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.

— George Linnaeus Banks

HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose

— Ken Blanchard

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.

— Phillips Brooks

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

We all need each other.

— Leo Buscaglia

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

— Miguel De Cervantes

Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.

— Princess of Wales Diana

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.

— Princess of Wales Diana

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

— Princess of Wales Diana

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

— Princess of Wales Diana

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.

— John Dryden

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

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

— Elizabeth Fuller

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

— Judy Garland

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

— Horace

It is not helpful to help a friend by putting coins in his pockets when he has got holes in his pockets.

— Douglas Hurd

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

— Robert Green Ingersoll

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

— Johnson

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

— Prince Pyotr Kropotkin

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

— Haniel Long

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

— George Macdonald

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.

— Herman Melville

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

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

— Mother Teresa

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

— Ovid

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.

— Eva Peran

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.

— Titus Maccius Plautus

Slow help is no help.

— Proverb

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.

— Ronald Reagan

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.

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

— John Ruskin

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

— Dr. Loretta Scott

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.

— Sir Walter Scott

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.

— Baruch (Benedict de) Spinoza

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.

— John Steinbeck

The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

— Thomas Szasz

A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.

— Mark Twain

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.

— Simone Weil

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.

— Simone Weil