Charity famous quotes

Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.
-- Aaron Hill

#Shining #Mind #Charity

I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
-- Abbe Pierre

#Charity #Share #Made

Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
-- Al Capp

#Work #Office #Charity

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.
-- Aldous Huxley

#Real #Progress #Charity

Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.
-- Alex Meraz

#Support #Charity #Helping

In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
-- Alexander Pope

#World #Charity #Hope And Faith

Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
-- Alexander Pope

#Home #Charity #Fool

When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
-- Alexander Pope

#Giving #Alive #Charity

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.
-- Alexei Sayle

#Cities #Cobblers #Charity

Without charity, there is no salvation.
-- Allan Kardec

#Charity #Salvation

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.
-- Alphonsus Liguori

#Winning #Evil #Charity

Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
-- Amos Bronson Alcott

#Truth #School #Charity

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.
-- Andrew Carnegie

#Giving #Charity #Firsts

Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
-- Andrew Carnegie

#People #Ego #Charity

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
-- Anne Baxter

#Unity #Liberty #Charity

Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.
-- Anne Catherine Emmerich

#Heart #Men #Charity

An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.
-- Anthony Mary Claret

#Heart #Missionary #Charity

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#Gratitude #Charity #Made

A large heart can be filled with very little.
-- Antonio Porchia

#Heart #Charity #Littles

The work of volunteers impacts on all our lives, even if we are not aware of it.
-- Antony Worrall Thompson

#Impact #Volunteer #Charity

I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.
-- Arabella Weir

#Charity #Requirements

Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.
-- Arpad Busson

#Charity #Treats #Donors

Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.
-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Giving #Atheism #Charity

Education cannot be a matter of charity, Education has to be a matter of Right.
-- Arvind Kejriwal

#Charity #Matter

Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.
-- Baroness Orczy

#Judging #Charity #Littles

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
-- Ben Kingsley

#Voice #Actors #Charity

And I have found that when we Catholics, in the spirit of love and charity, declare our faith boldly and with conviction, we are more likely to find kindred spirits. This is how we must comport ourselves if we are to fulfill our Lord's command in the Gospel of John (17:21), Ut unum sint, that all may be one.
-- Benedict Groeschel

#Catholic #Charity #May

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'
-- Benjamin Franklin

#Charity #Philanthropy #Rich

When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
-- Benjamin Whichcote

#Charity

A benefactor is a representative of God.
-- Benjamin Whichcote

#Charity #Benefactors

Charity you can give even when you haven't got.
-- Bernard Malamud

#Giving #Charity

I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.
-- Bernard Marcus

#Charity #Active

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
-- Bernard of Clairvaux

#Poison #Charity #Slander

In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.
-- Bertrand Russell

#Charity #Would Be #World

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.
-- Bethenny Frankel

#People #Charity #Admire

I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go back to get more charity food.
-- Betty Smith

#Giving #Charity #Want

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.
-- Bill Moyers

#Justice #Charity #Tables

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.
-- Bill Wyman

#Photography #Museums #Charity

Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins.
-- Bob Dylan

#Cover Ups #Charity #Sin

But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities.
-- Bobby Sherman

#Charity #Deals #Supporter

Actually, I have my own charity that I started that helps supplement families with terminal children.
-- Brad Garrett

#Children #Charity #Helping

The source of justice is not vengeance but charity.
-- Bridget of Sweden

#Justice #Charity #Vengeance

The doctrines contained in the Bible will lift to a superior condition all who observe them; they will impart to them knowledge, wisdom, charity, fill them with compassion and cause them to feel after the wants of those who are in distress.
-- Brigham Young

#Compassion #Doctrine #Charity

In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Justice #Charity #Spheres

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
-- C. S. Lewis

#Prayer #Helping Others #Charity

I am in charity, my children, with all the servants of God.
-- Caedmon

#Children #Charity #My Children

Absolutely nothing brings out the killer instinct in the upper crust of New York Society like a charity function.
-- Caleb Carr

#New York #Charity #Killers

I think charity begins with your family and you take it from there.
-- Caprice Bourret

#Thinking #Charity #Our Family

I am in a charity out there to stop violence against women.
-- Caprice Bourret

#Charity #Violence #Violence Against Women

The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.
-- Catherine Hall

#Cheerful #Charity #Lord

No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.
-- Catherine McAuley

#Charity #Instruction #Careful

Our charity is to be cordial...something that renews, invigorates and warms. Such should be the effect of our love for each other.
-- Catherine McAuley

#Charity #Our Love #Should

A community in which this universal charity reigns, is capable of surmounting all difficulties.
-- Catherine McAuley

#Community #Charity #Reign

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
-- Charles Lamb

#Character #Charity #Action

Shut not thy purse-strings always against painted distress.
-- Charles Lamb

#Charity #Purses #Philanthropy

Don't be afraid of outgiving God. It is impossible to do that.
-- Charles R. Swindoll

#Charity #Impossible

Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.
-- Chinua Achebe

#Charity #Philanthropy #Opium

It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
-- Christian Nestell Bovee

#Giving #Needs #Charity

On why he has donated $600 million to selected charities. I simply decided I had enough money.
-- Chuck Feeney

