These aid quotes will inspire you. Aid help, typically of a practical nature.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging aid quotes, aid sayings, and aid proverbs.
Best Aid Quotes
- “You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for his own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.” Marie Curie
- “I do not think that abortion services should be part of our foreign aid funding in any way.” Erin O’Toole
- “With eye upraised his master’s looks to scan, The joy, the solace, and the aid of man; The rich man’s guardian, and the poor man’s friend, The only creature faithful to the end.” George Crabbe
- “The notion that aid can alleviate systemic poverty, and has done so, is a myth. Millions in Africa are poorer today because of aid; misery and poverty have not ended but increased. Aid has been, and continues to be, an unmitigated political, economic, and humanitarian disaster for most parts of the developing world.” Dambisa Moyo
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“Legal aid is central to righting wrongs and rectifying injustice.” Sadiq Khan
- “Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.” William Ellery Channing
- “Under the Constitution, giving ‘aid and comfort’ to a wartime enemy can lead to a charge of treason.” Walter Cronkite
- “Act boldly and unseen forces will come to your aid.” Dorothea Brande
- “We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man’s estate, is the gift of education.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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“Take some time to learn first aid and CPR. It saves lives, and it works.” Bobby Sherman
- “Poetry has the ability to create entire moments with just a few choice words. The spacing and line breaks create rhythm, a helpful musicality, a natural flow. The separate stanzas aid in perpetuating a kind of incremental reading, one small chunk at a time.” Jason Reynolds
- “Each one of my budgets has taken a meat axe to foreign aid, because I think we ought to quit sending it to countries that hate us.” Rand Paul
- “Colleges prefer to enroll wealthy students because they know it’s more likely that they’ll pay for full tuition without needing financial aid. They’re also more likely to have parents who will donate large sums of money to the school. When the privileged students graduate, they’re expected to join the alumni association and also donate cash.” Ana Kasparian
- “For American foreign aid to become more effective, it must embrace the power of partnerships, access the transformative nature of free enterprise, and leverage the abundant resources that can come from the private sector.” Mitt Romney
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“Fortune cannot aid those who do nothing.” Sophocles
- “A country that relies on aid? Death is better than that. It stops you from achieving your potential, just as colonialism did.” Imran Khan
- “Live Aid turned our world upside down.” John Deacon
- “Aid can work where there is good governance, and usually fails where governments are unable or unwilling to commit aid to improve the lives of their people.” Lee H. Hamilton
- “Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.” Deepak Chopra
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“The solutions to Africa’s problems lie in Africa, not in Live Aid concerts.” George Ayittey
- “Apart from the emergency aid we provide to alleviate the sufferings of victims of natural disasters, calamities and crises, we worked for transforming U.A.E.’s charity activities into an institutional activity with an aim of making them more effective and sustainable.” Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
- “Taking care of children has nothing to do with politics. I think perhaps with time, instead of there being a politicization of humanitarian aid, there will be a humanization of politics.” Audrey Hepburn
- “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
- ” ‘Dead Aid’ is about the inefficacy and the limitations of large-scale aid programs in creating economic growth and reducing poverty in Africa.” Dambisa Moyo
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“To make sustainable progress in reducing extreme poverty will require improvements in both the quantity and quality of aid.” Peter Singer
- “My diet is mostly composed of whole-grain cereals, legumes, beans, lentils. Lots of cooked, baked, or steamed vegetables. Lots of spices like curcumin or cumin that help aid digestion. Some superfoods.” Adam Ondra
- “Can we really believe that we are living a good life, an ethically decent life if we don’t do anything serious to help reduce poverty around the world and help save the lives of children or adults who are likely to die if we don’t increase the amount of aid we are giving.” Peter Singer
- “Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.” Maria Montessori
- “Your retirement comes before your children’s tuition. That’s because there’s no financial aid for retirement, and there’s still a good deal available for college.” Jean Chatzky
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“Our humanitarian aid system is sick and needs to be fixed. It needs to get a reality check and get back humanity.” Joanne Liu
- “In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.” Aristotle
- “The half minute which we daily devote to the winding-up of our watches is an exertion of labour almost insensible; yet, by the aid of a few wheels, its effect is spread over the whole twenty-four hours.” Charles Babbage
- “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.” Walter Scott
- “The Chinese go around with lollipops in their pockets. They have aid. They have friendship deals. They build you a Prime Minister’s office or President’s office or Parliament House or Foreign Ministry. For them, trade is an extension of their foreign policy.”Lee Hsien Loong
