Top 42 Help Those Who Help Themselves Quotes
#1. 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
#2. The idea that the government - any government - had a responsibility to help support those of able body who couldn't support themselves was alien. That was charity, and charity was the province of churches or local associations and in no way the responsibility of government.
Zachary Karabell
#3. Adolescence is a dreadful period. We tend to notice those youngsters who misbehave and call attention to themselves, but there are others, equally miserable, who receive no help simply because they are silent. (41)
Stephen Dobyns
#4. Those who seek liberation for themselves alone cannot become fully enlightened. Though it may be said that one who is not already liberated cannot liberate others, the very process of forgetting oneself to help others is in itself liberating
Muso Soseki
#5. God rescues sinners, losers, victims - those who know they can't help themselves.
Preston Sprinkle
#6. 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
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others.
Malcolm X
#10. The Lord's way to help those in temporal need requires people who out of love have consecrated themselves and what they have to God and to His work.
Henry B. Eyring
#11. In all you do, speak up for the human rights of others. Become the voice for those who face oppression and can't speak for themselves. Each time you do ... you help humanity take steps to a brighter, peaceful world.
Timothy Pina
#12. Egotism is more like an offense, than a crime; though it is allowable to speak of yourself, provided nothing is advanced in favor; but I cannot help suspecting that those who abuse themselves are, in reality, angling for approbation.
Johann Georg Ritter Von Zimmermann
#14. The gods help those who help themselves, and my word, didn't I help myself.
Terry Pratchett
#15. God help those who have the wit to quote themselves, that they may reap the harvest of their ideas.
Sandra Staas
#16. God helps those who realize that they can't help themselves.
Preston Sprinkle
#17. 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
#19. I think that's one of the only reasons God created celebrities. To help those who can't help themselves.
Milla Jovovich
#20. Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.
James Cook
#21. God doesn't help those who help themselves; He helps those who can't help themselves!
Joyce Meyer
#22. It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
Taylor Caldwell
#23. The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
P.T. Barnum
#24. Chance never helps those who do not help themselves.
Sophocles
#25. You can't hate those who are harming themselves. Instead you pity them and try to help them if you can.
Darren Shan
#26. 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
#27. Those who ask for help are often those who have failed to do something for themselves.
Neil Strauss
#28. 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
#29. Don't count on others for help. In the end each of us is in this alone. The survivors are those who know how to look out for themselves.
Drew Karpyshyn
#31. It's not 'those who help themselves' whom God helps; it's those who humble themselves.
C.J. Mahaney
#32. 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
#33. I think it's very important to support those who can't help themselves - children, animals - and especially to do so in your own neighborhood.
Lori Foster
#35. Fate helps those who help themselves;
God helps those who help others.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#37. Gerti didn't ask for help." Miri swallowed and tried to calm her quavering voice. "It was my fault."
"So it was. Now you all have learned that those who speak out of turn choose punishment for themselves and anyone they speak to."
"So if I speak to you, Tutor Olana, will you get the lashes?
Shannon Hale
#38. I've been a Republican all my life because I embrace the conservative values of hard work, personal freedom, less government and fewer taxes. But I also believe in compassion, inclusion, and helping those who want to help themselves.
Lionel Sosa
#39. I know no man who has any monopoly upon the wisdom of this universe. It belongs to those who can use it to help themselves and others.
L. Ron Hubbard
#40. God helps only those who are prepared and determined to help themselves.
Adolf Hitler
#41. In practice this means that God helps those who help themselves . Thus
Max Weber
#42. Fortune has been considered the guardian divinity of fools; and, on this score, she has been accused of blindness; but it should rather be adduced as a proof of her sagacity, when she helps those who cannot help themselves.
Charles Caleb Colton