Charity Quotes - Page 4

• It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Giving, Firsts, Difficult

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• A benefactor is a representative of God.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Inspiring, Benefactors, Representatives

  Benjamin Whichcote (1753). “Moral and religious aphorisms collected from the manuscript papers of the reverend and learned Doctor Whichcote; and published in 1703, by Dr. Jeffery. Now re-published, with very large additions, ... by Samuel Salter, ... To which are added, Eight letter”, p.90

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• You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Kindness

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.243, Diversion Books

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• Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Carpe Diem, Government, Ice

  1936 Renomination acceptance speech, Philadelphia, 27 Jun.

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• The best philanthropy is constantly in search of the finalities-a search for a cause, an attempt to cure evils at their source.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Evil, Causes, Philanthropy

  John D. Rockefeller (2003). “Random Reminiscences of Men and Events”, p.177, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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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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• Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

  Henry Ford

  Inspirational, Punishment, Poverty

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• Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

  Phillips Brooks

  Inspiring, Christian, Appreciation

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• The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Dream, Men, Fundraising

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.746, Library of America

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• 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.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Gratitude, Made, Chains

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• Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

  Joseph Joubert

  Indulge In, Charitable, Thyself

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• Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

  Joseph Addison

  Heart, Hands, Virtue

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele (1804). “The Guardian”, p.386

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• To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

  Bodhidharma

  Letting Go, Giving Up, Regret

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.49, Macmillan

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• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

  John Wesley

  Life, Motivational, Christmas

  'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

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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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• As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

  John Stuart Mill

  War, Matter, Concerned

  John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill (2015). “Essays on Sex Equality”, p.227, University of Chicago Press

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• Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

  Jacques-Benigne Bossuet

  Love, Heart, Soul

  "Quote Unquote : A Handbook of Quotations" by M. P. Singh, (p. 96), 2007.

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• Charity is in the heart of man, and righteousness in the path of men. Pity the man who has lost his path and does not follow it and who has lost his heart and does not know how to recover it. When people's dogs and chicks are lost they go out and look for them and yet the people who have lost their hearts do not go out and look for them. The principle of self-cultivation consists in nothing but trying to look for the lost heart.

  Mencius

  Dog, Inspiration, Heart

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• Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

  Hosea Ballou

  Divinity, Divine, Latter

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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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• To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

  Horace Mann

  Inspiring, Forgiveness, Compassion

  Horace Mann (1845). “Lectures on Education”, p.297

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  Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

  Margaret Mead

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

  Margaret Mead, Robert B. Textor (2005). “The World Ahead: An Anthropologist Anticipates the Future”, p.12, Berghahn Books

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• The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all others, charity.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Positive, Forgiveness, Respect

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• Nine requisites for contented living: Health enough to make work a pleasure. Wealth enough to support your needs. Strength to battle with difficulties and overcome them. Grace enough to confess your sins and forsake them. Patience enough to toil until some good is accomplished. Charity enough to see some good in your neighbor. Love enough to move you to be useful and helpful to others. Faith enough to make real the things of God. Hope enough to remove all anxious fears concerning the future.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Love, Life, Happiness

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