Quotes about helping others

[Connecting is] a constant process of giving and receiving -- of asking for and receiving help.

I never thought of asking anyone to do it for me. Something’s wrong with me. In a time of trouble should people not be able to ask help without feeling demeaned?

"Neither refuse to give help when it is needed," Medwyn continued, "nor refuse to accept it when it is offered."

The belief that men don’t need help is part of the problem.

Russell Markert, Lela Rogers, Ed Sedgwick - these were but a few of the experienced theater people who generously gave me a boost. I have a theory about the assists we get in life. Only rarely can we repay those people who helped us, but we can pass that help along to others. That's why, in 1958, I reactivated Lela's theater workshop with two dozen talented kids trying to get started in show business.

"Stalin found out about the community and sent his thugs in, just a few days before I got there, to break all of their arms! That was worse than killing them! It was a horrible sight, Oskar: their arms in crude splints, straight in front of them like zombies! They couldn't feed themselves, because they couldn't get their hands to their mouths! So you know what they did!" "They starved?" "They fed each other! That's the difference between heaven and hell! In hell we starve! In heaven we feed each other!" I don't believe in the afterlife." "Neither do I, but I believe in the story."

Seems to me the place you fight cruelty is where you find it, and the place you give help is where you see it needed.

It is impossible to do anything for anyone.

In a way, misery loves company. In another way, if everyone’s in trouble, nobody can help anybody else get out of it.

'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'

“We Enforcers have a saying: ‘the right help helps, and enough help helps, but help that’s in time helps most.’”

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.