Top 240 Helpful Quotes

You just have to be helpful and supportive and of course knowing that when I am recalled I’ll get back at my best so the team is going to be there for me too.
Davinson Sanchez
I know about having days off. They can be helpful sometimes, especially late in the year. It’s just key to go out there and establish early, especially in this park where they can put up some crooked numbers early.
Dontrelle Willis
When I was a youngster, Praveen Kumar was in the same club as me, and because we are similar bowlers, I learnt a lot from him. We used to have conversations, but not a lot. What was very helpful was observing what he was bowling, the kind of fields he had, and what his thinking was.
Bhuvneshwar Kumar
It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, ‘If I don’t succeed, I’ll go back to school and study.’
Olivia Wilde
Speaking out about multiple sclerosis to others who may be dealing with this disease is actually helpful to me as well as, I hope, to others. It builds community, helps bring awareness to MS, and strengthens the MS movement that will ultimately lead to the end of this disease.
Teri Garr
Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That’s where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
Taylor Sheridan
I think we find that it’s most helpful when we have both of our brains applied to an issue.
Joe Russo
I really appreciate the fact that with my job I can encourage people, especially young women, and if I find something that’s helpful, I like to share that knowledge.
Miranda Kerr
I have better peripheral vision in my left. It is quite hard to remain optimistic, but I have found the Macular Society, of whom I’ve been an enthusiastic supporter for nine years, tremendously helpful in providing support.
Denis Norden
You see these young people in Antigonish who are coming from Cape Breton, and these are really smart, attractive young people, who are living in a place that’s been very rough economically. It’s a very special thing to be helpful there.
Gerry Schwartz
I try to keep a positive intention and use whatever resources I have to benefit others. I try to create businesses that I think are not hurtful. I try to do things that I think are helpful to the environment, to the animals, and to the planet.
Russell Simmons
I’m always amused when the ‘New York Times’ writes editorials trying to be helpful to Republicans and say, ‘This is the way Republicans can save themselves.’ Look, the ‘New York Times’ disagrees with us. They’re entitled to disagree with us, but it’s not like we should take their advice.
Ted Cruz
I think a certain degree of pessimism is actually helpful to love.
Alain de Botton
If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.
Winston Churchill
Prudence is not the same thing as caution. Caution is a helpful strategy when you’re crossing a minefield; it’s a disaster when you’re in a gold rush.
John Ortberg
I always found that really helpful; talking something through and vocalising what’s wrong. I’ve found that internalising things just makes them come up in uglier ways further down the line, so it’s definitely something I’ve tried to maintain throughout my life.
Arlo Parks
There was one time I flagged every ‘Brokeback Mountain’ review on Netflix that was negative. I was, like, ‘not helpful,’ and I spent, like, an hour doing it, and I wrote a really serious review about it. It’s hard for me not to get really sensitive. I don’t brush things off like that very easily.
Perfume Genius
It is helpful for a woman artist not to have a husband.
Jeanette Winterson
As in all of biology, comparative studies showing differences among species are often helpful for a better understanding of the basic mechanisms; with all its advantages, there is a danger of clinging exclusively to one model organism.
John Tyler Bonner
A lot of my career is mental, and I just have so much perspective from being raised in a city like Detroit and being able to come and live the life that I do now. To see that broad of a spectrum is really helpful for relating to people and feeling them.
Bazzi
It's always good to bat at the top, where you get more

It’s always good to bat at the top, where you get more opportunities, but sometimes crucial 30s and 40s can be very helpful for the team. Ultimately it is a team sport. Personal records don’t matter much if your team ends up on the losing side.
Suresh Raina
The process of learning how to defend my body, how to own my space and take away space from other people, and getting me in touch with my masculine, testosterone-heavy side, from a personal development standpoint, it was really helpful to me – as well as releasing aggression and frustration.
Zoe Buckman
It was as helpful as throwing a drowning man both ends of the rope.
Arthur Baer
Well, it’s because I gladly acknowledge some ideas that are part of process theology, but which I think are not tied to all the details of process thought, and are very illuminating and helpful.
John Polkinghorne
When I was in the private sector, one characteristic that differentiated the best entrepreneurs from the others was that they were not in it for the stock options, but for a mission – to deliver something that was helpful… Every entrepreneurial journey, it turns out, is like this.
Todd Park
A duty is to be chosen from what is virtuous, and from what is useful, and also from the comparison of the two, one with the other; but nothing is recognized by Christians as virtuous or useful which is not helpful to the future life.
Saint Ambrose
I know one writer who has been subscribing authors without their permission and sending out what she thinks are helpful advice sheets, but they come off as if she’s a know-it-all. She thinks she’s marketing herself and her work. All she’s really doing is turning readers off.
M. J. Rose
I think I would want to be a therapist or sociologist. I love talking to people about their relationships and life problems, understanding where it comes from, and giving insight that’s helpful. Also, it would be fun to just marry rich and vacation a lot. That’s my real second choice.
Erin Foster
I’ve talked to my dad about road course racing more than anybody. I feel like he was a very underrated road course racer, so he’s probably been more helpful than anybody even at HMS.
Chase Elliott
The Irish people were willing to take me at face value, to give me the benefit of the doubt because I was a Kennedy. I think being a Kennedy was extremely helpful.
Jean Kennedy Smith
If something seems like a little venue, don’t treat it like that. Do it all. If you’re sort of wondering why you’re doing something at some location, just do it – any size theater, production, or whatever. It’s all helpful.
Fred Armisen
Our field is very focused on finding Earth 2.0, and anything we can do to narrow the search is helpful.
Debra Fischer
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot
Pretty much all children are helpful to act with; they lack any guile when they act.
Mark Rylance
Mushrooms have many helpful nutrients, including beta glucans for immune enhancement, ergothioneines for antioxidative potentiation, nerve growth stimulators for helping brain function, and antimicrobial compounds for limiting viruses.
Paul Stamets
History can be helpful in making sense of the world we live in. It can also be fascinating, even fun.
Margaret MacMillan
Whatever I can be helpful with, I’d like to be helpful with.
Haim Saban
I taught a master class in film in France, and that was a great experience because I got a chance to study the French film culture and the French film history, so to add… just to expand myself just personally and professionally was really helpful.
F. Gary Gray
Meditation has been very, very helpful. You know, even if it’s just 5 minutes a day.
Noah Centineo
I have a worm’s eye view and a bird’s eye view simultaneously and it’s immensely helpful to understand what is happening on the shop floor when you are harnessing many talents and telling an intimate story on a large scale.
Richard Eyre
I can swing widely in both directions of helpful or not.
Gayle Rankin
I am well aware that, if my endorsement is meaningful and helpful to Huckabee, it is because my father devoted so much of his life and ministry to cultural reform.
Jerry Falwell, Jr.
Being different means you are noticed more, and sometimes that has been helpful.
Kemi Badenoch