Ronald Reagan Quotes

So when you try hard to make your own way, you will help others...before you make your own way you cannot help anyone, and no one can help you.

You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.

Is it important to have a crew behind me? No, it's important to have me behind them. That's how I look at it. You can't just roll with a situation like you're depending on somebody to help you. You're supposed to help the situation, whatever the situation is that you're in.

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

As Aunt Naomi was listing all the things she was going to do to help this person, her friend stopped her in mid-sentence. "Naomi, girl," she said, "you need to resign as general manager of the universe. You need to learn that sometimes the best way to help a person is to let them help themselves. Otherwise, they never learn how. And they are always going to make their problems your problems."

Ps. I am pretty certain Beyonce doesn't need you fighting any battles on her account. Seems like she's got everything covered perfectly well on her own.

A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

The wide world is full of people wanting help, Jon. Would that some could find the courage to help themselves. - Lord Commander Mormont

These words reveal the child’s inner needs; ‘Help me to do it alone’.

I can't help you if you won't help yourself.

The ideal of helping is to make others independent of you. You help them to become more independent rather than making them addicted to you.

That's the only way we're going to get through these programs. That is true compassion. Having people become dependent on others is not compassion at all.

If I were capable of assisting someone, I would do it in a manner that would cause the person seeking assistance to work, so he assists himself.

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift.

I want people to provide for themselves.

I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views.

I'm not looking for guidance.

You just have to have the guidance to lead you in the direction until you can do it yourself.

Our aim is to help the clients help themselves, not to tell them what to think.

People ask me how I manage without a man in the same tone they might ask someone how they're doing with just one lung, but it's not like that at all.

Helping those who have been struck by unforeseeable misfortunes is fundamentally different from making dependency a way of life.

I am a very independent person, and I, you know, I maintain that independence, but, you know, certain things - I mean, it takes, you know, it's just much easier for other people if other people can help you every now and again.

I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.

It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, 'Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.'

When charity perpetuates dependency and subordination, it is unjust…. You can help desperately needy people in ways that disempower them and turn them into permanent clients, or you can help them in ways that promote their independence and enable them to help themselves.