HELPFULNESS

See also: God’s help

Vain is the help of man.

The Bible, Psalm 60:11 kjv

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting someone else up.

Author unknown

The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

Phillips Brooks

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.

B. Disraeli

People who won’t help others in trouble “because they got into trouble through their own fault” would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not.

Sydney J. Harris

If a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

Edgar Watson Howe

Even if it’s a little thing, do something for those who have need of help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.

Albert Schweitzer

Hence we must support one another, console one another, mutually help, counsel, and advise.

Thomas à Kempis