Quotes & Sayings About Helping Others Help Themselves

I think a lot of trainers are forgetting to take care of themselves and focusing only on their clients. You see it with doctors, nurses, and caretakers. If you put too much effort into only helping others, you are neglecting yourself, and your health is the only thing that makes it possible for you to help others. — Jessie Pavelka

(Allah rendered) patience as a help for getting reward. — Fatima Bint Muhammad

Give more than is expected, love more than seems wise, serve more than seems necessary, and help more than is asked. — Cory Booker

Sow success and hope unto others, and more success and hope becomes what you permanently reap. — Auliq Ice

I tried to just do things like make some money, be responsible, help out other artists who I see have had a similar path. — Ariel Pink

You are who you are. All you can do in this world is help others to be who they are and better themselves. — Elizabeth Taylor

After all, Jews invented psychiatry to help other Jews become Gentiles. — Morton Feldman

Acknowledge World Aids Day! Do what you can to help save lives! #livingforlove — Madonna Ciccone

A third of the people who rush to psychiatrists for help could probably cure themselves if they could only do as Margaret Yates did: get interested in helping others. My idea? No, that is approximately what Carl Jung said. And he ought to know - if anybody does. He said: "About one third of my patients are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives." To put it another way, they are trying to thumb a ride through life - and the parade passes them by. So they rush to a psychiatrist with their petty, senseless, useless lives. Having missed the boat, they stand on the wharf, blaming everyone except themselves and demanding that the world cater to their self-centered desires. — Dale Carnegie

There are many ways to prescribe happiness but there is one way that is available to everybody, it's not very expensive ... it's very democratic, and everyone has acesss to it. It is: Find someone who needs help and help him for no ulterior motive. — Yossi Vardi

When it all comes down to dust I will kill you if I must , I will help you if I can. When it all comes down to dust I will help you if I must, I will kill you if I can. — Leonard Cohen

You should help a man to take up a burden, but you should not help him put it back down. — Pythagoras

If you feel helpless, go help someone. — Aung San Suu Kyi

[...] if truth be told, evolution hasn't yielded many practical or commercial benefits. Yes, bacteria evolve drug resistance, and yes, we must take countermeasures, but beyond that there is not much to say. Evolution cannot help us predict what new vaccines to manufacture because microbes evolve unpredictably. But hasn't evolution helped guide animal and plant breeding? Not very much. Most improvement in crop plants and animals occurred long before we knew anything about evolution, and came about by people following the genetic principle of 'like begets like'. Even now, as its practitioners admit, the field of quantitative genetics has been of little value in helping improve varieties. Future advances will almost certainly come from transgenics, which is not based on evolution at all.
[review of The Evolving World: Evolution in Everyday Life, Nature 442, 983-984 (31 August 2006)] — Jerry A. Coyne

And of course the World needs more love, but we need to be clear on what form that love will take. Sometimes love requires killing its object, to put it out of its misery or protect others. Sometimes love requires incarcerating its object to protect it or others. Sometimes love requires taxing and regulating its objects to protect and serve them. Sometimes love requires helping its object to help itself. Sometimes love requires giving its object a gift. But all of these are aspects of love, not merely the last, most popular example. I send love too, and my love takes many forms. My love varies with its objects. Yes, the World needs much more love. — Robert Peate

Fate helps those who help themselves;
God helps those who help others. — Matshona Dhliwayo

A person with imprecise ideas can understand little and be of less help to others. — Ignatius Of Loyola

Help others solve their problems; standing farther away, you can often see matters more clearly than they do ... The greatest service you can render someone else is helping him or her help themselves. — Baltasar Gracian

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself. — Andrew Carnegie

Read as much as you possibly can. Nothing will help you as much as reading and you'll go through a phase where you will imitate your favorite writers and that's fine because that's a learning experience too. — J.K. Rowling

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil. — Vachel Lindsay

Only those who have already experienced a revolution within themselves can reach out effectively to help others. — Malcolm X

The numbers are a catalyst that can help turn raving madmen into polite humans. — Philip J. Davis

I think anybody who has a soul would themselves and their needs aside to help other people. — Frank Grillo

