Great Throughts Treasury

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Chinese Proverbs

People in the same boat should help each other.

People |

Dale Carnegie, originally spelled Dale Carnegey

Don't laugh at a child's ambitions. There is no sting so sharp as ridicule, and a laugh is often ridicule to a child. What a parent should do when he knows his child is overreaching, is to talk it over with him from every angle, and, if possible, find an angle from which the job can be attacked with hope of success. Then urge him forward, give him every encouragement. Above all, don't help your child to do something that he can accomplish on his own. Don't deny him the priceless privilege and thrill of developing his own success.

Hope | Ridicule | Success | Child | Parent | Privilege |

Copthorne Macdonald

The concept of a life experiment can help us get past the fear of failure. The only real failure is not to experiment.

Experiment | Failure | Fear | Life | Life | Past | Failure |

Dag Hammarskjöld

When you are irritated by his ‘pretentiousness’, you betray the character of your own: it is just as it should be that he increases while you decrease. Choose your opponents. To the wrong ones, you cannot afford to give a thought, but you must help the right ones, help them and yourself in a contest without tension.

Character | Right | Thought | Wrong |

Dwight Eisenhower, fully Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower

We must never forget that international friendship is achieved through rumors ignored, propaganda challenged and exposed; through patient loyalty to those who have proved themselves worthy of it; through help freely given, where help is need and merited... Peace is more a product of our day-to-day living than of a spectacular program, intermittently executed.

Day | Loyalty | Loyalty | Need | Peace | Friendship | Propaganda |

Elias Canetti

All the things one has forgotten scream for help in dreams.

Dreams |

Emily Dickinson, fully Emily Elizabeth Dickinson

If I can stop one heart from breaking I shall not live in vain. If I can ease one Life the Aching Or cool one pain Or help one fainting Robin Unto his nest again I shall not live in vain.

Heart | Life | Life | Pain |

Epicurus NULL

It is not so much our friend's help that helps us as the confidence of their help.

Confidence | Friend |

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone; For the sad old earth must borrow its mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air; The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care. Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go; They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do not need your woe. Be glad, and your friends are many; Be sad, and you lose them all,— There are none to decline your nectared wine, But alone you must drink life’s gall. Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by. Succeed and give, and it helps you live, But no man can help you die. There is room in the halls of pleasure For a large and lordly train, But one by one we must all file on Through the narrow aisles of pain

Earth | Enough | Man | Men | Need | Will | World | Trouble | Friends | Old |

Elbert Green Hubbard

Often we can help each other most by leaving each other alone; at other times we need the hand-grasp and the word of cheer.

Need |

Elbert Green Hubbard

Thinkers help other people to think, for they formulate what others are thinking. No person writes or thinks alone; thought is in the air but its expression is necessary to create a tangible spirit of the times.

People | Spirit | Thinkers | Thinking | Thought | Thought |

Elbert Green Hubbard

Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.

Men | Truth | Wise |

Felix Adler

We live truly in our radiations. We grow and develop in proportion as we help others to grow and develop.

Frank Crane

Humility is the wish to be great and the dread of being called great. It is the wish to help and the dread of thanks. It is the love of service and the distaste for rule. It is trying to be good and blushing when caught at it.

Dread | Good | Humility | Love | Rule | Service |

Franklin D. Roosevelt, fully Franklin Delano Roosevelt, aka FDR

The motto of war is: "Let the strong survive; let the weak die." The motto of peace is: "Let the strong help the weak to survive."

Peace | War |

French Proverbs

Fortune helps him that's willing to help himself.

Fortune |

Galileo Galilei, known simply as Galileo

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

Man | Teach |

George Bernard Shaw

Your purpose in life is simply to help on the purpose of the universe.

Life | Life | Purpose | Purpose | Universe |