Helping Quotes

When anything gets freed a zest goes round the world.

~ Hortense Calisher

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

~ Liz Carpenter

If a child is too keep alive his inborn sense of wonder ... he needs the companionship of at least one adult who can share it rediscovering with him the joy excitement and mystery of the world we live in.

~ Rachel Carson

We ought to be doing all we can to make it possible for every child to fulfill his or her God-given potential.

~ Hillary Rodham Clinton

You cannot create genius. All you can do is nurture it.

~ Ninette De Valois

Most convicted felons are just people who were not taken to museums or Broadway musicals as children.

~ Libby Gelman-Waxner

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.

~ Emma Goldman

I'm not an American hero. I'm a person who loves children.

~ Clara Mcbride Hale

When a person is down in the world an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

~ Edward Bulwer-Lytton

The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap it consoles it distracts it excites it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

~ Elizabeth Hardwick

A little help is worth a great deal of pity.

~ Anonymous

Don't give advice unless you're asked.

~ Amy Alcott

Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.

~ Vauvenargues

Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

~ Elias L. Magoon

Nagging is the repetition of unpalatable truths.

~ Baroness Edith Summerskill

Orthodox criticism ... is a murderer of talent. And because the most modest and sensitive people are the most talented having the most imagination and sympathy these are the first ones to get killed off.

~ Brenda Ueland

With every deed you are sowing a seed though the harvest you may not see.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

~ Dolores Huerta

What its children become that will the community become.

~ Suzannea Lafollette

A child is fed with milk and praise.

~ Mary Lamb

Children are forced to live very rapidly in order to live at all. They are given only a few years in which to learn hundreds of thousands of things about life and the planet and themselves.

~ Phyllis Mcginley

Live and let live is not enough live and help live is not too much.

~ Orison Swett Marden

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

~ Sa'di

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education all politics can do is keep us out of war.

~ Maria Montessori

Pity costs nothing and ain't worth nothing.

~ Josh Billings

The greatness of the human personality begins at the hour of birth. From this almost mystic affirmation there comes what may seem a strange conclusion: that education must start from birth.

~ Maria Montessori

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian-to help them is.

~ Frank A. Clark

What we remember from childhood we remember forever-permanent ghosts stamped imprinted eternally seen.

~ Cynthia Ozick

I don't believe civilization can do a lot more than educate a person's senses.

~ Grace Paley

'Tis not enough to help the feeble up but to support him after.

~ William Shakespeare

Where our bread is concerned it is a material matter. Where our neighbor's bread is concerned it is a spiritual matter.

~ I. D. Douglas

A good education is that which prepares us for our future sphere of action and makes us contented with that situation in life in which God in his infinite mercy has seen fit to place us to be perfectly resigned to our lot in life whatever it may be.

~ Ann Plato

Teaching was the hardest work I had ever done and it remains the hardest work I have done to date.

~ Ann Richards

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

~ Muriel Spark

To throw obstacles in the way of a complete education is like putting out the eyes.

~ Elizabeth Cady Stanton

No other job in the world could possibly dispossess one so completely as this job of teaching. You could stand all day in a laundry for instance still in possession of your mind. But this teaching utterly obliterates you. It cuts right into your being: essentially it takes over your spirit.

~ Sylvia Ashton-Warner

Teaching is the royal road to learning.

~ Jessamyn West

Teaching was the best way to learn.

~ Edna Gardner Whyte

Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.

~ Colleen Wilcox

I think education is power. I think that being able to communicate with people is power. One of my main goals on the planet is to encourage people to empower themselves.

~ Oprah Winfrey