Charity Quotes - Page 23

• In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money.

  Mark Twain

  Support, Age, Three

  Mark Twain (1903). “The $30,000 Bequest and Other Stories”, p.227, Library of Alexandria

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• And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

  Simon Raven

  Trust, Patience, Skills

  Simon Raven (1962). “The Decline of the Gentleman”

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• I am indebted to the British welfare state; the very one that Mr Cameron would like to replace with charity handouts. When my life hit rock bottom, that safety net, threadbare though it had become under John Major's Government, was there to break the fall. I cannot help feeling, therefore, that it would have been contemptible to scarper for the West Indies at the first sniff of a seven-figure royalty cheque. This, if you like, is my notion of patriotism.

  J. K. Rowling

  Fall, West Indies, Rocks

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• Charity work shouldn't be bragged about. It's just something you're supposed to do...I do it because I feel like that's what God wanted me to do. It's as simple as that.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Motivation, Simple, Fighter

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• There is a class of persons to whom by all spiritual affinity i am bought and sold; for them i will go to prison, if need be; but your miscellaneous popular charities; the education at college of fools; the building of meeting-houses to the vain end to which many now stand; alms to sots; and the thousandfold Relief Societies; - though i confess with shame i sometimes succumb and give the dollar, it is a wicked dollar which by and by i shall have the manhood to withhold.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Spiritual, College, Class

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.12, Penguin

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• Now the Apostle, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, says, "Knowledge inflates: but love edifies." The only correct inerpretation of this saying is that knowledge is valuable when charity informs it. Without charity, knowledge inflates; that is, it exalts man to an arrogance which is nothing but a kind of windy emptiness.

  Saint Augustine

  Inspiration, Men, Arrogance

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• He was my ultimate present my own personal miracle and I'd blown it. I'd given him away. It was like winning backstage passes to meet the rock star of your dreams and donating the tickets to charity. It sucked. Big time.

  Colleen Houck

  Dream, Stars, Winning

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• These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self.

  Pope Francis

  Love, Self, Two

  "Is Pope Francis An Atheist and Ten Other Things I Learned From Him" by James Altucher, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 23, 2015.

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• Charity, patience and tenderness are very beautiful gifts. If you have them, you want to share them with others.

  Pope Francis

  Beautiful, Want, Share

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• There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.

  Walter E. Williams

  Motivation, Men, 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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• It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Feelings, Misery, Selflessness

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Weather, Wish

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.89, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Selflessness, Philanthropy, Disinterest

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.90, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Principles, Firsts, Selflessness

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume 1”, Lulu.com

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• We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type "man" also involves a new form of slavery.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  War, Adventure, Mean

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2015). “The Joyful Wisdom”, p.248, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Sacrifice, Church, Doe

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2012). “The Gay Science”, p.27, Courier Corporation

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• There is a stupid humility that is quite common and when a person is afflicted with it, he is once and for all disqualified for being a disciple of knowledge.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Stupid, Humility, Common

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• You want to be paid as well, you virtuous! You want reward for virtue, and heaven for earth, and eternity for your today?

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Heaven, Earth, Want

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• Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Firsts, Selflessness, Philanthropy

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Mediocrity, Selflessness, Philanthropy

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• No civilization is complete which does not include the dumb and defenseless of God's creatures within the sphere of charity and mercy.

  Queen Victoria

  Character, Civilization, Dumb

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• ...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

  Leonard Cohen

  Nurse, Wonder, Young

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.196, Vintage

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• Let us also love our neighbors as ourselves. Let us have charity and humility. Let us give alms because these cleanse our souls from the stains of sin. Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.

  Francis of Assisi

  Humility, Men, Giving

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• Education cannot be a matter of charity, Education has to be a matter of Right.

  Arvind Kejriwal

  Matter

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