Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 1434 |
| AUTHOR: | Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909) |
| QUOTATION: | Look up and not down; Look forward and not back; Look out and not in; Lend a Hand. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The first Lend a Hand Club was founded in 1871, followed by the incorporation of a league of clubs, the Lend a Hand Society, in 1891. Edward E. Hale, who founded the first club in Boston, Massachusetts, later became chaplain to the United States Senate. See also No. 899. |
| SUBJECTS: | Positive thinking |