Helping Quotes - Page 49

Most so-called women's work is not recognized as real activity. One reason for this attitude may be that such work is usually associated with helping others' development, rather than with self-enhancement or self-employment.

Knowledge is a terrible burden. It may help you, but it might also destroy you.

What can I do to help thee?" he asked. "Believe there is a tomorrow.

We have the Noble Desire to help others and benefit the world, without expecting any return or recognition. What makes us great is not our knowledge, skill, money, or power. What makes us great is not our knowledge, skill, money, or power. What makes us truly great is this noble desire, this passion that transcends all separation, goes beyond one's limitations, and wants to hug others and embrace the whole world. This is not something that we need to learn, because we already have it. It just needs to be acknowledged and awakened.

Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Deadlines aren't bad. They help you organize your time. They help you set priorities. They make you get going when you might not feel like it.

Helping begins with listening.

He climbs highest who helps another up.

It is when you have done your work honestly, when you have contributed your share to the common fund that you begin to live.

You never help anyone by being a sounding board for their problems or complaints.

Because I survived, I must do everything possible to help others.

Whoever survives a test, whatever it may be, must tell the story. That is his duty.

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

Apparently vodka helps flowers last longer when they're dying. But you can put vodka in anything and it'll make it better.

Don’t be discouraged at seemingly overwhelming odds in your desire to live and to help others live God’s commandments. At times it may seem like David trying to fight Goliath. But remember, David did win.

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.

I'm not a great believer in self-help.

The things that motivate us are to help other people, to feel that we're useful, to feel that we're getting better, to feel that we are kind of living to our potential, to get a sense of meaning. All of those things are positive.

If we can't help our family, who are we going to help?

Being in the wrong place never helps you do the right thing

Service-learning is a particularly fertile way of involving young people in community service, because it ties helping others to what they are learning in the classroom. It enables them to apply academic disciplines to practical, everyday problems. In the process, it provides a compelling answer to the adolescent's perennial question, 'Why do I need to learn this stuff?

Helping someone come to a saving knowledge of Christ is the greatest achievement possible.

My dresses help women discover figures they didn't know they had.

When God made up this world of ours, He made it long and wide, And meant that it should shelter all, And none should be denied.