Charity Quotes - Page 38

• We aren't upset when Paramount makes a $200 million movie that flops, but if a charity experiments with a $5 million fundraising event that fails, we call in the attorneys. So charities are petrified of trying bold new revenue-generating endeavors and can't develop the powerful learning curves the for-profit sector can.

  Dan Pallotta

  Powerful, Curves, Fundraising

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• I love Twitter. Twitter for me is twofold. I can use it to get out important information about charity stuff and where Im going to be, and I can get feedback from the audience which I love.

  Greg Grunberg

  Important, Information, Stuff

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

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• I don't think we should judge celebrities for doing charity work. Period. Whatever their reasons for doing it, they are shedding light on issues that would otherwise go unnoticed.

  Liya Kebede

  Thinking, Light, Issues

  "More Than a Pretty Face: Liya Kebede". Interview with Julia Savacool, www.marieclaire.com. May 14, 2007.

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• If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings.

  George Eliot

  Religious, Heaven, Feelings

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.395, ShandonPress

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• It is with charity as with money--the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Giving, Needs

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• We may cover a multitude of sins with the white robe of charity.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  White, May, Sin

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• What higher praise can we bestow on any one than to say of him that he harbors another's prejudices with a hospitality so cordial as to give him, for the time, the sympathy next best to, if indeed it be not edification in, charity itself. For what disturbs more and distracts mankind than the uncivil manners that cleave man from man?

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Men, Giving, Prejudice

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1872). “Concord Days”, p.31

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• You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Genius, Wells

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.192, Penguin

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• The man who cannot live with charity, sharing other men's pain, is punished by feeling his own with intolerable anguish.

  Cesare Pavese

  Pain, Men, Feelings

  Cesare Pavese, Alma Elizabeth Murch (1961). “This Business of Living”, p.261, Transaction Publishers

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• Charity is a flower not naturally of earthly growth, and it needs manuring with a promise of profit.

  Ouida

  Flower, Promise, Growth

  Ouida (2016). “Wisdom, Wit and Pathos of Ouida”, p.6, Ouida

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• If there be a pleasure on earth which angels cannot enjoy, and which they might almost envy man the possession of, it is the power of relieving distress--if there be a pain which devils might pity man for enduring, it is the death-bed reflection that we have possessed the power of doing good, but that we have abused and perverted it to purposes of ill.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pain, Angel, Reflection

  Charles Caleb COLTON (1849). “L.P.”, p.205

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• You cannot separate charity and religion.

  Charles Caleb Colton

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• O, if the deeds of human creatures could be traced to their source, how beautiful would even death appear; for how much charity, mercy, and purified affection would be seen to have their growth in dusty graves!

  Charles Dickens

  Beautiful, Death, Growth

  Charles Dickens (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Charles Dickens (Illustrated)”, p.2302, Delphi Classics

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• When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes.

  Charles Dickens

  Death, Tears, And Love

  Charles Dickens (1858). “The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces”, p.138

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• Charity must become a fundamental state of mind and heart that guides us in all we do.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Heart, Mind, Fundamentals

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• Charity in various guises is an intruder the poor see often; but courtesy and delicacy are visitants with which they are seldom honored.

  Ouida

  Delicacy, Courtesy, Poor

  Ouida (1890*). “Moths. The marquis's tactics. Meleagris Gallopavo. Guilderoy”

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• Charity is not one of the virtues practiced on the stock market. The heart of a bank is but one of many viscera.

  Honore de Balzac

  Heart, Virtue

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• Our energies are often stimulated by the necessity of supporting a being weaker than ourselves.

  Honore de Balzac

  Energy

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• A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton

  Heart, Mind, Want

  Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1856). “Wise-saws: Or, Sam Slick in Search of a Wife”, p.142

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• Large charity doth never soil, but only whitens soft white hands.

  James Russell Lowell

  Hands, White, Soil

  James Russell Lowell (1873). “The Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell”, p.17

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• The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have been flown for religious ideals.

  William James

  Religious, Wings, Bravery

  William James (2015). “The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature”, p.93, Xist Publishing

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• Be not frightened at the hard words "imposition," "imposture;" give and ask no questions. Cast thy bread upon the waters. Some have, unawares, entertained angels.

  Charles Lamb

  Angel, Giving, Water

  Charles Lamb (1855). “Works, with a Sketch of His Life and Final Memorials”, p.138

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• Active beneficence is a virtue of easier practice than forbearance after having conferred, or than thankfulness after having received a benefit. I know not, indeed, whether it be a greater and more difficult exercise of magnanimity, for the one party to act as if he had forgotten, or for the other as if he constantly remembered the obligation.

  George Canning

  Party, Exercise, Practice

  George Canning (1842). “Select Speeches of the Right Honourable George Canning: With a Preliminary Biographical Sketch, and an Appendix, of Extracts from His Writings and Speeches”, p.533

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• Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

  Victor Hugo

  Possession, Wells, Cheerfulness

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• As the Christian's sorrows multiply, his patience grows, until, with sweet, unruffled quiet, he can confront the ills of life, and, though inwardly wincing, can calmly pursue his way to the restful grave, while his old, harsh voice is softly cadenced into sweetest melody, like the faint notes of an angel's whispered song. As patience deepens, charity and sympathy increase.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Christian, Sweet, Song

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