Quotes about aid and assistance

"For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do."

Banks, George Linnaeus on aid and assistance
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"HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose"

Blanchard, Ken on aid and assistance   

"The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden."

Brooks, Phillips on aid and assistance
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"When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. on aid and assistance   

"We all need each other."

Buscaglia, Leo on aid and assistance
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"Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn."

Cervantes, Miguel De on aid and assistance
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"Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are."

Diana, Princess of Wales on aid and assistance
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"I've always though that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way."

Diana, Princess of Wales on aid and assistance   

"So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them."

Diana, Princess of Wales on aid and assistance   

"Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can."

Diana, Princess of Wales on aid and assistance   

"Fool that I was, upon my eagle's wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me."

Dryden, John on aid and assistance   

"We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on aid and assistance   

"Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm."

Fuller, Elizabeth on aid and assistance   

"If my daughter, Liza, wants to become an actress, I'll do everything to help her."

Garland, Judy on aid and assistance   

"Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him."

Horace on aid and assistance
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"It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets."

Hurd, Douglas on aid and assistance   

"He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others."

Ingersoll, Robert Green on aid and assistance   

"No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves."

Johnson on aid and assistance
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"To those people in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required, not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."

Kennedy, John F. on aid and assistance   

"Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle."

Kropotkin, Prince Pyotr on aid and assistance   

"And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?"

Long, Haniel on aid and assistance   

"Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help."

Macdonald, George on aid and assistance   

"There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man."

Melville, Herman on aid and assistance   

"Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God --the rest will be given."

Mother Teresa on aid and assistance   

"To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it."

Mother Teresa on aid and assistance
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"It is a kingly act to assist the fallen."

Ovid on aid and assistance   

"Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich."

Peran, Eva on aid and assistance   

"One does nothing who tries to console a despondent person with word. A friend is one who aids with deeds at a critical time when deeds are called for."

Plautus, Titus Maccius on aid and assistance
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"Slow help is no help."

Proverb on aid and assistance   

"We are for aiding our allies by sharing some of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we are against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We are helping 107 We spent $146 billion. With that money, we bought a 2-million-dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity."

Reagan, Ronald on aid and assistance   

"These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. on aid and assistance   

"Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons."

Ruskin, John on aid and assistance   

"We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone."

Scott, Dr. Loretta on aid and assistance
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"The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All therefore that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt."

Scott, Sir Walter on aid and assistance   

"To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole."

Spinoza, Baruch (Benedict de) on aid and assistance   

"If you're in trouble, or hurt or need -- go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help -- the only ones."

Steinbeck, John on aid and assistance
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"The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself."

Szasz, Thomas on aid and assistance
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"A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval."

Twain, Mark on aid and assistance
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"The needs of a human being are sacred. Their satisfaction cannot be subordinated either to reasons of state, or to any consideration of money, nationality, race, or color, or to the moral or other value attributed to the human being in question, or to any consideration whatsoever."

Weil, Simone on aid and assistance   

"It is an eternal obligation toward the human being not to let him suffer from hunger when one has a chance of coming to his assistance."

Weil, Simone on aid and assistance