For the cause that lacks assistance, The wrong that needs resistance, For the future in the distance, And the good that I can do.
HELP = H(umor), E-go, edging God out, L-istening, P-urpose
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.
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
We all need each other.
Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.
Whoever is in the distress can call me. I will come running wherever they are.
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.
So many people supported me through my public life and I will never forget them.
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.
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.
We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
If my daughter, Liza, wants to become an actress, I'll do everything to help her.
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.
He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
No one will persist long in helping someone who will not help themselves.
— Johnson
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.
Mutual aid is as much a law of animal life as mutual struggle.
And who is any of us, that without starvation he can go through the kingdoms of starvation?
Nothing makes one feel so strong as a call for help.
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.
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.
To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Every great man is always being helped by everybody; for his gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.
We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.
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.
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.
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.
The proverb warns; Don't bite the hand that feeds you. But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.
A man cannot be made comfortable without his own approval.
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.
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.