Top 100 Help Themselves Quotes
#1. The poor need the motivation, the incentives, the skills, the education so they can help themselves.
John M. Perkins
#2. I have worked enough and I am happy to be touring the country speaking about living with MS to give people inspiration and motivation to help themselves.
Teri Garr
#3. What I have absolutely no sympathy with is the legislator, the man who seeks, for his own profit, to exploit the weaknesses of those who are unable to help themselves and then to fasten some moral superscription upon it. This I loathe so much that I cannot conceivably explain how much it is.
Malcolm Lowry
#4. We believe that in times like these we should turn to each other, not on each other. We believe that government has a role to play, not in solving every problem in everybody's life but in helping people help themselves to the American dream. That's what Democrats believe.
Deval Patrick
#5. See how people smile when they see a butterfly? They can't help themselves. Butterflies are joy with wings.
Mary Alice Monroe
#6. You never can truly help people by helping them, but you can help people by teaching them how to help themselves.
Debasish Mridha
#7. Whatever help we may want from the international community now or in the future, we want to make sure that this help is tailored to help our people to help themselves.
Aung San Suu Kyi
#8. I think that if more people saw more things, they wouldn't be able to really help themselves.
Angelina Jolie
#9. There is no evidence to suggest that God helps people. There is, however, ample evidence that people can help themselves and each other.
Armin Navabi
#10. No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
Samuel Johnson
#11. This is why people cry at the movies: because everybody's doomed. No one in a movie can help themselves in any way. Their fate has already staked its claim on them from the moment they appear onscreen.
John Darnielle
#12. That's what it's about, how society changes people but people can also change society. It only takes a few people to do things and help themselves instead of sitting around on their asses. She has a very global outlook on life and all sorts of things.
Mary Hansen
#13. I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us.
Louisa May Alcott
#14. The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves.
- Lord Commander Mormont
George R R Martin
#15. Faith without works is like Peanut Butter without Jelly, Ham without Cheese, and Kool aid without Sugar. God helps those that help themselves
Autumn Crum
#16. Republicans say they don't believe in government. Sure they do. They believe in government to help themselves and their powerful friends.
Elizabeth Warren
#17. I want to help people help themselves, not have government tell people what to do. I just don't think it's the role of the United States to walk into a country and say, we do it this way, so should you.
George W. Bush
#18. Did she help people?" Miss Level added.
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"She made them help one another, she said. "She made them help themselves."
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Miss Level sighed. "Not many of us are that good," she said.
Terry Pratchett
#19. God rescues sinners, losers, victims - those who know they can't help themselves.
Preston Sprinkle
#20. Everyone must be proactive and do all they can to help themselves to stay employed.
Stephen Covey
#21. My challenge to all Republicans is to invent the systems and approaches to help people help themselves.
Newt Gingrich
#22. As wonderful as charity is, that money runs out. It's not sustainable. It lasts for a certain period of time and it's gone. What i really think people need is the opportunity to help themselves.
Emma Watson
#23. The [stock] market,like the Lord, helps those who help themselves. But, unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.
Warren Buffett
#24. I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is not in their power to help themselves.
John Burns
#25. Since, as is well know, God helps those who help themselves, presumably the Devil helps all those, and only those, who don't help themselves. Does the Devil help himself?
Douglas Hofstadter
#26. Our Heavenly Father did not form us and place us on this planet so that we would manage on our own. Neither does the popular saying, God helps those who help themselves, hold any water. The Truth is we all need help. Those who look strong and contained on the outside may not be so on the inside.
Eve Juurik
#27. The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves.
Theodore Roosevelt
#28. Animals have always been a passion of mine, being able to help them because they can't help themselves, and I think that people have treated them so badly over the years and it's just not fair. It's something I feel like I can help make a difference.
Shannon Elizabeth
#29. Now on the other hand, if someone is selling a product, opening a dance studio, or has some other aim to help themselves, then I tend to look askance at some of these strange stories from outer space.
Robert Stack
#30. People, by their very nature, don't want to help you. They want to help themselves. You need to find a way to help them help themselves.
Aaron Goldman
#31. There is never any God in a country where men will not help themselves.
