Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotations on Assistance

The race of mankind would perish, did they cease to aid each other. From the time that the mother binds the child’s head till the moment that some kind assistant wipes the death-damp from the brow of the dying, we cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow-mortals; no one who holds the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
Walter Scott (1771–1832) Scottish Novelist, Poet, Playwright, Lawyer

We all need each other.
Leo Buscaglia (1924–98) American Motivational Speaker

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 Plautus) (c.250–184 BCE) Roman Comic Playwright

No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
Samuel Johnson (1709–84) British Essayist

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–82) American Philosopher

Slow help is no help.
Common Proverb

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton (1803–73) British Novelist, Poet, Politician

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 (1631–1700) English Poet, Literary Critic, Playwright

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.
Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) (65–8 BCE) Roman Poet

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 (1882–1945) American Head of State, Lawyer

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American Humorist

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 (1910–97) Roman Catholic Missionary, Nun

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Robert G. Ingersoll (1833–99) American Lawyer, Orator, Agnostic

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 (1902–68) American Novelist, Short Story Writer, Journalist

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) (c.43 BCE–c.18 CE) Roman Poet

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 Peron (1919–52) Argentinean Politician, Social Reformer

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 (1911–2004) American Head of State

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 Spinoza (1632–77) Dutch Philosopher, Theologian

Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
George MacDonald (1824–1905) Scottish Novelist, Lecturer, Poet

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.
John F. Kennedy (1917–63) American Head of State, Journalist

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 (1909–1943) French Philosopher, Political Activist

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–97) English Royal, Humanitarian, Peace Activist

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 (1835–93) American Episcopal Clergyman, Author

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 (1819–1900) English Writer, Art Critic

If my daughter, Liza, wants to become an actress, I’ll do everything to help her.
Judy Garland (1922–69) American Actress, Singer

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 (1819–91) American Novelist, Short Story Writer, Essayist, Poet

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish Novelist

HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose
Ken Blanchard (b.1939) American Author, Management Consultant

Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.
Diana, Princess of Wales (1961–97) English Royal, Humanitarian, Peace Activist

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