Arthur Helps
Arthur Helps
Sir Arthur Helps KCB HonDCLwas an English writer and dean of the Privy Council. He was a Cambridge Apostle...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionHistorian
Date of Birth10 July 1813
ego selfishness world
Selfishness, when it is punished by the world, is mostly punished because it is connected with egotism.
men light decision
No man who has not sat in the assemblies of men can know the light, odd and uncertain ways in which decisions are often arrived at.
opinion argument
We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.
inspirational wise gratitude
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
organization order routine
Routine is not organization, any more than paralysis is order.
inspirational spiritual heart
Keep your feet on the ground, but let your heart soar as high as it will. Refuse to be average or to surrender to the chill of your spiritual environment.
reading book men
Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written.
beauty humility grace
There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity, modesty and humility, a gracious temper and calmness of spirit; and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.
success business congratulations
In a balanced organization, working towards a common objective, there is success.
thinking men deceived
Do not be deceived into thinking that how a man acts is the full picture.
reading sometimes avoiding
Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought.
men empathy understanding
It takes a great man to make a great listener
mixtures recipes affection
A mixture of admiration and pity is one of the surest recipes for affection.
leadership party eye
Those who are successfully to lead their fellow-men, should have once possessed the nobler feelings. We have all known individuals whose magnanimity was not likely to be troublesome on any occasion; but then they betrayed their own interests by unwisely omitting the consideration, that such feelings might exist in the breasts of those whom they had to guide and govern: for they themselves cannot even remember the time when in their eyes justice appeared preferable to expediency, the happiness of others to self-interest, or the welfare of a State to the advancement of a party.