Charity Quotes - Page 28

• Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

  Benjamin Franklin

  May, Hope And Faith, Built

  Benjamin Franklin, William Temple Franklin (1817). “The Works of Dr. Benjamin Franklin: [Correspondence”, p.40

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• I had come to realize the importance of the Nation, and of shared, communal, social responsibility, to be held as equally important as individual concerns. The elderly, the widowed, newly married couples, the poor, the unemployed, disbanded soldiers and children, who would be required to attend school, must be provided for from state funds. And all this support is not the nature of charity, but of a right.

  Thomas Paine

  Children, Couple, School

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• Charity you can give even when you haven't got.

  Bernard Malamud

  Giving, Havens

  Bernard Malamud (1967). “A Malamud Reader”, p.76, Macmillan

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• I'm very interested in charities. I help a lot of different charities.

  Gisele Bundchen

  Different, Helping

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• I want to be part of a different kind of celebrity, one that thinks not just about charity but policy.

  Wyclef Jean

  Thinking, Different, Want

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• Giving primacy to God means having the courage to say ‘no’ to evil, ‘no’ to violence, ‘no’ to oppression, to live a life in service of others and which fosters lawfulness and the common good. When a person discovers God, the true treasure, he abandons a selfish lifestyle and seeks to share with others the charity which comes from God. He who becomes a friend of God, loves his brothers and sisters, commits himself to safeguarding their life and their health, and also to respecting the environment and nature.

  Pope Francis

  Brother, Selfish, Mean

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• If younger people see older people who haven't planned ahead and have to rely on charity, the young will be more likely to provide for the future. Today when someone plans poorly, the only consequence people see is a demand for more government.

  Harry Browne

  Government, People, Demand

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• An environmentalist that eats meat is like a philanthropist that won't give money to charities.

  Howard Lyman

  Giving, Meat, Environmentalist

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• Charity work is very important to me and gives me an opportunity to give back to my community. I've always been a big supporter of many different charities, have donated millions of dollars to them, and it just feels great to do and be able to help others, especially children.

  Richard MacDonald

  Children, Helping Others, Opportunity

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• People love me or hate me and all I think about is the people that I know and suffer with different causes and carry on my charity work and that's what keeps me alive really.

  Heather Mills

  Hate, Thinking, People

  Interview with Andrew Castle, www.mirror.co.uk. April 11, 2008.

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• All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Business, Would Be, Wages

  Elbert Hubbard (1922). “Selected Writings of Elbert Hubbard ...”

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• My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'

  Patrick Schwarzenegger

  Grandmother, Saving, Said

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• Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.

  Janet Poppendieck

  Democracy, Erode, Vigorous

  Janet Poppendieck (1999). “Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement”, p.255, Penguin

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• Charity is one of those remarkable words that helps to identify the fault lines of a culture.

  Janet Poppendieck

  Culture, Lines, Faults

  Janet Poppendieck (1999). “Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement”, p.231, Penguin

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• Faith is knowing and thinking those truths: charity is willing and doing them.

  Emanuel Swedenborg

  Thinking, Knowing, Willing

  "On the Divine Love; On the Divine Wisdom: A Translation of Unpublished Manuscripts".

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• It is a real tragedy for a nation when three groups of it's people, namely politicians, religious leaders and charity workes, just pretend to be generous.

  Khem Veasna

  Religious, Real, People

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• Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities?

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Chinese, Literature

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2612, Delphi Classics

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• I still get invitations from all over Europe to speak at dinners, and it's an honour that promoters and charities can use me to create income.

  Frank Bruno

  Europe, Income, Use

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• In every human act of charity, something larger, greater, divine has come down to visit the act.

  Geoffrey Wood

  Divine, Humans, Greater

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• Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.

  Sholom Aleichem

  Giving, Jew

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• I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.

  Sam Simon

  Want, Lifetime

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• Any measure that establishes legal charity on a permanent basis and gives it an administrative form thereby creates an idle and lazy class, living at the expense of the industrial and working class.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Class, Giving, Lazy

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2006). “Memoir on Pauperism: Does Public Charity Produce an Idle And Dependent Class of Society?”, p.26, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity, self-sacrifice, honor, nobility of heart, you have an equal chance with everyone to be the most beloved and honored of all people.

  Archibald Rutledge

  Spiritual, Character, Heart

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• Character is the product of daily, hourly actions, and words, and thoughts; daily forgivenesses, unselfishness, kindnesses, sympathies, charities, sacrifices for the good of others, struggles against temptation, submissiveness under trial. Oh, it is these, like the blending colors in a picture, or the blending notes of music, which constitute the man.

  John Ross Macduff

  Kindness, Struggle, Character

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 46), 1895.

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• You can't run from feelings, Charity. You have to face them. Otherwise your future will look just like your past.

  Elizabeth Jane Howard

  Running, Past, Feelings

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