very act. For the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.

There is clearly much left to be done, and whatever else we are going to do, we had better get on with it.

Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in

The world is impermanent. [All things change. Knowing this helps you see the end of any difficulty and thereby have hope.]

Helping others, that must be one ingredient to success.

In these times of suffering prayer is of even more help.

Rivalry doesn't help anybody.

I play out my role, I've even been out walking -They tell me that it helps, but I know when I'm beaten.

The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person’s suffering and bring that person joy.

Rules help govern and steer a relationship along, so they're good things. But they become bad things when they become the narrow gate though which the relationship must always pass. When this happens, the rules become the basis for the relationship and, in a sense, become a substitute for the relationship.

Every good work has to face opposition, and the reaction of the opposition offered always helps the work.