Charity Quotes

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Albert Camus

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Henry Van Dyke

Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there.

Phillips Brooks

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.

Mother Theresa

It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Theresa

Why is it no one ever sent me yet one perfect limousine, do you suppose? Ah no, it's always just my luck to get one perfect rose.

Dorothy Parker

What we are doing is satisfying the American public. That's our job. I always say we have to give most of the people what they want most of the time. That's what they expect from us.

William Paley

God ordains that beggars should beg for greatness, as for all else, when greatness shines out of them, and they don't know it.

Georges Bernanos

Fight vigorously against the wolves, but on behalf of the sheep, not against the sheep. And this you may do by inveighing against the laws and lawgivers, and yet at the same time observing these laws with the weak, lest they be offended, until they shall themselves recognize the tyranny, and understand their own liberty.

Martin Luther King Jr.

I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

Vash Young

A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature

George Orwell

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

Charles Dickens

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

Jack London

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.

Henry Home

Charity is the scope of all God's commands.

St. John Chrysosatom

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

May Sarton

Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character possesses this talent there is no moment more annihilating to ease than that in which a present is received and given.

Pamela Glenconner

Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.

Bertrand Russell

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Oscar Wilde

As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg.

Oscar Wilde