Quotes About Helping Yourself Before You Can Help Others

#1. Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.

Karen Duffy

#2. You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.

Booker T. Washington

#3. I saw that show, 50 Things To Do Before You Die. I would have thought the obvious one was 'Shout For Help'.

Jimmy Carr

#4. Tradition is an important help to history, but its statements should be carefully scrutinized before we rely on them.

Joseph Addison

#5. They were creating a program on contemplative prayer called Be Still. They asked me to be a part of this project that was designed to help Americans see the importance of spending time before God in stillness. I knew immediately that God wanted me to be a part of the project.

Priscilla Shirer

#6. After praying, and before eating anything, it is a good custom for everyone to feed one another a small portion of the food. This will help to cultivate mutual love and affection among the family members.

Mata Amritanandamayi

#7. If home cooks shopped in their own vegetable bin before going to the market, they would save money and help the environment, too, and all because they decided to rescue a vegetable before it turned bad.

Dana Cowin

#8. But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality ... Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.

R.J. Rushdoony

#9. The important thing is that you've got a strong foundation before you start to try to save the world or help other people.

Richard Branson

#10. You, being yourself, help others be themselves. Because you recognize your own uniqueness you will not need to dominate others, nor cringe before them.

Jane Roberts

#11. The laws all true wanderers obey are these: 'Thou shalt not eat nor drink more than thy share,' 'Thou shalt not lie about the places thou hast visited or the distances thou hast traversed.

Rosita Forbes

#12. A person must first learn how to walk on their own before you can guide them in the right direction.

Craig Mercier

#13. Before I started touring, I worked with someone to help me, even physically, because I was so shy. And you can't be shy going onstage. So I had to push myself in a direction that wasn't myself.

Charlotte Gainsbourg

#14. I can't help thousands, I can help only the one who stands before me.

Mother Teresa

#15. Don't just teach your children to read ...
Teach them to question what they read.
Teach them to question everything.

George Carlin

#16. Never in our history have we been headed at such breakneck speed toward our own financial, political and cultural destruction. One can only pray that before it's too late, enough Democrats will come to their senses and help get this freight train under control.

David Limbaugh

#17. The best way to help those who are behind you is to heed those before you.

Jack Hyles

#18. But I was singing loud, and most singers weren't singing loud.

Little Richard

#19. You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.

Criss Jami

#20. Speculative joy, the joy derived from being right and being rewarded, may well be similar to the rush felt by a winning gambler.

Michael Steinhardt

#21. Help Nature and work on with her; and Nature will regard thee as one of her creators ... she will lay bare before thy gaze the treasures hidden in the depths of her pure virgin bosom.

H. P. Blavatsky

#22. I just haven't really had a chance to allow to sink in. I'm sure there is going to come a time when reality is going to hit me and I'm going to know that it's going to be a while before I help my teammates, and that's going to be hard for me.

Gabe Kapler

#23. Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped!

Joni Mitchell

#24. The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

William Osler

#25. Investing in women, helping women to achieve their dreams, sending young girls to college. Trying to train young girls to be leaders. Sponsoring the Minerva Awards. All of these programs didn't exist before that help women day in and day out.

Maria Shriver

#26. The rainbow bending in the sky, Bedecked with sundry hues, Is like the seat of God on high And seems to tell thee news: That, as thereby he promised To drown the world no more, So by the blood which Christ hath shed He will our health restore.

George Gascoigne

#27. The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.

Indira Gandhi

#28. Before I can accept someone's help, I must accept their presence.

Lawrence Fagg

#29. I always pray before any of the operation. I think God help me know what to do.

Benjamin Carson

#30. The perfect man of old looked after himself first before looking to help others.

Zhuangzi

#31. I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.

Deborah Tall

#32. The only occasion when the traditions of courtesy permit a hostess to help herself before a woman guest is when she has reason to believe the food is poisoned.

Emily Post

#33. Helplessness is a place of power if you're helpless before God. Ask God for help in everything you do.

Joyce Meyer

#34. Before you can give anyone a hand up, first you must get yourself up there to do so ...

Stephen Richards

#35. It will greatly help you to understand scripture if you note - no only what is spoken and written, but of whom and to whom, with what words, at what time, where, to what intent, with what circumstances, considering what goes before and what follows.

Myles Coverdale

#36. I'm interested in seeing films that confront me with new things, with films that make me question myself, with films that help me to reflect on subjects that I hadn't thought about before, films that help me progress and advance.

Michael Haneke

#37. Novak! Take the blazer off before you punch, it will help. Take it off. Hey, that's from Express.

Dolph Ziggler

#38. No one in this world can starve n die.. One who does, had died much before then ... Never give money to beggars and specially children on street ... By giving them money, Either u would be killing them or helping them in dieing (indirectly) ...

Honeya