Top 240 Helpful Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Helpful Quotes from famous people such as Alex Morgan, Jessica Chastain, Box Brown, Gary Numan, Diego Luna, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

I'm a big advocate of starting soccer young and always

I’m a big advocate of starting soccer young and always having the ball at your foot, but that’s because I didn’t do that. If I’d focused more on that when I was a kid, it would’ve been so helpful. It took me, like, halfway through college to feel comfortable with the ball.
Alex Morgan
I find it very interesting: when 90 percent of the critics that review films are men, how is that helpful when trying to create stories from a feminine point of view?
Jessica Chastain
I think comics is a really good way to talk about skepticism and atheism and things like that… it was easy to tell those stories and, I think, helpful to some people to tell them in comic form. Using visuals makes it easier to break stuff down and makes it somewhat easier to understand.
Box Brown
Any time anyone says anything nice about me, whether it’s Lady Gaga or your neighbor, it’s a nice feeling, I’m very grateful for it. It’s very helpful for your career. Every time someone says something complimentary it introduces you to their audience. It gives you credibility.
Gary Numan
I started tweeting with the first film I directed. I found it the best way to promote it and to connect to the audience, and since then, it’s been very helpful.
Diego Luna
We certainly had our share of failures early on and worked on a bunch of canceled sitcoms, which were very helpful in learning.
Christopher Miller
One of the great things about cricket, and certainly something that I found helpful, was that as soon as you step over the boundary rope you can switch off everything that is happening off the field and focus solely on what is happening out on the pitch.
Glenn McGrath
I don’t go through life thinking I’m on a conveyer belt I can’t jump off, but sometimes it’s helpful to think that things are out of your control.
Alice Levine
Costume design is so important and really helpful, and I really love that aspect of character development, just figuring it out.
Katherine Waterston
To say the Internet is the death of books and movies is like saying someone invented a new, more efficient kind of cup and it heralds the death of coffee – a new improved form of carrying something, which is essentially what the Internet is, should be helpful to our business.
Alison Owen
A guaranteed basic income has the potential for making civic organizations, families and neighborhoods much more vital, helpful and responsive than they have been in decades.
Charles Murray
Vatsal is helpful, observant and chivalrous. What I dislike is that he never experiments with food.
Ishita Dutta
I do know a lot about Scientology. And I know about the practices. I know all about what the technology is and all that kind of stuff. It’s very helpful.
Jennifer Lopez
I love readings and my readers, but the din of voices of the audience gives me stage fright, and the din of voices inside whisper that I am a fraud, and that the jig is up. Surely someone will rise up from the audience and say out loud that not only am I not funny and helpful, but I’m annoying, and a phony.
Anne Lamott
One evening, Mike Myers and Steven Spielberg were discussing ‘Goldmember,’ and I just happened to joke, ‘If you need a Japanese character, let me know!’ The next day, they called me for audition! I find it’s always helpful to maintain a sense of humour.
Nobu Matsuhisa
When sermons start where people live – their questions, struggles, and concerns – and then offer a timely and helpful word from the Scriptures, people are more interested in hearing what else the Scriptures have to say.
Adam Hamilton
If I can share something that is helpful, enlightening, make someone laugh, and maybe even make someone laugh at themselves, then I am happy.
Sonja Morgan
Since I started in Nascar, popularity has definitely gone up. I’ve become more attractive and helpful to companies that are looking for spokespersons. So from that perspective, things are going really well.
Danica Patrick
I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter’s age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.
Joyce Maynard
There have been many occasions when I found it helpful to talk out loud to my own thoughts, ordering the unwholesome ones to go off somewhere and jump into the river.
Vash Young
I don’t think it’s helpful to put them all in a box and say people are evil and freaks because they have gotten to the point where they have fallen out of the community of what it is to be a human being. That’s worthy of investigation.
Rebecca Hall
There is nothing like roast chicken. It is helpful and agreeable, the perfect dish no matter what the circumstances. Elegant or homey, a dish for a dinner party or a family supper, it will not let you down.
Laurie Colwin
When our most important issue is the debt that we’re piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it’s pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
Carly Fiorina
The Strait of Hormuz is an international waterway, and it is not helpful for any nation to suggest that it would attempt to restrict traffic through the strait.
John C. Stennis
Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality, a natural flow. The separate stanzas aid in perpetuating a kind of incremental reading, one small chunk at a time.
Jason Reynolds
Well, you can’t say you are lucky to live in Champaign, but I was lucky to be at the University of Illinois. It’s a very international cosmopolitan community. That’s very helpful.
Sayed Kashua
When you’re climbing with someone who always sees the bright spot, even if there is no bright spot, that attitude is really helpful.
Kevin Jorgeson
As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications.
Bill Maris
So, for me the town hall meetings are really an opportunity to engage in two-way dialogue with people, and they’ve been very helpful.
Jack Markell
Triple H and all the coaches have been very helpful and supportive of everything that I have done.
Bayley
You don’t have to travel, but I find extended travel to be a helpful tool for reexamining yourself and the constraints you’ve artificially placed on your life. It’s easy to believe everything has to be done one way if you’re always in one place around the same people.
Tim Ferriss
I know I've had a charmed experience of being a parent,

I know I’ve had a charmed experience of being a parent, with healthy kids, a helpful partner, access to good day care, and great public schools.
Rumaan Alam
If you have a passion and love for something, it’s hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I’d make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
Vicky McClure
I keep making the music I do because I feel very purposeful about making things that would be helpful or quell some loneliness in people. I really needed that when I listened to music growing up and even now, so I don’t mind that sense of duty.
Perfume Genius
I sing in Hungarian. I read Hungarian. I do not pretend to speak Hungarian, but I sing in languages that I have studied as languages. And I find that to be central and very, very helpful. I think if you’re not really cognizant of what every single word means, I think that might be a little tricky.
Jessye Norman
I can be incredibly focused, and I can appear impatient. So I’ve learned to slow down, get to know people, and provide more context. There’s nothing wrong with getting to the point pretty quickly, but it’s also helpful to give people an opportunity to talk about their work.
Lynn Good
The tour of South Africa is a tough one and if you start thinking like this before it then it is not helpful for anyone.
Sarfaraz Ahmed
Of course, tax revenues have ended up being substantially higher than they were at the time these dire projections were made, and we are very close now to having a balanced budget. All that has been very helpful.
Charles Vest
That’s the spirit in which I went to New York to be with my husband, and when I knocked on the hotel door, she opened the door as Caitlyn as we now know her – full makeup and fully dressed as a woman. So it was devastating to me to see because I had envisioned Bruce opening the door, but it was helpful in my process.
Linda Thompson
I don’t write anything that I haven’t lived. In terms of integrity, you have to write what you live. And if you write beyond what you live, it is theory. And theory is not helpful. It is just not.
John Eldredge
As an individual, I’ve learnt a lot about life – some things that proved to be helpful and some things I wish I never knew.
Fawad Khan
If you’re going to love animals and have a life with them, the odds are you’re going to lose them. It’s helpful when you get a dog to accept the fact that this dog is not going to be with you your whole life.
Jon Katz
I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it’s great, but it’s also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.
Amanda Palmer
I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in ideas, stimulation, entertainment, and mental activity, all helpful to the nurture of an imaginative child who wanted from an early age to be a writer.
Stephen Hunter
In my work as an emergency physician, I know that checklists can be helpful. They ensure complex procedures are done thoroughly and provide an extra assurance for safety. But they can also result in a ‘cookbook’ approach, where you get the same recipe of tests and medications as everyone else.
Leana S. Wen