Try To Help Someone Quotes

#1. Every day, try to help someone who can't reciprocate your kindness.

John Wooden

#2. I try to help people become the best possible editors of their own work, to help them become conscious of the things they do well, of the things they need to look at again, of the wells of material they have not even begun to dip their buckets into.

Tobias Wolff

#3. The question was how you ignored someone's request to be left alone - even if it meant jeopardizing the friendship. It was a wretched little koan: How can you help someone who won't be helped while realizing that if you don't try to help, then you're not being a friend at all?

Hanya Yanagihara

#4. Morality has precious little to do with feeling in any case. The fact that you feel a surge of nausea at the sight of someone with half their head shot away is neither here nor there as long as you try to help them.

Terry Eagleton

#5. If you hear someone scream, you shouldn't close the drapes. You should help. You've got to try.

Shirley Temple

#6. It's okay for someone to tell me who they think I am, but it's not okay when they try to impose that idea on me.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#7. I look at the Samurai because they were the artists of their time. What I think struck me when I read Bushido is compassion. 'If there's no one there to help, go out and find someone to help.' That hit me, because I try to lead my life like that.

Tom Cruise

#8. You can have compassion for someone who is suffering and try to help this person but if your relationship with mankind is only one of compassion, it is only another form of contempt and it prevents feelings like admiration, empathy which to my mind are much more positive.

Pascal Bruckner

#9. When someone asks me to help create a room my first reaction, if I do not already know the person, is to try to feel out what he or she really wants the room to be and to understand, if possible, what "memory," old or new, has brought this idea about.

Sister Parish

#10. You may be the only one who'll see through all my bullshit and help me try to be something more, something better."
I stare at our intertwined hands. "I don't want to help you try to be anything. I want someone who's already something more. On his own. With or without me.

Tammara Webber

#11. After a few decades, you come to a place where you realize that there's really no difference between trying and not trying ... If someone is ready to accept Christ, it doesn't take much effort on my part to help them. If they aren't, no amount of hectoring them does any good. So why try?

James S.A. Corey

#12. When someone judges you for something you can't help, try to forgive them. They don't understand. And if they keep doing it, knock their fucking teeth in.

Seanan McGuire

#13. The end does not justify the means. If we try to be someone we are not in order to achieve a result, then the result cannot help but be something other than what we intended.

Marianne Williamson

#14. You can't help what you feel."
"I can try harder to feel something different.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#15. I just try to work hard and run the offense as good as possible. I had a lot of guys around me who made a lot of good plays to help me out.

Tim Tebow

#16. You try to do something every single day that will help an American or maybe someone overseas.

Barbara Bush

#17. I do not fight with enemies, I try to help them and love them for their ignorance.

Debasish Mridha

#18. Depression isn't a bad word ... but it can destroy. We must have hope we can save many ... We must keep the faith that we can try to help all!

Timothy Pina

#19. I thank God every day. That's all I can do. That, and try to help all those other guys who are trying to do what I did.

Tyson Beckford

#20. I am the world's worst reporter. I am apt to try too hard to help rather than just document my subjects.

David Rakoff

#21. I try to use the attention that I get to help and to serve, and that's really what I'd see as my work - to serve my community, serve the planet, serve my family. And I think a celebrity is someone who draws the attention on themselves, and then it kind of stops there.

Michael Franti

#22. When you try to help people become a better person, you're going to have to find out what's really going in their world.

Ray Lewis