Quote by Andrew Carnegie
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help the

There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself. – Andrew Carnegie

Other quotes by Andrew Carnegie

There is no class so pitiably wretched as that which possesses money and nothing else. – Andrew Carnegie

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Money
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The morality of compromise sounds contradictory. Compromise is usually a sign of weakness, or an admission of defeat. Strong men dont compromise, it is said, and principles should never be compromised. – Andrew Carnegie

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Men
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When a blind man carries a lame man both go forward. – Swedish Proverb

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Progress

If you improve or tinker with something long enough, eventually it will break or malfunction. – Arthur Bloch

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Progress

As the twentieth century ends, commerce and culture are coming closer together. The distinction between life and art has been eroded by fifty years of enhanced communications, ever-improving reproduction technologies and increasing wealth. – Stephen Bayley

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Progress

The grandest of all laws is the law of progressive development. Under it, in the wide sweep of things, men grow wiser as they grow older, and societies better. – Christian Nevell Bovee

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Random Quotes

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another – too often ending in the loss of both. – Tryon Edwards

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good

The body is but a pair of pincers set over a bellows and a stew pan and the whole fixed upon stilts. – Samuel Butler, Notebooks

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Body

We have two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice and another which we practice but seldom preach. – Bertrand Russell

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Hypocrisy

If youre a champion, you have to have it in your heart. – Chris Evert