He just explained that he just wanted to help people and that was his way of helping people of, you know, being someone that he wasn't and trying to connect with somebody on a different level too and help 'em out. — Manti Te'o

When you set out in the world to help yourself,sometimes you end up helping Tutti. — Elizabeth Gilbert

Many times when we help we do not really serve ... Serving is also different from fixing. One of the pioneers of the Human Potential Movement, Abraham Maslow, said, If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.' Seeing yourself as a fixer may cause you to see brokenness everywhere, to sit in judgment of life itself. When we fix others, we may not see their hidden wholeness or trust the integrity of the life in them. Fixers trust their own expertise. When we serve, we see the unborn wholeness in others; we collaborate with it and strengthen it. Others may then be able to see their wholeness for themselves for the first time. — Rachel Naomi Remen

One of the greatest things you can do to help others is not just to share and give what you have, but to help them discover what they have within themselves to help themselves. — Rita Zahara

I pray because I can't help myself ... — C.S. Lewis

Help thyself, then thou wilt also have the help of the Almighty. — Adolf Hitler

You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, will, in the quickest and delicatest ways, improve yourself. — John Ruskin

My own philosophy is that one should share what wisdom he has, one should help others to help themselves and one should keep going despite heavy weather, for there is always a calm ahead. — L. Ron Hubbard

I've always been business-minded. I worked in corporate America before becoming an actress and knew that acting wasn't the end but a means to an end. It gave me the platform and the exposure I needed to do my philanthropic work. It also gave me the financial security to focus on my other businesses, start new businesses, and even help other people start businesses. — Eva Longoria

This is true even in organizations that are very focused on analysis and quantitative measurement, even among people who think of themselves as smart in an MBA sense. In highly successful change efforts, people find ways to help others see the problems or solutions in ways that influence emotions, not just thought. — John P. Kotter

People that do good in the world or that want to do good, that have good intentions and want to help other people, and people that aren't concerned with themselves but more [with] others and helping in service of others - that inspires me. — Daniella Alonso

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

Some strive to make themselves great. Others help others see and find their own greatness. It's the latter who really enrich the world we live in — Rasheed Ogunlaru

I help those who can help themselves. — Agatha Christie

We live in a world where not everyone has the urge to help others ... It is OK to encourage others to pull themselves up by the bootstraps, but if you do, just remember that some people have no boots. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

When you affirm your own Tightness in the universe, then you co operate with others easily and automatically as part of your own nature. You, being yourself, help others be themselves. — Jane Roberts

There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves. — Andrew Carnegie

A
lot of people think they're born for themselves; I don't think that. I
believe that we're here to help other people all the way through. — Walter Breuning

Some help others in order to receive blessings and admiration. This is simply meaningless. Some cultivate themselves in part to serve others, in part to serve their own pride. They will understand, at best, half of the truth. But those who improve themselves for the sake of the world - to these, the whole truth of the universe will be revealed. — Laozi

The highest service we can perform for others is to help them help themselves. — Horace Mann

When the children had completed an absorbing bit of work, they appeared rested and deeply pleased. It almost seemed as if a road had opened up within their souls that led to all their latent powers, revealing the better part of themselves. They exhibited a great affability to everyone, put themselves out to help others and seemed full of good will. — Maria Montessori

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

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

The spirit of brotherhood recognizes of necessity both the need of self-help and also the need of helping others in the only way which every ultimately does great god, that is, of helping them to help themselves. — Theodore Roosevelt

But it takes so little to help people, and people really do help each other, even people with very little themselves. And it's not just about second chances. Most people deserve an endless number of chances. — Will Schwalbe

God has uniquely gifted you to help someone. Be available as God opens doors for you to do so. — Joyce Meyer

Don't accept the world as it is.
Dream of what the world could be -
and then help make it happen. — Peter Tatchell

It's true that we can't help the circumstances we're born into and some of us start out in a much tougher place than other people. But just because we started there doesn't mean we have to end there. — Michael Oher

Every man has a mission from God to help his fellow beings. — James Gibbons

Right education should help the student, not only to develop his capacities, but to understand his own highest interest. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

