Helpful Quotes

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Winston Churchill

Human, Another, Wishes

Before you speak ask yourself if what you are going to say is true, is kind, is necessary, is helpful. If the answer is no, maybe what you are about to say should be left unsaid.
Bernard Meltzer

Yourself, True, Before

Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.
Luther Burbank

Food, Sunshine, Soul

Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.
Ric Ocasek

Help, Someone, Chance

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot

Wisdom, Simple, Human

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Everyone, Open, Share

It will be helpful in our mutual objective to allow every man in America to look his neighbor in the face and see a man-not a color.
Adlai E. Stevenson

America, Face, Color

Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
Barbara Walters

Deep, Shallow, Parties

I'm touched by the idea that when we do things that are useful and helpful - collecting these shards of spirituality - that we may be helping to bring about a healing.
Leonard Nimoy

May, Healing, Idea

And so I was very grateful that I didn't do the British stiff upper lip, but I went straight to a therapist. And she was wonderful and helpful, and I went for about two years.
Lynn Redgrave

Two, Wonderful, Grateful

If we just sit and exist, and understand that, I think it will be helpful in a world that seems like a record that's going faster and faster, we're spinning off the edge of the universe.
Martin Scorsese

Understand, Universe, Off

The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
Clarence Darrow

Best, Friends, Same

There are a group of people who would like to silence everybody and have everybody go along to get along, but that's not going to be very helpful for us in the long run, in terms of solving our problems. And somebody has to be courageous enough to actually stand up to, you know, the bullies.
Benjamin Carson

Long, Silence, Enough

You will be courteous to your elders who have explored to the point from which you may advance; and helpful to your juniors who will progress farther by reason of your labors.
Abbott L. Lowell

May, Reason, Progress

I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I'm annoying, and a phony.
Anne Lamott

Love, Funny, Someone

Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.
John Cusack

Time, Movies, Evil

But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.
Carly Fiorina

Government, Important, Someone

When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
Carly Fiorina

Children, Important, Someone

Lennon was very helpful. What he taught me seems completely obvious: he expected people to treat each other well.
Annie Leibovitz

Treat, Seems, Taught

Talent is helpful in writing, but guts are absolutely necessary.
Jessamyn West

Writing, Talent, Necessary

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.
Elizabeth Bowen

Help, Friend, Pockets

I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It's very helpful.
Jennifer Lopez

Technology, Stuff, Practices

I think therapy is a helpful thing. I think everyone knows it. You do it for your life, you do it for yourself, because you want to explore some things, and get at the bottom of some things. It's about your life, the quality of your life.
Philip Seymour Hoffman

Life, Yourself, Everyone

It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
Jeanette Winterson

Husband, Woman, Artist

If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary tasks.
Maria Montessori

Life, Help, Act

Unlike the stage, I never found it helpful to be good in a bad movie.
Gene Tierney

Good, Bad, Found

Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it's Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it's a nice feeling, I'm very grateful for it. It's very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.
Gary Numan

Time, Nice, Someone

No one's going to be able to operate without a grounding in the basic sciences. Language would be helpful, although English is becoming increasingly international. And travel. You have to have a global attitude.
Rupert Murdoch

Attitude, Travel, Able

Although the French were very friendly and helpful. On one location we were to film at the top of the Eiffel Tower but we couldn't, as it was so misty with four inches of snow on the ground. We couldn't see a thing but we finally got it done.
Lalla Ward

Snow, Friendly, Done

I've worked with actors who were very helpful and a lot better than I was.
Diane Kruger

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