Helping Quote by Samuel Johnson

Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and when he has…

— Samuel Johnson

He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach the land,…

— Henry Austin Dobson

He who seeks the water, shall not see himself. Because if he thinks he isn't the water, the water shall drown him.

— Jeremy Limn

He who endeavors to serve, to benefit, and improve the world, is like a swimmer, who struggles against a rapid current, in a river…

— Albert Pike

There are persons of that general philanthropy and easy tempers, which the world in contempt generally calls good-natured, who seem to be sent into…

— Henry Fielding

There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying…

— Herman Melville

If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after…

— Margaret Fuller

“The ordinary man thinks that yielding to doubts and worries is a sign of sensibility, of spirituality. Acting thus, he remains distant from the…

— Paulo Coelho

The man who is master of himself drinks gravely and wisely.

— Confucius

The man who boldly transgresses, amassing a great heap unjustly--by force, in time, he will strike his sail, when trouble seizes him as the…

— Aeschylus

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

— Dante Alighieri

A sympathetic person is placed in the dilemma of a swimmer among drowning men, who all catch at him, and if he gives so…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson