Charitable Quotes - Page 2

• September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.

  Lamar Alexander

  Country, Powerful, September 11

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• Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.

  Thomas Browne

  Home, Men, Voice

  Sir Thomas Browne (1869). “Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend”, p.86

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• To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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• For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

  Francis Bacon

  Memories, Men, Names

  1626 From his will.

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• Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth.

  Mark Twain

  Adventure, Views, Earth

  Mark Twain (2008). “The Innocents Abroad”, p.650, Velvet Element Books

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• Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.

  Thomas Browne

  Inspirational, Helping Others, Charity

  "Christian Morals".

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• Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

  Mark Twain

  Inspirational, Life, Travel

  Mark Twain, Caroline Thomas Harnsberger (2009). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.479, Courier Corporation

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• Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.

  Paul Samuelson

  Europe, United States, Doe

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• No one has ever become poor by giving.

  Anne Frank

  Inspirational, Morning, Kindness

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• Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Indulge In, Charity, Thyself

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• Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

  Myrtle Reed

  Memorable, Thinking, Clothes

  Myrtle Reed (1916). “Old Rose and Silver”, p.69, Library of Alexandria

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• Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Inspirational, Heaven, Charity

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• The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

  Robert Breault

  Inspiration, Volunteer, Community

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• I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters

  Art Linkletter

  Thinking, Matter, Today

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• I deem it the duty of every man to devote a certain portion of his income for charitable purposes; and that it is his further duty to see it so applied and to do the most good for which it is capable.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Men, Income, Purpose

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.91, Modern Library

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• I'm forming a charitable institution for education.

  Amar Bose

  Institutions

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• Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

  Maxim Gorky

  Kindness, Love You, Done

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• …Spread your love everywhere you go.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Motivational

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  But I am sure that I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round...as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time; the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely.

  Charles Dickens

  Christmas, Forgiveness, Heart

  Charles Dickens (1983). “A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas”, p.281, Library of Alexandria

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• As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same than we are different. That may be the most essential message of all, as we help our children grow toward being caring, compassionate, and charitable adults.

  Fred Rogers

  Children, Caring, Unique

  Fred Rogers (2003). “The World According to Mister Rogers: Important Things to Remember”, p.162, Hachette UK

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• Take charity work for example; the motivation of my various charitable activities is neither for fame nor profits. It is my sincere wish that, through my efforts, more people can realize how important it is to protect our planet and to start to act for a change.

  Li Bingbing

  Motivation, People, Effort

  "Interview with Li Bingbing on Elephants and Ivory Poaching". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I still don't understand why you don't mention the family charitable foundation, the Clinton Global Initiative. The Clinton Global Initiative is actually like a Morning Call for women all over the world. When the Clinton Global Initiative comes, that's a signal to women all over the world to come to New York.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Morning, New York, Foundation

  "Clinton’s Performance Was Great, But I’ll Tell You the Real Story of Bill and Hillary". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. July 27, 2016.

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• I am neither Christian enough nor charitable enough to like anybody just because he is alive and breathing. I want people to interest or amuse me. I want them fascinating and witty or so dul as to be different. I want them either intellectually stimulating or wonderfully corny; perfectly charming or hundred percent stinker. I like my chosen companions to be distinguishable from the undulating masses and I don't care how.

  Betty MacDonald

  Christian, Witty, Breathing

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• An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Atheist, Men

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2383, Manonmani Publishers

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• I think a fairly common behavior among fiction writers is that they want to help. They're generally charitable people. They're interested in the world. They're curious, they're empathetic. They understand suffering. They don't turn away from that. But what they do is essentially useless. Except for the sake of the thing itself.

  Joshua Ferris

  Thinking, People, Suffering

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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