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“Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade, And keeps that palace of the soul serene.” Edmund Waller
- “Well, mutual aid is a very critical and important thing. For a while, I was saying libertarians have no souls, but I promised them I wouldn’t if they hammered home the importance of mutual aid.” Vermin Supreme
- “Legal aid gets a bad press. Some rail against handing taxpayers’ money to criminals; others attack fat cat lawyers, while some argue that we spend far more on legal aid than other countries. But let’s get some facts straight: saying that legal aid is just about criminals is wrong – most goes to people before any decision is taken on their guilt. “Sadiq Khan
- “We have this American president, Obama, born of an African father, who is saying we will not give you aid if you don’t embrace homosexuality. We ask, was he born out of homosexuality? We need continuity in our race, and that comes from the woman, and no to homosexuality.” Robert Mugabe
- “Conscious of my own weakness, I can only seek fervently the guidance of the Ruler of the Universe, and, relying on His all-powerful aid, do my best to restore Union and peace to a suffering people, and to establish and guard their liberties and rights.” George B. McClellan
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“Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can’t stop to count it.” Evita Peron
- “In Europe, we have three tools when it comes to fair competition. One is antitrust, one is merger control, and the third is state aid control. And the third you don’t have in the States.” Margrethe Vestager
- “Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I’m going to Viet Nam’s aid!” Lyndon B. Johnson
- “I’ve said that the era of the inevitable closure of community hospitals is over because I want community hospitals increasingly to become community health hubs where you have the physios, some of the day cases, the GPs, mental health services and some of the charity-provided services like Aid UK.” Matt Hancock
- “Rhyme is a mnemonic device, an aid to the memory. And some poems are themselves mnemonics, that is to say, the whole purpose of the poem is to enable us to remember some information.” James Fenton
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“To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.” Maria Montessori
- “We view ourselves on the eve of battle. We are nerved for the conquest and must conquer or perish. It is vain to look for present aid: None is at hand. We must now act or abandon all hope!” Sam Houston
- “So most days I don’t wear makeup, but I do like this liquid eyeliner from Prestige Cosmetics in Icon that I think you can get at any Rite Aid.” Sasha Spielberg
- “Only as far as the masters of the world have called in nature to their aid, can they reach the height of magnificence. This is the meaning of their hanging-gardens, villas, garden-houses, islands, parks, and preserves.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
- “I wish we questioned the aid model as much as we are questioning the capitalism model. Sometimes the most generous thing you can do is just say no.” Dambisa Moyo
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“Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.” Margaret Fuller
- “By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign aid, and is completely master of itself, as the dancer of his feet, or the boxer of his hands.” Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- “Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.” Will Rogers
- “In our society, authority derives from justice, and in our society, learning to live with authority should derive from and aid learning to understand and to feel justice.” Lawrence Kohlberg
- “Unknown in Paris, I was lost in the great city, but the feeling of living there alone, taking care of myself without any aid, did not at all depress me. If sometimes I felt lonesome, my usual state of mind was one of calm and great moral satisfaction.” Marie Curie
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“U.S. foreign aid must be used more strategically to achieve our national security goals.” Richard Grenell
- “Thanks to aid, a distressing number of African leaders care little about what their citizens want or need – after all it’s the reverse of the Boston tea-party – no representation without taxation.” Dambisa Moyo
- “We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aid, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn.” Henry David Thoreau
- “In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.” Paul Kagame
- “In this financial year we will be spending at least $1.5 billion on foreign aid and we cannot be sure that this money will be properly spent, as corruption and mismanagement in many of the recipient countries are legend.” Pauline Hanson
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“There was no pressure or blackmail from the U.S. I had no idea the military aid was held up.” Volodymyr Zelensky
- “Nontraditional students often have the misconception that aid is intended only for high school students entering college. Luckily, that’s not the case.” Jean Chatzky
- “While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day.” Robert E. Lee
- “The black artist’s role in America is to aid in the destruction of America as he knows it. “Amiri Baraka
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“Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.” Pythagoras
- “There are two things in the painter, the eye and the mind; each of them should aid the other.” Paul Cezanne
