Helping Vs Enabling Quotes

#1. Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.

Terry Pratchett

#2. In the '50s and '60s, a family's first child went into the priesthood, the second went into the military, and the third child was an idiot and wound up in advertising.

Jerry Della Femina

#3. I could give you a thiught sheath to put that in,"Isabelle offered. "I got tons."
"CERTAINLY NOT," said Simon.
Clary shot him an irritated look. "Thanks, but I'm not really a thigh sheath kind of girl,"
-pg. 214

Cassandra Clare

#4. The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are ... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.

Frank Gaffney

#5. When you give people who are being financially responsible money, you are enabling them to continue a bad habit. So you are actually helping by saying, "Love you but no."

Michelle Singletary

#6. Things have a way of falling into place.

Nora Roberts

#7. We are the measure of all things.
And the beauty of our creation, of our art
is proportional to the beauty of ourselves
of our souls.

Jonas Mekas