Charity Quotes - Page 40

• These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.

  Pope Francis

  Love, Self, Two

  "Is Pope Francis An Atheist and Ten Other Things I Learned From Him" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2015.

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• Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Want, Share

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• There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.

  Walter E. Williams

  Motivation, Men, People

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• What are you doing for others?

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Kings, Helping Others, Volunteer

  Jim Haskins, James Haskins, Martin Luther King (Jr.) (1992). “I have a dream: the life and words of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Millbrook Pr

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• It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Feelings, Misery, Selflessness

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Weather, Wish

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.89, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Selflessness, Philanthropy, Disinterest

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.90, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Principles, Firsts, Selflessness

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Adventure, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.248, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Church, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Humility, Common

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• You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heaven, Earth, Want

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• Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Firsts, Selflessness, Philanthropy

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mediocrity, Selflessness, Philanthropy

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.

  Queen Victoria

  Character, Civilization, Dumb

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• ...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

  Leonard Cohen

  Nurse, Wonder, Young

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.196, Vintage

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• Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

  Francis of Assisi

  Humility, Men, Giving

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• Education cannot be a matter of charity, Education has to be a matter of Right.

  Arvind Kejriwal

  Matter

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• Real charity is giving from the heart without taking credit.

  Michael Jackson

  Real, Heart, Giving

  "The Michael Jackson Tapes: A Tragic Icon Reveals His Soul in Intimate". Book by Shmuley Boteach, 2009.

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• Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.

  Ivy Compton-Burnett

  Real, Lying, Giving

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• How marvellous it would be if, at the end of the day, each of us could say: today I have performed an act of charity towards others!

  Pope Francis

  The End Of The Day, Would Be, Today

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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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• I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth’s appearing.

  Mary Baker Eddy

  Letting Go, Prayer, Humility

  Mary Baker Eddy (1957). “The Christian Science Journal”

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• Fair Trade is all about improving lives, but we don't do that through charity - there is no hand out in the Fair Trade movement. People are solving their own problems through Fair Trade.

  Paul Rice

  Hands, People, Movement

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• What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and charity; it means a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Appreciation, Heart, Mean

  "Sketches and Travels in London: To which are Added Novels by Eminent Hands, and Character Sketches".

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