Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
No one has ever become poor by giving.
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
Charity begins at home, but should not end there.
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.
To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
You cannot do a kindness too soon.
Follow AzQuotes on Facebook, Twitter and Google+. Every day we present the best quotes! Improve yourself, find your inspiration, share with friends
or simply: