Charity Quotes · Page 28

My father worked for a children's home called Dr. Barnardo's Homes. They're a charity.

— David Bowie

Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.

— Bernard of Clairvaux

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

— Bob Woodward

“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about…

— Shannon Alder

A group's leadership limit is reached when voluntarism ends and compulsion begins.

— Orrin Woodward

Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

The gift of giving and paying it forward has always been traits I consider to be invaluable.

— Jon Taffer

No vicarious charity can substitute for justice which is due as an obligation and is wrongfully denied.

— Pope Pius XI

I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions…

— Armando Iannucci

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of…

— Anzia Yezierska

I don't think I've got the expertise with which to nit-pick, and I freely admit that my motivation to support charities has…

— Arabella Weir

Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.

— Larry Elder

I would like to employ more people but I don't want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or…

— Russell Simmons

Some, like Ebenezer Scrooge in Dickens's A Christmas Carol, have a hard time loving anyone, even themselves, because of their selfishness. Love…

— James E. Faust

“Examine your heart often to see if it is such toward your neighbor as you would like his to be toward you…

— St. Francis de Sales

One of my dreams is to become sufficiently famous that I can play this charity match that happens every year or two…

— Demian Bichir

The proclamation of the Gospel is destined primarily to the poor, to those who often lack the essentials for a decent life.…

— Pope Francis

I think each village was meant to feel pity for its own sick and poor whom it can help and I doubt…

— Anonymous

People can change their own lives, provided they have the right kind of institutional support. They're not asking for charity, charity is…

— Muhammad Yunus

“One man thinks justice consists in paying debts, and has no measure in his abhorrence of another who is very remiss in…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Religion, or the duty we owe to our Creator, and manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction,…

— James Madison

In a word, literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the…

— Helen Keller

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which…

— Barack Obama

For Christians, the first priority may be theological self-understanding. For Jews it is, and after Auschwitz must be, simple safety for their…

— Emil Fackenheim

Character and personal force are the only investments worth anything

— Walt Whitman

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

— Wyclef Jean

Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.

— James Cook

I've been doing charity work since I'm 20 years old, and now I want to help kids.

— Brian Ortega

In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.

— Anne Baxter

I have a festival called Shaggy and Friends, which is a charity event to raise funds for a hospital.

— Shaggy

But there are many, and I'm a supporter of a great deal of charities.

— Bobby Sherman

The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

— Mahatma Gandhi

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

— Alphonsus Liguori

Not what we give, but what we share, for the gift without the giver is bare.

— James Russell Lowell

I have pursued my dream and I believe it is important to give back because I have been given the opportunity to…

— apl.de.ap

“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”

— Abraham Lincoln

I've auctioned off many scripts and will continue to do so for good causes.

— Claudia Christian

I don't work with anyone out of a sense of charity. I use people as long as they are useful to me.

— Ram Gopal Varma

Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed onto mankind.

— Conrad Hilton

In a story, the craftsmanship is fully exposed. A novel is like charity; it covers a multitude of faults.

— Thea Astley