Top 29 Quotes About Helpful Words
#1. It falls to you, Sancho, if you wish to take revenge for the affront committed against your donkey; I shall assist you from here with helpful words and advice.
Miguel De Cervantes Saavedra
#2. Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season.
Louisa May Alcott
#3. This is a helpful working definition of pride. Pride is thinking much about one's self and much of one's self. To borrow words from Augustine, pride is "the love of self, even to the contempt of God."30
Brian G. Hedges
#4. I think it's more helpful to keep your books sort of a singular focus. Get it said, get it said well, fascinate people with your words and then write another book.
Larry Winget
#5. I remember my manager telling me, 'Be myself, be humble, keep rooted, keep God first'. Those words were very helpful.
John Boyega
#6. No, good my lord; let's fight with gentle words Till time lend friends, and friends their helpful swords.
William Shakespeare
#7. But this momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.
Thomas Jefferson
#8. Our culture's quest to hide death behind a facade of denial has made fools and pretended immortals of us all. Perhaps it would be more helpful and liberating to begin each day by repeating the words of Crazy Horse, Today is a good day to die.
Richard Paul Evans
#9. There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.'
Joaquin Andujar
#10. She'd swallowed it whole and pretended it meant nothing, and therefore it had come to mean everything.
Liane Moriarty
#11. Talk like an ambassador (Eph 4:29-30).
1)Consider the person ("only what is helpful for building others up")
2) Consider the problem ("according to their needs")
3) Consider the process ("that it may benefit those who listen")
Timothy S. Lane
#12. [Mr. Collins] began by stating that he could find no words to express his shock and abhorrence, and then proceeded to find a great number, few of them appropriate and none of them helpful.
P.D. James
#13. We keep on being told that religion, whatever its imperfections, at least instills morality. On every side, there is conclusive evidence that the contrary is the case and that faith causes people to be more mean, more selfish, and perhaps above all, more stupid.
Christopher Hitchens
#14. A lot of the time writers are just sponges ... for what's around them, and so books are helpful for focusing your mind and literally putting it into words.
Marcus Mumford
#15. My poems were just kind of all over the place. They had no focus, no location, nothing. Kind of a series of images that could have been set anywhere. A lot of the poems were just exercises for myself.
James Welch
#17. Storybook endings never appear. They're just 'someone's' way of leading us here.
Dan Fogelberg
#18. One of the good things about a Catholic church is that it isn't respectable," she had told Richard. "You can find anyone in it, from duchesses to whores, from tramps to kings.
Rumer Godden
#20. Within seconds thoughts become words that slip off our tongue and into the world. Pausing before we speak may seem cumbersome, but it allows us to decide: Is this helpful? Does this need to be said now? What is the best way to say this?
David Jeremiah
#21. If we want every car on the road to be a Lyft, we need to make it incredibly convenient for drivers.
Logan Green
#22. If poverty is the mother of all crimes, lack of intelligence is their father.
Jean De La Bruyere
#23. Writing every day is very, very helpful, but set the bar at a place where you have no excuse: It doesn't matter how tired you are, how late it is, you will do it. So if you say, "I will write one hundred words a day" - set the bar there, and then you can actually get over that bar.
N.D. Wilson
#24. In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism.
George Orwell
#25. Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.
Thaddeus Golas
#26. But the officer stood up and stepped across the room to Ender. He held out his hand. My name is Graff, Ender. Colonel Hyrum Graff. I'm director of primary training at Battle School in the Belt. I've come to invite you to enter the school.
Orson Scott Card
#27. If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful.
Nhat Hanh
#28. Anything before you're thirty-five is new and exciting, and anything after that is proof the world's going to hell.
Daniel Suarez
