Charity Quotes

"No one has ever become poor by giving."

Anne Frank

"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."

Mother Teresa

"When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."

Maya Angelou

"Sometimes your light shines so bright that it blinds people from seeing who you really are."

Shannon L. Alder

"Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you."

Shannon L. Alder

"Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead."

Mother Teresa

"Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves."

Horace Mann

"Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others."

Booker T. Washington

"Mannequin parts disassembled and discombobulated coming together for a good cause—to sell some clothes. That’s what charity is all about."

Jarod Kintz

"If I waste all my charity, all I’ll wind up with in the end is the wind. Still, I think I want to be the Dandelion of Love."

Jarod Kintz

"After soul searching, I found myself. Then I found myself giving of myself to a charity that finds missing children. It's great to be found."

Jarod Kintz

"The wealthier I get, the more money I will have to not have, because my goal in getting is giving, and nothing is better than charity."

Jarod Kintz

"If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent."

Warren Buffett

"The wise do not buy into other people’s perceptions of who they are and what they are capable of. Instead, they bypass a person’s public persona and see who they are in their highest expression. When you see actions taken with integrity, instead of words only, you will then know a soul’s worth."

Shannon L. Alder

"If I found 20 dollars on the ground, I’d be willing to bet I’d find someone in desperate need of money that I could give it to. And I’d bet 20 dollars, so even after finding and giving away 20 dollars, I’d have made 20 dollars."

Jarod Kintz

"I rather spend every Sunday of my life hanging off a cliff to rescue someone than spend one more time sitting in a pew next to hypocrites that talk about what they will do to better themselves and the world when they get around to it."

Shannon L. Alder

"Thus, when we plead for the gift of charity, we aren't asking for lovely feelings toward someone who bugs us or someone who has injured or wounded us. We are actually pleading for our very natures to be changed, for our character and disposition to become more and more like the Savior's, so that we literally feel as He would feel and thus do what He would do."

Sheri Dew

"If I were hairy, would you vacuum my chest before we made love? I’d probably have enough chip crumbs in it to feed the homeless, because I’m a charitable kind of guy."

Jarod Kintz

"Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul, like you."

Shannon L. Alder

"If I die with a zillion dollars and you die with zero, our net worth is worthless. All that matters is the love we level across our lives."

Jarod Kintz

"There are only two ways to live your life. One as if all that matters is to have someone love and accept you. The other is as though loving and accepting another person is all that matters. Often, when you choose the second you get the first."

Shannon L. Alder

"In a world plagued with commonplace tragedies, only one thing exists that truly has the power to save lives, and that is love."

Richelle E. Goodrich

"Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it."

Wendell Berry

"He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitable, henceforth one must be just. Given justice, indeed, horrid misery would disappear, and no such thing as charity would be needed."

Émile Zola, Paris

"Therein lies the new hope—Justice, after eighteen hundred years of impotent Charity. Ah! in a thousand years from now, when Catholicism will be naught but a very ancient superstition of the past, how amazed men will be to think that their ancestors were able to endure that religion of torture and nihility!"

Émile Zola, Paris

"It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost."

Murray N. Rothbard

"Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power."

Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

"Who really owns the Earth?Corporations? Governments?Charity Organizations?Or...Should it be the people?You decide!"

Anthony T. Hincks

"Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience."

Nicolás Gómez Dávila

"Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet."

Bertrand Russell

"What a rich wisdom it would be, and how much more bountiful a harvest, to gain pleasure not from achieving personal perfection but from understanding the inevitability of imperfection and pardoning those who also fall short of it."

Barbara Kingsolver, Small Wonder

"True confidence is not about what you take from someone to restore yourself, but what you give back to your critics because they need it more than you do."

Shannon L. Alder

"There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful."

Dorothy Day

"Don’t we get it? To put our arm around someone who is gay, someone who has an addiction, somebody who lives a different lifestyle, someone who is not what we think they should be… doing that has nothing to do with enabling them or accepting what they do as okay by us. It has nothing to do with encouraging them in their practice of what you or I might feel or believe is wrong vs right.It has everything to do with being a good human being. A good person. A good friend."

Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing

"I think it doesn’t matter if you or I or anybody else thinks homosexuality is a sin. It doesn’t matter if you or I think anything is a sin. It doesn’t matter if homosexuality is a sin or not. In fact, it doesn’t matter if anything anybody else does is a sin or not.Because sin is a very personal thing! It always has been and it always will be!And it has nothing to do with love."

Dan Pearce, Single Dad Laughing

"We can show love, respect for others, and honesty in whatever we do to help humanity."

Auliq-Ice

"...a being, with a capacity of reasoning, would not have failed to discover, as his faculties unfolded, that true happiness arose from the friendship and intimacy which can only be enjoyed by equals; and that charity is not a condescending distribution of alms, but an intercourse of good offices and mutual benefits, founded on respect for justice and humanity."

Mary Wollstonecraft, Works of Mary Wollstonecraft

"Charity (Daan) means to make another living being happy, whether it is a human being or some animals, giving happiness to them, that is what is called Charity. When you give happiness to everyone, happiness will indeed come to you in its ‘reaction’. If you give happiness then you immediately receive happiness just sitting at home."

Dada Bhagwan

"We must always remember that it is the things of the spirit that in the end prevail. That caring counts. That where there is no vision, people perish. That hope and faith count, and that without charity there can be nothing good. That by daring to live dangerously, we are learning to live generously. And that by believing in the inherent goodness of man, we may ... 'stride forward into the unknown with growing confidence."

John Gilbert Winant

"She didn't open the envelope until she'd gotten to the bus station and needed to pay for her ticket. He hadn't given her the thousand dollars she'd asked for-he'd given her ten thousand."

Ann Brashares, Sisterhood Everlasting

"Just please understand that everyone is going through a rough time as well. Even if they are hiding behind money or a simple smile. We are all continuously stumbling as we go about our lives. If we had perfect lives we'd all be perfect people. Only thing we can learn to do is endure or we will not be happy and happiness is the closest thing to perfect."

Hyrum Yeakley

"During these hard times in the world we should always remember to keep our families and friends close."

Hyrum Yeakley

"After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness.Third should come understanding.Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding.."

Hyrum Yeakley

"Once you start questioning your beliefs, that's when it's all over. It is truly doubt that kills our conviction."

Hyrum Yeakley

"After you hear and listen. First must come desire. Second must come willingness.Third should come understanding.Fourth should come progression and with progression will come more understanding."

Hyrum Yeakley

"Hard times' is a phrase the English love to use, when speaking of Africa. And it is easy to forget that Africa's 'hard times' were made harder by them."

Alice Walker, The Color Purple

"Helping People is Fun. Getting to a Position to help is Not."

Vineet Raj Kapoor

"So, ministers say that they teach charity. This is natural. They live on alms. All beggars teach that others should give."

Robert G. Ingersoll

"If religion has nothing to do with poverty and misery then why the Muslims are the largest charity takers of the world"

M.F. Moonzajer

"Sacrifice of the self is sheer stupidity if sacrifice is not for the self."

Amit Kalantri

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