At times we can be self-absorbed. Lord, help us to open our hearts to others and to serve those who are most vulnerable. — Pope Francis

Life is not linear, it is organic. We create our lives symbiotically as we explore our talents in relation to the circumstances they help create for us — Ken Robinson

Help control the pet population. Have your pets spayed or neutered. — Bob Barker

You can be yourself without pursuing yourself. Have you ever seen a dog chase his own tail? He just runs in circles. — Criss Jami

The ego prevents us from helping ourselves by presenting a false notion of what it really means to help ourselves. — Gelek Rimpoche

It is no kindness to treat unhappy people as helpless, hopeless, or inadequate, no matter what has happened to them. Kindness is having faith in the truth and that people can handle it and use it for their benefit. True compassion is helping people help themselves. — William Glasser

God help this country if we're now prepared to vote for someone we don't trust. But every election cycle we do things we never dreamed of. — Rudy Giuliani

I love lyrics. They help me to figure things out. — Colleen Saidman

Our highest, most important duty in this world is to help our fellow beings. — Mata Amritanandamayi

You cannot help small men by tearing down big men. — Abraham Lincoln

The world conspires to help those who are in love with the beauty of their dreams. — Eleanor Roosevelt

One of the marks of a great poet is that he creates his own family of words and teaches them to live together in harmony and to help one another. — Gerald Brenan

The entire drug phenomenon of the 1960s happened without the concept of shamanism to help it along. — Terence McKenna

Helping professionals, therapists, life coaches, healers can greatly assist you in changing your life for the better, but they pale in comparison to the power thats gained from developing a relationship with yourself. It's you that holds the power for change — Renae A. Sauter

Only those who see that the two sides of all phenomena, visible and invisible, are front and back or beginning and end of one reality can embrace any antagonistic situation, see its complementarity , and help others to do the same, thereby establishing peace and harmony. — George Ohsawa

People rely on intelligence to solve problems, and they are naturally baffled when comprehension proves impotent to effect emotional change. To the neocortical brain, rich in the power of abstractions, understanding makes all the difference, but it doesn't count for much in the neural systems that evolved before understanding existed. Ideas bounce like so many peas off the sturdy incomprehension of the limbic and reptilian brains. The dogged implicitness of emotional knowledge, its relentless unreasoning force, prevents logic from granting salvation just as it precludes self-help books from helping. The sheer volume and variety of self-help paraphernalia testify at once to the vastness of the appetite they address and their inability to satisfy it. (118) — Thomas Lewis

The best place to get help is from yourself. — Epictetus

You matter because you are you, and you matter to the end of your life. We will do all we can not only to help you die peacefully, but also to live until you die. — Cicely Saunders

I would describe myself as a writer that hopes to take you into my world and help you feel a little safer. — John Waters

With the proper diet, no doctor is necessary.
With the improper diet, no doctor can help — Gabriel Cousens

I have pledged my word to help people on to truth while living and - will keep my word. Let them abuse and revile me. Let some call me a medium, and a Spiritualist, and others an imposter. The day will come when posterity will learn to know me better. — H. P. Blavatsky

Where [a]can you trust your own thoughts and your own intentions? Everywhere, hopefully, but it isn't always that easy. Sometimes, you have to help yourself along. — Val Kilmer

We believe that in times like these we should turn to each other, not on each other. We believe that government has a role to play, not in solving every problem in everybody's life but in helping people help themselves to the American dream. That's what Democrats believe. — Deval Patrick

How painful it is to find that my figure can be of no help to my future ... how painful to see it rejected on account of a slanderous suspicion! — Auguste Rodin

There never was a liar that had not a spot in him where he could not help admiring truth. — Henry Ward Beecher

You can't help the poor by being one of them. — Abraham Lincoln

Cherish your health: If it is good, preserve it. If it is unstable, improve it. If it is beyond what you can improve, get help. — George Carlin

You can't help people that don't want to be helped. — John Armstrong

I'm not a fan of self-help books - how can something be 'self-help' if the book itself is purportedly helping you? — Harlan Coben

All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak. — Mahatma Gandhi