Charitable Quotes - Page 9

• Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

  Richard Dawkins

  Religious, Taxes, Organisation

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• How about no income tax at all on people over 65? People would continue working, remain healthier, not be an economic and social drain on society. Then the elderly would also have more disposable income to help charitable activities.

  John Templeton

  Optimistic, Elderly, People

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• Successful charitable fund-raising has much in common with managing a business: It requires leadership, persistence, and creativity.

  David Rockefeller

  Success, Leadership, Creativity

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.396, Random House

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• My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Children, Charitable Work, Life Is

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• In the early 1970s, Milton Friedman argued that corporations should not be socially responsible because they had no mandate to be; they existed to make money, not to be charitable institutions. But in the economy of the 21st century, corporations cannot be socially responsible, if social responsibility is understood to mean sacrificing profits for the sake of some perceived social good. That's because competition has become so much more intense.

  Robert Reich

  Business, Mean, Responsibility

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• The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expenses of it. There should not be a district of one mile square, without a school in it, not founded by a charitable individual, but maintained at the public expense of the people themselves.

  John Adams

  Education, School, Squares

  John Adams (1971). “The Works [of] John Adams, Second President of the United States: Official letters, messages, and public papers. Correspondence”

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• It is not my experience that life’s difficulties make people more charitable.

  Cormac McCarthy

  People, Difficulty

  Cormac McCarthy (2012). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.235, Pan Macmillan

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• If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.

  Roger L'Estrange

  Christian, Ungrateful, Vices

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• Generosity is more charitable than wealth.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Generosity, Wealth

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• The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.

  John Ray

  Doors, Giving, Charity

  Henry George Bohn, John Ray (1855). “A Hand-book of Proverbs: Comprising Ray's Collection of English Proverbs, with His Additions from Foreign Languages. And a Complete Alphabetical Index”, p.4

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• Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.

  Samuel Beckett

  Charity, Gestures, Defence

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.24, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war.

  William Shakespeare

  Peace, War, Memorable

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.347

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• The heart of a girl is like a convent--the holier the cloister, the more charitable the door.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Girl, Heart, Doors

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• If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

  Dalai Lama

  Giving, Joy, Everyday

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• We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

  Dalai Lama

  Needs, Benefits, Our Actions

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• Every now and then I will play; I try to focus on charitable work. I might do it because it's an offer I can't refuse, so I rally and try to stay in shape and keep myself active.

  Andre Agassi

  Play, Charitable Work, Focus

  "Andre Agassi, 20 Years Later". Interview with Frank Sun, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 26, 2015.

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• I am involved with so many charitable organizations. Lung Cancer because of my dad, Breast Cancer because as a woman and mother of two daughters I have to be, Lupus for my sister, Crohn's disease for a dear friend, as well as Oceana and The Plastic Pollution Coalition because we have to be responsible to save the planet!

  Lois Robbins

  Daughter, Mother, Dad

  KDHamptons Interview, www.kdhamptons.com.

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• We cannot preserve philanthropic and charitable values if we detach them completely from our fundamental personal beliefs and convictions.

  Robert L. Payton

  Fundamentals, Belief, Philanthropy

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• My strengths make me contemptuous. My weaknesses make me charitable.

  Mason Cooley

  Strength, Weakness, Contemptuous

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• There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them.

  C. S. Lewis

  Should, Expenditures, Ought

  C.S. Lewis (1996). “Joyful Christian”, p.144, Simon and Schuster

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• There is always scope for football to be more charitable but a lot happens already. Personally I have always been passionate about charity.

  David Beckham

  Football, Passionate, Charity

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• I believe that we all need to do charitable work. It should be taken seriously in the area of education, as someone from the industry.

  Goldie

  Believe, Taken, Charitable Work

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• Is there no reconciliation of some ancient quarrel, no payment of some long outstanding debt, no courtesy or love or honor to be rendered to those to whom it has long been due; no charitable, humble, kind, useful deed, by which you can promote the glory of God, or good-will among men, or peace upon earth? If there be any such, I beseech you, in God's name, in Christ's name, go and do it.

  Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

  Humble, Men, Names

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 204), 1895.

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• A god of kindness would be charitable to all. Your god of wrath and punishment is but a monstrous phantasy.

  Emile Zola

  Kindness, Wrath, Punishment

  Emile Zola (2001). “Truth”

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• No new reader, however charitable, could open “Fifty Shades of Grey,” browse a few paragraphs, and reasonably conclude that the author was writing in her first language, or even her fourth.

  Anthony Lane

  Writing, Firsts, Fifty

  "No Pain, No Gain" by Anthony Lane, www.newyorker.com. February 23 & March 2, 2015.

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