Charity Quotes

It is like the seed put in the soil -- the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Orison Swett Marden

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Andre Gide

It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all.

Albert Camus

From the standpoint of the upper classes, the system had many merits. They felt that what was paid out of the poor rate was charity, and therefore a proof of their benevolence; at the same time, wages were kept at starvation level by a method which just prevented discontent from developing into revolution...It was plainly the certainty, derived from the old Poor Law, that actual death would be averted by the parish authorities, which induced the rural poor of England to endure their misery patiently...it taught them respect for their 'betters'.While leaving all the wealth that they produced, beyond the absolute minimum required for subsistence, in the hands of the landowners and farmers. It was at this period that landowners built the sham Gothic ruins called 'follies', where they indulged in romantic sensibility about the past while they filled the present with misery and degradation.

Bertrand Russell

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

Sir Winston Churchill

The real secret of happiness is not what you have or what you receive; it's what you share

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Philanthropist. A rich (and usually bald) old gentleman who has trained himself to grin while his conscience is picking his pocket.

Ambrose Bierce

Christianity is strange. It bids man recognise that he is vile, even abominable, and bids him desire to be like God. Without such a counterpoise, this dignity would make him horribly vain, or this humiliation would make him terribly abject.

Blaise Pascal

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

LaoTzu

The big print giveth, and the fine print taketh away.

Fulton John Sheen

It is not what we get. But who we become, what we contribute... that gives meaning to our lives.

Anthony Robbins

He that loveth, flieth, runneth, and rejoiceth. He is free, and cannot be held in. He giveth all for all, and hath all in all, because he resteth in one highest above all things, from whom all that is good flows and proceeds.

Thomas Kempis

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Are there not thousands in the world who love their fellows even to the death, who feel the giant agony of the world, and more, like slaves to poor humanity, labor for mortal good?

John Keats

I love my fellow creatures -- I do all the good I can -- yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

W. S. Gilbert

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.

Abraham Lincoln

Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

Elbert Hubbard

It is by teaching that we teach ourselves, by relating that we observe, by affirming that we examine, by showing that we look, by writing that we think, by pumping that we draw water into the well.

Henri Frederic Amiel

If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.

Marianne Williamson

Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.

Jacques BeNigne Bossuet