Joseph Conrad
#32. When we stand up for America, we stand up for what America stands for, which is a safety net for our seniors and really helping our families be able to help themselves.
Barbara Mikulski
#33. One day people will come back. they won't be able to help themselves. People need music and dance and beautiful things. They forget sometimes, but not forever. You'll see. One day, this will be a magical place again. With music and dance and good times and people celebrating.
Nadia Aguiar
#34. Help people help themselves. Don't judge, just help. In this process, be cautious to simply point them in the right direction and help them get moving. Don't make your journey theirs, nor make their journey yours.
Steve Maraboli
#36. What I'm trying to tell you is that there are men who are possessed by an urge so strong to do some particular thing that they can't help themselves, they've got to do it. They're prepared to sacrifice everything to satisfy their yearning.
W. Somerset Maugham
#39. I get the feeling a lot of politicians are there to help themselves financially, first and foremost.
Gordon Strachan
#40. Everything in life that's meaningful takes effort - takes vitality. You have to work at it. And God helps them who help themselves ... help you.
Jack LaLanne
#41. Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
#42. My fans are sexy. Yes they are. They can't help themselves. It is just how they do.
Justin Bieber
#43. The gods help those who help themselves, and my word, didn't I help myself.
Terry Pratchett
#44. Artists cannot help themselves; they are driven to create by their nature, but for that nature to truly thrive, we need to preserve the precious habitat in which that beauty can flourish.
William Morris
#45. God helps those who realize that they can't help themselves.
Preston Sprinkle
#47. There's a duality of a guy calling on God: 'Where are you when I need you?' and then, at the same time, 'God helps those who help themselves.' I think that contradiction does exist in all of us, those of faith and those who profess to have no faith.
Joe Carnahan
#48. Because the dying also are unable to help themselves, we should relieve them of discomfort and anxiety, and assist them, as far as we can, to die with composure.
Sogyal Rinpoche
#50. The world's proverb is, "God help the poor, for the rich can help themselves;" but to our mind, it is just the rich who have most need of Heaven's help. Dives in scarlet is worse off than Lazarus in rags, unless Divine love shall uphold him.
Charles Spurgeon
#51. I guess we ought to be tolerant," Lianne said. "They're just nasty because they need help. Everybody ought to be allowed to try and help themselves."
No, ma'am, that aint true," Sarah said. "Some people ought to be shot on sight.
Jack Butler
#52. Miserly curmudgeons may help themselves, but considerate and generous believers the Lord will help. As you have done unto others, so will the Lord do unto you. Empty your pockets.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#53. Making women the sexual gatekeepers and telling men they just can't help themselves not only drives home the point that women's sexuality is unnatural, but also sets up a disturbing dynamic in which women are expected to be responsible for men's sexual behavior.
Jessica Valenti
#54. It is no kindness to treat unhappy people as helpless, hopeless, or inadequate, no matter what has happened to them. Kindness is having faith in the truth and that people can handle it and use it for their benefit. True compassion is helping people help themselves.
William Glasser
#55. Capacity building originally meant helping people to help themselves. Now it means required training to deliver imposed policies.
Andy Hargreaves
#56. Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do ... The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves.
Baltasar Gracian
#57. Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it wouldn't let me. And then I felt sorry for God because I understood his frustration. Sometimes when people offer a helping hand, it gets pushed away. People always want to help themselves first.
Cecelia Ahern
#58. I think that's one of the only reasons God created celebrities. To help those who can't help themselves.
Milla Jovovich
#59. You know, Castle, like anyone else, is a human being first. If you take a human being - especially a vain one like 'Castle' -and you bring in a gorgeous woman and have sparks fly, who can help themselves? What are you gonna do? Sparks happen!
Nathan Fillion
#60. Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.
James Cook
#61. I don't understand how a person won't do ANYTHING to help themselves but WILL get upset with someone else for not giving them the help the EXPECT or feel ENTITLED to. #VICTIM #TakeResponsibility #GrowUP #No1owesUshit #lifegoeson #LiveLearnLove #CheLeSmith
Michele Bardsley
#62. God doesn't help those who help themselves; He helps those who can't help themselves!
Joyce Meyer
#63. It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
Taylor Caldwell
#64. We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.
