Charitable Quotes

• Charity is commendable; everyone should be charitable. But justice aims to create a social order in which, if individuals choose not to be charitable, people still don't go hungry, unschooled or sick without care. Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance.

  Bill Moyers

  Commitment, Order, Sick

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• Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

  Thomas Fuller

  Kindness, Home, Fundraising

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Encouragement, Freedom, Business

  "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

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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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• Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.

  Billy Joel

  Giving, Musician, Causes

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• Great ideas are not charitable.

  Henry de Montherlant

  Ideas, Great Idea

  Henry de Montherlant (1951). “The Master of Santiago: And Four Other Plays”, New York : A. A. Knopf

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• In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.

  Clay Aiken

  Children, Acceptance, People

  Clay Aiken (2004). “Learning to Sing”, p.240, Harper Collins

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• Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.

  Asa Gray

  Winning, Wish, May

  Asa Gray (1880). “Natural science and religion, 2 lectures”

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• There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.

  Mitchell Baker

  Grateful, Differences, People

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• Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.

  David Rockefeller

  Giving, Philanthropic, Corporate

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

  Joseph Addison

  Life, Men, Literature

  "Complete Works of Joseph Addison " (Illustrated),

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• Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Peace, Money

  Mother Teresa (2001). “Mother Teresa: Essential Writings”

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• The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

  Henry Ford

  Life, Money, Inspiration

  Henry Ford (2015). “My Life and Work: Top Biography”, p.130, 谷月社

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• How shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves?

  Thomas Browne

  Charity, Executioners, Charity Begins At Home

  Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.126

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• No one has ever become poor from giving.

  Maya Angelou

  Christmas, Giving, Poor

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• Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.

  Isaac Barrow

  Design, May, Sin

  Isaac Barrow (1830). “The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.412

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• Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.

  Glenn Beck

  Giving, Needs, Care

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• What we employ in charitable uses during our lives is given away from ourselves; what we bequeath at our death is given from others only, as our nearest relations.

  Francis Atterbury

  Charity, Use, Life Is

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• The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Size, Social

  Reagan, Ronald (1982). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Ronald Reagan, 1981”, p.882, Best Books on

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• A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

  Ralph Nader

  Inspiration, Justice, Needs

  Anthony Quainton, Ralph Nader (2000). “Global Challenges in the 21st Century”

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• If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

  Bob Hope

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• It's more blessed to give than to receive - especially kittens.

  Bill Cosby

  Bible, Jesus, Blessed

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• Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Political, Causes, Charity

  Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

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• Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

  Muhammad Ali

  Basketball, Kindness, Fighting

  Twitter post from May 26, 2010

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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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