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Quotes About Help

Americans that alcoholism is a disease and the alcoholic a sick person who needs help and treatment. The NCA
~ Stanton Peele
Beware of pity.
~ Stefan Zweig
Believe me, we doctors are not so immoderately fond of "good", submissive patients as you may think. They are the ones who least help us to help them. To us, vigorous and even frantic resistance on the part of a patient can only be welcome, for, strangely enough, these apparently unreasonable reactions sometimes have more effect than our most miraculous nostrums.
~ Stefan Zweig
Ceux qui tombent entraînent souvent dans leur chute, ceux qui se portent à leur secours
~ Stefan Zweig
The very resolve to help and from now on to be of use to others inspired me with a kind of enthusiasm. In my elation I felt like singing, like doing something quite crazy. It is never until one realizes that one means something to others that one feels there is any point or purpose in one's own existence.
~ Stefan Zweig
great creative gifts do not mean fulness and giving out of abundance. On the contrary the expression is that of one who seeks help and strives to emancipate himself.
~ Stefan Zweig
I am perhaps excessively independent and generally reclusive, and I hated having to ask people for help, but I could see that this was yet another opportunity to work on a weakness. Free Rider was stretching me in ways I had never anticipated.
~ Steph Davis
The best ideas are the honest ones. Ones born out of personal experience. Ones that originated to help a few but ended up helping many.
~ Simon Sinek
Each man has in him the potential to realize the truth through his own will and endeavour and to help others to realize it.
~ Aung San Suu Kyi
The only measure of your success is in the number of people you have help.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon, Styxx
As sick as it sounds, a reality show might help, actually. At least then people could get the truth.
~ Lindsay Lohan
The truth in acting is that we are all hired help. We are a commodity. There is no difference between being an actor and pork bellies.
~ Lorraine Bracco
Perhaps by sharing my personal weight-loss journey on television, I can help others confront the truth and lies behind obesity.
~ Ruby Gettinger
Night sometimes lends such tragic assistance to catastrophe.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
burned off their mutual contempt by abusing the counter help. My
~ Michael Chabon
You don't seriously believe everybody on the planet should do whatever they want, do you? That would be terrible. These people need help and guidance.
~ Michael Crichton
Remember, Peter: you are some hybrid of friend and hired help. You have latitude, but you can't get uppity.
~ Michael Cunningham
I admit I must have been impossible to live with. It was the self-righteousness of the grieving--my idea that I would betray him if I carried on as before, if I went through the motions of living--that must have driven my family apart from me. I still do not understand those instincts that lead you to flee the ones who want to help you, that lead you to take revenge upon them for a sorrow that is not their fault.
~ Michael Ignatieff
She called the Red Cross, only to find that the Red Cross has no interest in helping, either. (She learned later that they didn't want to offend their Republican donors.)
~ Michael Lewis
Magic obeys only the heart of the one who uses it. Your magic would always be a kind magic, because you are kind, I can tell. Please stay and help us.
~ Michael Morpurgo
Meanwhile with the help of an anecdote I fell in love. Words caravaggio. They have a power.
~ Michael Ondaatje
My heart reaches out to you missionaries. You simply cannot do it alone and do it well. You must have the help of others. That power to help lies within each of us.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I've learned some exciting things - mostly, that people really want to help each other; and that, if you can lay out a vision for them - and that vision is sincere and genuine - they'll get interested.
~ Michael J. Fox