Charitable Quotes

Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s)

— Tony Elumelu

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

— James Cook

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it…

— Paul Samuelson

The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms…

— Mark Twain

Though the world may often appear to be more charitable than the church, it is crucial to remember that, for the church,…

— Stanley Hauerwas

I am involved with so many charitable organizations. Lung Cancer because of my dad, Breast Cancer because as a woman and mother…

— Lois Robbins

As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same…

— Fred Rogers

Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is…

— Samuel Gridley Howe

Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is…

— Orson F. Whitney

I mean, I think it would humanize Hillary [Clinton] incredibly to detail how she was involved in the family charitable organization.

— Rush Limbaugh

The Bush administration, they had two blue ribbon commissions about infrastructure finance that recommended a lot more money, and additionally the gas…

— Ray LaHood

Many people are alienated by faceless bureaucracy and what they see as an erosion of participatory democracy. Consequently, there has been a…

— Frank Prochaska

I have formed the Mahendra Singh Dhoni Charitable Trust which organises cricket tournaments in Jharkhand to identify promising cricketers so that we…

— Mahendra Singh Dhoni

I have always seen the Clinton Foundation - yes, they do a lot of charitable good works. But by my lights, the…

— Jonah Goldberg

September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country…

— Lamar Alexander

An absolute monarch, who is rich without patrimony, may be charitable without merit; and Constantine too easily believed that he should purchase…

— Edward Gibbon

Whatever I've experienced in my life is a part of my story, and I'm proud of that. But it's someone who wakes…

— Drew Barrymore

I knew what the sanctified life was not. Not a life filled with more rituals, more scrupulously observed. Not more praying. Not…

— Vanessa L Ochs

I have always read all my reviews, the bad along with the good (although you remember the bad much more than the…

— Frank Spotnitz

If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious…

— