69 Help Quotes For Inspiration

In the hustle and bustle of daily life, we all encounter moments when we need a push, a bit of encouragement, or simply a reminder that help is always available. Whether you're seeking motivation to tackle a daunting project, a nudge to support someone in need, or inspiration to ask for assistance yourself, a well-chosen quote can make all the difference. Our curated collection of the top 69 help quotes is designed to inspire, uplift, and remind you of the profound impact that reaching out and offering or accepting help can have. Dive in and let these words of wisdom guide you through your journey.

1. “In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.” - Jane Goodall

2. “If sympathy is all that human beings need, then the Cross of Christ is an absurdity and there is absolutely no need for it. What the world needs is not "a little bit of love," but major surgery. If you think you are helping lost people with your sympathy and understanding, you are a traitor to Jesus Christ. You must have a right-standing relationship with Him yourself, and pour your life out in helping others in His way— not in a human way that ignores God. ” - Oswald Chambers

3. “Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot...Where's all this stuff coming from? Is it any good? Any good in, you know, the wisdom sense? Who am I to spout this stuff anyway?Well, here's the thing. You too can find yourself shedding wisdom like cat hair if you only allow yourself the liberty of introspection.Think about what you alone know that no one else does. That one neat wonderful profound insight. It is fully yours. No one else on this planet of about six billion people understands it like you do.Now, see if you can share it with someone. Bestow it, a gift of yourself.Wisdom is like gossip. Except it's the good kind.” - Vera Nazarian

4. “Perhaps second-hand cares, like second-hand clothes, come easily off and on.” - Charles Dickens

5. “A fine glass vase goes from treasure to trash, the moment it is broken. Fortunately, something else happens to you and me. Pick up your pieces. Then, help me gather mine.” - Vera Nazarian

6. “Normally, Edward would have found intrusive, clingy behavior of this sort very annoying, but there was something about Sarah Ruth. He wanted to take care of her. He wanted to protect her. He wanted to do more for her. (page 135)” - kate dicamillo

7. “Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling” - Tony DeLiso

8. “Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens” - Tony DeLiso

9. “HELP!”I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listening out-No.No.It’s empty.Viola’s breathing heavy in my arms .And Haven is empty.I reach the middle of the square.I don’t see nor hear a soul.I spin around again.“HELP!” I cry.But there’s no one.Haven’s completely empty.There ain’t hope here after all.” - Patrick Ness

10. “You are never strong enough that you don't need help.” - Cesar Chavez

11. “Help her," Peter pleaded. "Do something. You have ways. Your potions. Your medicines. Do something.” - Brom

12. “He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.” - Dante Alighieri

13. “This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.” - Friedrich Nietzsche

14. “Many are the strange chances of the world,' said Mithrandir, 'and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter.” - J.R.R. Tolkien

15. “There’s one thing about getting somebody to help you though…you got to take whatever it looks like - their kind of help. And you can’t be choosin what you like and don’t like. Help is a take it or leave it kind of thing, and if you can’t take it like it comes, might as well leave it, cause it’s gonna be more trouble than it’s worth.” - Todd Johnson

16. “Sandry: "There has to be something we can do." Lark: "We're mages. We do what we can, but some problems are too big to fix." Sandry: "Then I wish I weren't a mage. What good is magic, if you can't use it to help people.” - Tamora Pierce

17. “Then I realised that I was the god on this occasion. I had tried to help the bluebottle, but it wouldn't let me. And then I felt sorry for God because I understood his frustration. Sometimes when people offer a helping hand, it gets pushed away. People always want to help themselves first.” - Cecelia Ahern

18. “You think you're lost but you're not lost on your own. You're not alone. I will stand by you, I will help you through when you’ve done all you can do.If you can’t cope, I will dry your eyesI will fight your fight, I will hold you tight and I wont let go” - Rascal Flatts

19. “I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.” - Aimee Bender

20. “When you saw a wounded who cry out for help,you may be the one sent by God to bring a favor.” - Toba Beta

21. “Everyone needs help. That's the human condition.” - Max Allan Collins

22. “Prayer is an acknowledgment that our need of God's help is not partial but total.” - Alistair Begg

23. “Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won’t hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, “All right, it’s just fear, I don’t have to let it control me. I see it for what it is".” - Mitch Albom

24. “Give more, so that we can build more, put interest in understanding another more in whatever actions one might carry out in life. Because we all are fighting for survival against adversaries and are sometimes falling, but if we stand together and help shield and strengthen one another, imagine the world that we will live in together, having more happiness with one another, at one another’s side.” - Jonathan Anthony Burkett

25. “The metaphor is so obvious. Easter Island isolated in the Pacific Ocean — once the island got into trouble, there was no way they could get free. There was no other people from whom they could get help. In the same way that we on Planet Earth, if we ruin our own [world], we won't be able to get help.” - Jared Diamond

26. “Sometimes, though, you have to do things for family, even if you'd rather not.” - Patricia C. Wrede

27. “Believe in your dreams and when people doubt you, prove them wrong.” - Sky Diamond

28. “Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just a general of forgotten battles compared with the queen who paid for Shakespeare's meals and beer in the tavern. The statesman who in his time freed the slaves, even he has a few enemies in posterity, whereas the literary patron has none. We thank Gaius Maecenas for the nobility of soul we attribute to Virgil; but he isn’t blamed for the selfishness and egocentricity that the poet possessed. The patron creates 'literature through altruism,' something not even the greatest genius can do with a pen.” - Roman Payne

29. “Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.” - P.J. O'Rourke

30. “You need my help? What for? Bread, cash, a fake identity to help you slip sideways through the cracks? Tell me what you need, tell me why I should help, and I'll see what I can do. In memory of Elphaba. You knew her." Her head titled again, but up, this time, and it was to keep the sudden wetness from spilling into her carefully colored false eyelashes. "You knew my Elphie!” - Gregory Maguire

31. “I will tell you what we shall do: if ever you need to rescue Catherine, or you Berkley, Maximus, I will help you, and you will do as much for me. Then we do not need to worry, I do not suppose anyone could stop all three of us, at least not before we can escape” - Naomi Novik

32. “When we feel weak, we drop our heads on the shoulders of others. Don't get mad when someone does that. Be honored. For that person trusted you enough to, even if subtly, ask you for help.” - Lori Goodwin

33. “Sometimes we must yield control to others and accept our vulnerability so we can be healed.” - Kathy Magliato

34. “That’s the key, you know, confidence. I know for a fact that if you genuinely like your body, so can others. It doesn’t really matter if it’s short, tall, fat or thin, it just matters that you can find some things to like about it. Even if that means having a good laugh at the bits of it that wobble independently, occasionally, that’s all right. It might take you a while to believe me on this one, lots of people don’t because they seem to suffer from self-hatred that precludes them from imagining that a big woman could ever love herself because they don’t. But I do. I know what I’ve got is a bit strange and difficult to love but those are the very aspects that I love the most! It’s a bit like people. I’ve never been particularly attracted to the uniform of conventional beauty. I’m always a bit suspicious of people who feel compelled to conform. I personally like the adventure of difference. And what’s beauty, anyway?” - Dawn French

35. “Crying doesn't make you weak. There's sixteen years of tears in that body of yours, and you have to let some of it go.” - Sahana Epari

36. “...Ponnammal set the example for the others by quietly doing what they did not care to do. Her spirit created a new climate in the place, and the time came when there was not one nurse who would refuse to do whatever needed to be done.” - Elisabeth Elliot

37. “I am both numb and oversensitive, overwhelmed by the need, the raw and desperate need of the girls I am listening to and trying to help. I'm overdosing on the trauma of others, while still barely healing from my own.I cry for hour at home and have fitful nights of little sleep. My nightmares resurface as my own pain is repeated to me, magnified a thousand times. It feels insurmountable. How can you save everyone? How can you rescue them? How do you get over your pain? How do you ever feel normal?” - Rachel Lloyd

38. “Being an altruist I have an urge in mylife to help poor's but im not Bill Gates” - Bilal Bashir Magry

39. “You know, there comes a point where you're not giving advice anymore. There comes a point where you're just moralizing, demonstrating your hypothetical superiority when it comes to doing the right thing. That's not very fucking helpful, you know. I'm holding my shit together right now, and rather than telling me that it's not enough, you could try to help me with the stuff I'm capable of.” - Cory Doctorow

40. “This helping-people business was an attractive idea, I'll admit, because up to now I'd not done much more than be, and when I wasn't just being, I'd caused some pain, too.” - Brock Clarke

41. “Abundance isn't God's provision for me to live in luxury. It's his provision for me to help others live. God entrusts me with his money not to build my kingdom on earth, but to build his kingdom in heaven.” - Randy Alcorn

42. “God doesn't make us rich so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children, or so we can insulate ourselves form needing God's provision. God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.” - Randy Alcorn

43. “A true Christian does not judge whether a person is worthy of help, but only judges a need and how to best meet that need.” - Toni Sorenson

44. “Prayer:  The act of falling to your knees in pleading fashion, seeking help from a greater power than all else to have failed you previously.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

45. “Do not be ashamed of help.” - Marcus Aurelius

46. “We have been together for 40 years, married for 36. There have been three times in our relationship when we were unable to resolve an issue on our own. We used all the skill that we have and yet it was still unresolved. In those three times we sought professional help because there was a blind spot for each of us. The therapist was able to listen to both of us and help us come to a place of resolution that we both felt good about. I feel very grateful for that help. Most times we have been able to work things through on our own. Sometimes we can clear the issue in a matter of a few minutes, sometimes an hour and sometimes it can take several days. But we still keep working on it until we both say that we feel complete, we understand our own part and responsibility in the issue rather than simply blaming each other, are willing to go on, and there is an even deeper connection and sometimes even humor to the situation. In working each issue through to completion we have been able to retain a beautiful lightness in our relationship that we both cherish.” - Joyce Vissell

47. “You really need stitches," she tells me."Or you're going to have a scar." I try not to laugh. Stitches aren't going to help. They fix skin, cuts, wounds, heal stuff on the outside. Everything broken with me is on the inside. "I can handle scars, especially one's on the outside.” - Jessica Sorensen

48. “No one has capacity to help for ever except God .” - wordfaith3

49. “I spend a lot of time looking up.” - Erica Goros

50. “Unfortunately we do treat others as we treat ourselves. We should try being genuinely kind to ourselves first and the rest will come naturally, like an 18-kt. Golden Rule.” ― Erica Goros, The Daisy Chain” - Erica Goros

51. “Irena Sendler never thought of herself as a hero. She only did what she felt she must, and wished she could have done more.” - Marcia Vaughan

52. “We change the world a little each day with our kindness.” - Tom Giaquinto

53. “Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.” - Wayne Gerard Trotman

54. “If opposites attract why is the church trying so hard to mirror the world?” - Lakesha Ruise

55. “Ask us for any help you need...Let us be strong for you.” - Juliet Marillier

56. “You have to lift a person up before you can really put them in their place.” - Criss Jami

57. “Do you not know that God entrusted you with that money (all above what buys necessities for your families) to feed the hungry, to clothe the naked, to help the stranger, the widow, the fatherless; and, indeed, as far as it will go, to relieve the wants of all mankind? How can you, how dare you, defraud the Lord, by applying it to any other purpose?” - John Wesley

58. “I speak and help some folks only because I believe they may be god in flesh, testing me for politeness.” - Darnell Lamont Walker

59. “Here are the two best prayers I know: 'Help me, help me, help me' and 'Thank you, thank you, thank you.” - Anne Lamott

60. “The best advice I can give to anyone going through a rough patch is to never be afraid to ask for help.” - Demi Lovato

61. “The only mistake you can make is not asking for help.” - Sandeep Jauhar

62. “It's one thing to give out excellent advice, but quite another to personally swallow it.” - Richelle E. Goodrich

63. “I need the kind of help that comes with a side order of help.” - Brad Meltzer

64. “It's by understanding me, and the boys, and mother, that you have helped me. I expect that is the only way one person ever really can help another.” - Willa Cather

65. “We have to harden our hearts and think of the greater good.""The plan is, our exposure to her is supposed to purify us. But it seems more like her exposure to us is diminishing her.” - Bill Willingham

66. “Oh, dear--did I forget to mention that you can, indeed, have it all, but you need a lot of help!” - Will Schwalbe

67. “I could help you,” I said. “Counseling, drugs, a religious advisor, a girlfriend.” - Janet Evanovich

68. “Might there come a timeWhen we stand over a graveAnd mourn ourselves?Mourn the past, a previous life?Shall we weep for the passing of time?Shall we grieve for unfulfilled dreams?In my naivety; in my beliefIn immortal youth, I sleep walk through life.Someone... wake me up.Please.Wake me up.” - Samantha Young

69. “When someone is suffering, there is a deep, visceral reaction in the core of our being, a flood of empathy and a frightfully desperate compulsion to give aid.” - Bryant McGill