Giving To Charity Quotes - Page 3

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

Winston Churchill

Inspiring, Military, Giving

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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

Washington Irving

Christmas, Thank You, Heart

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Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.

Henry David Thoreau

Good Life, Son, Fundraising

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If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.

Warren Buffett

Life, Thinking, Helping Others

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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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Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Life, Happiness, Depression

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It is only in the giving of ourselves to others that we truly live — only with the meeting of our minds — thine and mine — do we become conscious of the divine spark each of us shares — only in sharing in our daily contacts, one with another, in our mutual hopes and fears do we find real peace. The human contribution is the essential ingredient.

Ethel Percy Andrus

Relationship, Inspiring, Giving

"The Wisdom of Ethel Percy Andrus".

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Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

C. S. Lewis

Prayer, Helping Others, Giving

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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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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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The miracle is this - the more you give, the more you have.

Leonard Nimoy

Giving, Miracle, Charity

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Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed

Mahatma Gandhi

Generosity, Charity, Given

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Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.

Andrew Carnegie

Inspiration, People, Giving

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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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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Desire, Charity, Philanthropy Giving

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Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.

William James

Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

Walt Whitman

Inspiration, Giving, Charity

"Song of Myself " l. 994 (written 1855)

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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

Edith Wharton

Inspirational, Life, Birthday

"Vesalius in Zante (1564)" st. 12 (1902)

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The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

William James

Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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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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No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

Charles Dickens

Love, Inspirational, Family

"Our Mutual Friend". Book by harles Dickens, 1865.

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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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It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Robert Kennedy

Change, Hope, Courage

Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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Happiness is not so much in having as sharing. We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Norman MacEwen

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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I'm a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world.

Mother Teresa

Love, Marriage, God

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