Helping People Quotes

A little help is worth a great deal of pity.

Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.

Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

With every deed you are sowing a seed though the harvest you may not see.

What its children become that will the community become.

Live and let live is not enough live and help live is not too much.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian-to help them is.

What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts stamped imprinted eternally seen.

Where our bread is concerned it is a material matter. Where our neighbor's bread is concerned it is a spiritual matter.

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

Teaching was the best way to learn.

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

If you feed a man a meal you only feed him for a day-but if you teach a man to grow food you feed him for a lifetime.

Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him but to call out his best energy that he may be able to bear the burden.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

A wise parent humors the desire for independent action so as to become the friend and advisor when his absolute rule shall cease.

Hold up to him his better self his real self that can dare and do and win out. ... People radiate what is in their minds and in their hearts.

The manager cannot share his power with division superintendent or foreman or workman but he can give them opportunities for developing their power.

To know one's self is wisdom but to know one's neighbor is genius.

I know that everyone brings to the work his or her own experiences and background and may interpret the piece like a Rorschach in their own way.

I believe every person has the ability to achieve something important and with that in mind I regard everyone as special.

Like snowflakes the human pattern is never cast twice. We are uncommonly and marvelously intricate in thought and action.

Every human being is trying to say something to others. Trying to cry out I am alive notice me! Speak to me! Confirm that I am important that I matter!

The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.

Connected knowers do not measure other people's words by some impersonal standard. Their purpose is not to judge but to understand.

Tyranny and anarchy are alike incompatible with freedom security and the enjoyment of opportunity.

Unless one's philosophy is all-inclusive nothing can be understood.

Nature is just enough but men and women must comprehend and accept her suggestions.

The motto should not be: Forgive one another rather understand one another.

To have one's individuality completely ignored is like being pushed quite out of life. Like being blown out as one blows out a light.

It's funny how your initial approach to a person can determine your feelings toward them no matter what facts develop later on.

Nobody really knows Indians who cheat them and treat them badly.

Africa has her mysteries and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

Truth has never been can never be contained in any one creed or system.

Sons branch out but one woman leads to another.

It's really important that as women we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

If my hands are fully occupied in holding on to something I can neither give nor receive.

We are rich only through what we give and poor only through what we refuse.

[Our children] had the privilege of growing up where they'd raised a lot of food. They were never hungry. They could share their food with people. And so you share your lives with people.

For we must share if we would keep that blessing from above Ceasing to give we cease to have such is the law of love.

An unshared life is not living. He who shares does not lessen but great-ens his life.

Sharing what you have is more important than what you have.

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

A cup that is already full cannot have more added to it. In order to receive the further good to which we are entitled we must give of that which we have.

You can give without loving but you cannot love without giving.

Measure thy life by loss instead of gain Not by the wine drunk but by the wine poured forth.

Be pretty if you can be witty if you must but be gracious if it kills you.