Quotes on Helping

Let us encourage the generosity which is typical of the young and help them to work actively in building a better world. Youth do not solely need material things. Above all, they need to have those non-material values which are the spiritual heart of a people ... spirituality, generosity, solidarity, perseverance, fraternity, and joy.

No matter what great things you accomplish, somebody helps you.

The only way to reach the mountain peaks of life is to forget about self and help other people reach greater heights.

Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it.

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.

Why stand we here trembling around, calling on God for help, and not ourselves, in whom God dwells?

America is an unlikely place - a country built on defiance of the odds; on a belief in the impossible. And I remind you of this because as you set out to live your own stories of success and achievement, it's now your turn to help keep it this way.

The trouble with most therapy is that it helps you feel better. But you don't get better. You have to back it up with action, action, action.

I probably have traveled and walked into more variety stores than anybody in America. I am just trying to get ideas, any kind of ideas that will help our company. Most of us don't invent ideas. We take the best ideas from someone else.

We have learned how to develop five-minute and even one-minute managers. But we would do better to ask ourselves what it takes to be an executive who helps build a better future.

I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs. My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some of the oversight, increased some of the safeguards. But my assessment, and my team's assessment was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks. In the abstract, you can complain about 'Big Brother' and how this is a potential program run amok. But when you actually look at the details, then, I think we've struck the right balance.

The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.

Technology gives us power, but it does not and cannot tell us how to use that power. Thanks to technology, we can instantly communicate across the world, but it still doesn't help us know what to say.

I think that the greatest education in the world is the education which helps one to be able to do the right things at the time it has to be done.

External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity.

No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth.

Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch, which ought to be applied as sparingly as possible. I dislike the stuff. I do not believe in it, for its own sake, at all... My lawgivers are Erasmus and Montaigne, not Moses and St Paul. My temple stands not upon Mount Moriah but in the Elysian Field where even the immoral are admitted. My motto is 'Lord, I disbelieve - help thou my unbelief.

We hear in these days of scientific enlightenment a great deal of discussion about the efficacy of Prayer. Many reasons are given why we should not pray. Others give reasons why we should pray. Very little is said of the reason we do pray. The reason is simple: We pray because we cannot help praying.

Lord, help me to remember that there are many ways to rejoice in any kind of day you make for us.

Thinking about suicide is a potent consolation: it helps us to get through many a bad night.