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Helping Quotes by Alfie Kohn
- Those who know they're valued irrespective of their accomplishments often end up accomplishing quite a lot. It's the experience of being accepted without conditions that…
- If I offered you a thousand dollars to take off your shoes, you'd very likely accept--and then I could triumphantly announce that 'rewards work.' But…
- Each time I visit such a classroom, where the teacher is more interested in creating a democratic community than in maintaining her position of authority,…
- If rewards do not work, what does? I recommend that employers pay workers well and fairly and then do everything possible to help them forget…
- In short, with each of the thousand-and-one problems that present themselves in family life, our choice is between controlling and teaching, between creating an atmosphere…
More Helping Quotes
- As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti,… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of… — Victoria Abril
- Between you and me, I think that may be one of the things that will help with the collaboration, because there are… — Robert Asprin
- I could be on 52nd and Third in Manhattan up and ask a strange for directions and they will help you, that's… — Rodney Atkins
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and… — Saint Augustine
- O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. — Saint Augustine
- He who created us without our help will not save us without our consent. — Saint Augustine
- If Christ Jesus dwells in a man as his friend and noble leader, that man can endure all things, for Christ helps… — Teresa of Avila