#Money #Charity #Had Enough

Physical deformity, calls forth our charity. But the infinite misfortune of moral deformity calls forth nothing but hatred and vengeance.
-- Clarence Darrow

#Hatred #Charity #Moral

What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable and just way of divesting themselves of their overabundance.
-- Clarence Jordan

#Wise #Needs #Charity

What the poor need is not charity, but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers.
-- Clarence Jordan

#Needs #Charity #Coworker

The first rule of Evernight is that any vampire who seeks sanctuary must be given a place." -Charity
-- Claudia Gray

#Vampire #Charity #Sanctuary

The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.
-- Claudio Hummes

#Charity #Form #Solidarity

Charity is a cold grey loveless thing. If a rich man wants to help the poor, he should pay his taxes gladly, not dole out money at a whim.
-- Clement Attlee

#Men #Charity #Want

When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.
-- Confucius

#People #Together #Charity

A disciple having asked for a definition of charity, the Master said LOVE ONE ANOTHER.
-- Confucius

#Kindness #Charity #Definitions

It's in vogue to have a cause and give money in charity. But to actually speak up and say something like, I'm pissed about this" - that doesn't seem to be very popular unless you're writing a blog or tweeting.
-- Conor Oberst

#Writing #Giving #Charity

There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.
-- Conrad Hilton

#Law #Suffering #Charity

Instead of exhorting you to augment your charity, I will rather utter an exhortation, or at least a supplication, that you may not abuse your charity by misapplying it.
-- Cotton Mather

#Abuse #Charity #May

Everyone wants charities to spend as little as possible on overhead. That's backwards. Overhead is what drives growth. If charities can't grow, they can't solve problems. So overhead is a good thing. And I'm overhead.
-- Dan Pallotta

#Fundraising #Growth #Charity

In the meantime, we see there are charities that spend much of their scarce resources that should be going directly to the children to overcome this gulf that separates them from both the donors and the needy.
-- Dana Rohrabacher

#Children #Overcoming #Charity

Clearly, children's charities struggle to find private sources of money to sustain their benevolent programs.
-- Dana Rohrabacher

#Children #Struggle #Charity

Why was it that the instant you sent someone a check, no matter how worthy the organization, the first thing they did was ask you for more? Irritating, and a waste of the money she had just sent them.
-- Dana Stabenow

#Organization #Charity #Matter

I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.
-- David Nail

#Foundation #Passionate #Charity

Be a life long or short, its completeness depends on what it was lived for
-- David Starr Jordan

#Long #Charity #Long Life

The Celebrity Charity Industrial Complex Makes a Mockery of Compassion
-- Dean Cavanagh

#Compassion #Charity #Mockery

If someone does not have a specific charity they would like to donate to, that's OK. An undesignated donation would be split up evenly amongst all the charities supported by the Annapolis Area Complex.
-- Derren Brown

#Doe #Would Be #Charity

All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity.
-- Desire-Joseph Mercier

#Doe #Charity #Action

Have faith, hope, and charity, that's the way to live successfully.
-- Don Cornell

#Inspirational #Charity #Have Faith

Charity is only as warm as those who administer it.
-- Dorothy Day

#Charity

[R]eal charity doesn't mean giving away someone else's money.
-- Doug Bandow

#Mean #Giving #Charity

Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.
-- Edmund Spenser

#Charity #Ends

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.
-- Eduardo Galeano

#Believe #People #Charity

Unlike solidarity, which is horizontal and takes place between equals, charity is top-down, humiliating those who receive it and never challenging the implicit power relations.
-- Eduardo Galeano

#Challenges #Charity #Relation

I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.
-- Eduardo Galeano

#Believe #Charity #Solidarity

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.
-- Eduardo Saverin

#Tools #Purpose #Charity

Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
-- Edward Abbey

#Charity #Spontaneous #Affront

Like threads of silver seen through crystal beads Let love through good deeds show.
-- Edwin Arnold

#Charity #Deeds #Crystals

I am a full-time Research Fellow at the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, a small 501(c)(3) public charity supported primarily by individual donations.
-- Eliezer Yudkowsky

#Machines #Research #Charity

I think often times when people choose to be part of a charity; it's usually because something is very personal.
-- Elizabeth Berkley

#Thinking #People #Charity

All philanthropy is only a savoury fumigation burning at the mouth of a sewer.
-- Ellen Key

#Burning #Charity #Mouths

Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Thinking #Knowing #Charity

Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Charity

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
-- Emanuel Swedenborg

#Desire #Charity #Recompense

Sometimes a man imagines that he will lose himself if he gives himself, and keep himself if he hides himself. But the contrary takes place with terrible exactitude.
-- Ernest Hello

#Men #Giving #Charity

Funding for faith-based charities should] be judged based on performance and results - not religion. Now, if our sin is that our religion can produce the results, then we plead guilty.
-- Eugene Rivers

#Scary #Charity #Sin

Charity should always be a constant.
-- Eva LaRue

#Charity #Should #Constant

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.
-- Evita Peron

#Charity #Levels #Rich

All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
-- Ferguson Jenkins

#Eight #Support #Charity