Lou Holtz
#65. The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
P.T. Barnum
#66. If living by these sets of morals and principles and wanting to help better my land, better my country, my community, my team, my environment and helping the next person help themselves, if that's considered crazy, then I'm a crazy.
Luke Scott
#67. The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.
John F. Kennedy
#68. The aim of the Church is to help the people to help themselves. Work is to be re-enthroned as the ruling principle of the lives of our Church membership
Heber J. Grant
#69. Problems can only be solved by the people who have them. You have to try and coax them and love them into seeing ways in which they can help themselves.
John Harvey-Jones
#70. The gods help them who help themselves.
Aesop
#71. Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
Sophocles
#72. They are so busy, Julia, trying to help the world that they've forgotten how to help themselves. They've forgotten how to be happy, and it is a happy man or woman who helps the world most.
Christopher Pike
#73. In addition to shaming sexual-assault victims, positioning abstinence as women's domain further promotes the notion that it's women's morality that's on the line when it comes to sex, men just can't help themselves, so their ethics are safe from criticism.
Jessica Valenti
#74. There were some things Reagan liked that I liked. The main component was that people have to talk to each other and help themselves.
Neil Young
#75. It's very important to balance things; it's imperative to do something for the society, and women in particular, and help women who aren't in position to help themselves.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#76. The gods help them that help themselves.
Aesop
#77. Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land.
Plutarch
#78. I choose free libraries as the best agencies for improving the masses of the people, because they give nothing for nothing. They only help those who help themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
#79. We're helping those children who cannot help themselves and giving a push to those who can. We've done it by working together for a common purpose. I see no reason to stop now.
Jane D. Hull
#81. My goal has always been to help people help themselves. Your body is your most priceless possession; you've go to take care of it!
Jack LaLanne
#82. To tell men that they cannot help themselves is to fling them into recklessness and despair.
James Anthony Froude
#83. The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves.
Horace Mann
#84. We often have an exaggerated sense of what nonprofits and governments are doing to help the poor, but the really inspiring thing is how much the poor are doing to help themselves.
Katherine Boo
#86. There are some people who you've got to stay away from. They can't help themselves; they are just genetically programmed to screw you over.
Mindy Quigley
#87. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. Craster sprawls in his loft even now, stinking of wine and lost to sense. On his board below lies a sharp new axe. Were it me, I'd name it Answered Prayer' and make an end.
George R R Martin
#88. There is far too much of the feeding-bottle in education and young people ought to be supplied with good intellectual food and then left to help themselves.
Thomas Huxley
#89. One of the greatest things you can do to help others is not just to share and give what you have, but to help them discover what they have within themselves to help themselves.
Rita Zahara
#90. It's not 'those who help themselves' whom God helps; it's those who humble themselves.
C.J. Mahaney
#91. There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.
Andrew Carnegie
#92. Never believe that animals suffer less than humans. Pain is the same for them that it is for us. Even worse, because they cannot help themselves.
Louis J. Camuti
#93. Addiction is an illness, and it pains me to see people forced to live this way because they're unable to help themselves.
Colleen Hoover
#94. Real assistance is to help people to help themselves. We can't do everything for everybody, but there is room for all who try to make it.
Gerald R. Ford
#95. Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.
Peter Hargreaves
#96. Republicans just can't help themselves. They get in front of a live microphone and within a few sentences are rocketing down the swiftest and most direct route to the all-you-can-eat comedian-and-talk-show-host buffet.
Henry Rollins
#97. It's hard to help those who don't want to help themselves."
"Someone who wants to help himself is possibly not the one who most needs help from others," Elsa objects.
Fredrik Backman
#98. It's just a lot safer to be an incumbent. So I think they have used the campaign finance reforms. They have passed laws that will help themselves stay in office. And I think that's one of the flaws that we do have in the system.
David Brooks
#99. Of him; spectators in back rows stood up, not to miss a hair of him; people on the floor of the court, laid their hands on the shoulders of the people before them, to help themselves, at anybody's cost, to a view of him -
Charles Dickens
#100. He even said you once threw al your husband's clothes onto the street and invited the neighbors to help themselves!" says Ellen with a bright laugh. "He's got such an imagination!"
My face flames. Damn. I thought he was asleep when I did that.
Sophie Kinsella
