Charity And Giving Quotes

• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Aesop (1963). “Aesop's fables”, Cliffs Notes

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• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

  Mother Teresa

  Helping Others, Charity, Giving Help

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Life, Leadership, Motivational Sports

  Calvin Coolidge (1920). “Law and Order”

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• It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

  Tom Brokaw

  Inspirational, Appreciation, Motivation

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

  Thomas Fuller

  Kindness, Home, Fundraising

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• The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Inspirational, Friendship, Success

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• There is no use whatsoever in trying to help people who do not help themselves.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Helping Others, Help And Support, People

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• True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  True Love, Love Is, Giving

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• Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Kindness, Sacrifice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

  Moliere

  Helping Others, Men, Doe

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• Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

  Khalil Gibran

  Work, Generosity, Giving

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

  Homer

  Inspirational, Teaching, Teens

  Homer (1983). “The Odyssey”, Outlet

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• Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  College, Helping Others, Greatness

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• With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

  Abraham Lincoln

  God, Business, Work

  Second Inaugural Address, 4 Mar. 1865

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• You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

  Samuel Johnson

  Giving, Charity, Pay

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.33

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• You cannot do a kindness too soon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Karma, Thankful, Appreciation

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• Christian life consists of faith and charity

  Martin Luther

  Christian, Charity, Christian Life

  Martin Luther (1904). “The Life of Luther Written by Himself”

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• One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

  George Eliot

  Money, Luxury, Giving

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2974, ShandonPress

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• You only need a heart full of grace

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Greatness, Helping Others

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.222, Beacon Press

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• It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

  Winston Churchill

  Inspiring, Military, Giving

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• The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others.

  Mitch Albom

  Generosity, Charity, Giving Help

  Mitch Albom (2007). “Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson”, p.43, Broadway Books

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• Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Heart, Helping Others, Greatness

  "The Drum Major Instinct". Sermon at Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, February 4, 1968.

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• Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Inspiring, Kindness, Inspiration

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.90

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  Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

  Edmund Burke

  Life, Courage, Time

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