Helpless Quotes

• The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service. The greatest form of praise is the sound of consecrated feet seeking out the lost and helpless.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Feet, Sound

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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• My heart throbs and aches and, for once, it's not for myself. It's for all of us. It's for everyone who knows what it's like to be helpless, to have to watch on the sidelines, to be paralyzed, literally unable to do anything.

  Sarah Wylie

  Heart, Watches, Ache

  Sarah Wylie (2012). “All These Lives”, p.243, Macmillan

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• The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members

  Pearl S. Buck

  Inspiring, Civilization, Society

  My Several Worlds pt. 4 (1954) See Ramsey Clark 1; Dostoyevski 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

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• I hate being helpless, and I hate having to ask people to do things for me.

  Lindsey Vonn

  Hate, People, Asks

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• I feel like dying when I'm helpless

  Stan Laurel

  Dying, Feel Like Dying, Feels

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• I've never been helpless, I just have powerful enemies

  Christopher Paolini

  Powerful, Enemy

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• You have the power to heal your life, and you need to know that. We think so often that we are helpless, but we're not. We always have the power of our minds…Claim and consciously use your power.

  Louise Hay

  Positive, Thinking, Mind

  Louise L. Hay (2000). “Meditations to Heal Your Life”, p.183, Hay House, Inc

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• How helpless we are, like netted birds, when we are caught by desire!

  Belva Plain

  Bird, Desire, Caught

  Belva Plain (2009). “Evergreen”, p.296, Dell

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• I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.

  Franz Kafka

  Thinking, Darkness, Goes On

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• If you are feeling helpless, help someone.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Feelings, Helping, Ifs

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• One of the biggest defects in life is the inability to ask for help.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inability, Helping, Life Is

  Twitter post from Apr 23, 2014

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• Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate, roll darkly down the torrent of his fate.

  Samuel Johnson

  Ignorance, Fate, Destiny

  Samuel Johnson, “The Vanity Of Human Wishes”

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• Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

  B. F. Skinner

  Society, Positive Reinforcement, Individual

  B. F. Skinner (1974). “Walden Two”, p.95, Hackett Publishing

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• No one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.

  Kin Hubbard

  Sick, Pet, Literature

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• The serpent is helpless unless he finds an apple to work with.

  George Ade

  Apples, Serpent

  George Ade (1920). “Hand-made Fables”

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• If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Badass

  "At Lunch with Aung San Suu Kyi" by Cherno Jobatey, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.

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• Bottom line is, even if you see 'em coming, you're not ready for the big moments. No one asks for their life to change, not really. But it does. So what are we, helpless? Puppets? No. The big moments are gonna come. You can't help that. It's what you do afterwards that counts. That's when you find out who you are.

  Joss Whedon

  Inspirational, Strength, Vampire

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• I wish people would realize that animals are totally dependent on us, helpless, like children, a trust that is put upon us.

  James Herriot

  Children, Animal, People

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• A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Historical, Groups

  Statement to the nation, 4 Mar. 1917

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• We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Birthday, Education, Men

  Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.17, eKitap Projesi

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• Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

  Pearl S. Buck

  Funny, Fear, Civilization

  My Several Worlds pt. 4 (1954) See Ramsey Clark 1; Dostoyevski 1; Humphrey 3; Samuel Johnson 69; Helen Keller 4

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• The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless.

  Charles Bukowski

  Wings, White, Skins

  Charles Bukowski (2014). “Charles Bukowski Fiction Collection”, Harper Collins

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• I am somewhat of a meliorist. That is to say, I act as an optimist because I find I cannot act at all, as a pessimist. One often feels helpless in the face of the confusion of these times, such a mass of apparently uncontrollable events and experiences to live through, attempt to understand, and if at all possible, give order to; but one must not withdraw from the task if he has some small things to offer - he does so at the risk of diminishing his humanity.

  Bernard Malamud

  Order, Giving, Confusion

  "The Fixer". Book by Bernard Malamud, Part Five, 1966.

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• Where misunderstanding serves others as an advantage, one is helpless to make oneself understood.

  Lionel Trilling

  Understanding, Obscurity, Advantage

  Lionel Trilling (2012). “The Liberal Imagination”, p.259, New York Review of Books

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• The highest form of worship is the worship of unselfish Christian service.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Worship Service, Unselfish

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

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