Charity Quotes - Page 8

• Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts.

  Conrad Hilton

  Inspirational, Greatness, Men

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• Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Life, Fun

  The Lorax (1971)

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• Find a need and fill it.

  Ruth Stafford Peale

  Inspirational, Making A Difference, Needs

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• Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

  Saint Augustine

  Life, Christian, Law

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• I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity. Charity is so vertical. It goes from the top to the bottom. Solidarity is horizontal. It respects the other person. I have a lot to learn from other people.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Respect, Believe, People

  "Louder Than Bombs: Interviews from the Progressive Magazine" by David Barsamian, (p. 146), 2004.

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  We have the right as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money.

  Davy Crockett

  Money, Giving, Dollars

  "The Life of Colonel David Crockett". Book by Edward Sylvester Ellis, 1884.

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• In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Bridges, Giving, Solitude

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• My father used to say, 'You can spend a lot of time making money. The tough time comes when you have to give it away properly.' How to give something back, that's the tough part in life.

  Lee Iacocca

  Life, Money, Father

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• I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'

  Benjamin Franklin

  Karma, Philanthropy, Rich

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “Memoirs of the Life and Writings of Benjamin Franklin ...”, p.2

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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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• The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspiring, Leadership, Peace

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• I don't believe in charity. I believe in solidarity.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Respect, Believe, Solidarity

  "Louder Than Bombs: Interviews from the Progressive Magazine" by David Barsamian, (p. 146), 2004.

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• Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Grateful, Men

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.127, Penguin

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• Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

  Joel Osteen

  Art, School, Western Culture

  "Joel Osteen — Always Taking The High Road". Interview with Pat Gallagher, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 5, 2013.

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• Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses.

  William Shakespeare

  Blessing, Curse, Knows

  William Shakespeare (2013). “Histories of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.356, BookCaps Study Guides

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• Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Life, Appreciated, Philanthropy

  Henry David Thoreau (1882). “Walden”, p.121

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• No sound ought to be heard in the church but the healing voice of Christian charity.

  Edmund Burke

  Christian, Healing, Voice

  Edmund Burke (1792). “The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Collected in Three Volumes. Vol. I.[-III.].”, p.33

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• They take the paper and they read the headlines. So they've heard of unemployment and they've heard of bread-lines. And they philanthropically cure them all by getting up a costume charity ball.

  Ogden Nash

  Funny, Sarcasm, Unemployment

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• The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.

  Sargent Shriver

  Men, Justice, Genuine

  "The Kennedy Family and the Story of Mental Retardation" by Edward Shorter, (p. 66), 2000.

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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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• Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Home

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Charity never faileth.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Swami Vivekananda (1963). “Complete Works”

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• Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.

  Virginia Woolf

  Heart, Tolerance, Mind

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.501, Wordsworth Editions

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• Charity creates a multitude of sins.

  Oscar Wilde

  Sin, Multitudes

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Soul of Man under Socialism”, p.4, Oscar Wilde

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• The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

  Voltaire

  Inspirational, Men, Giving

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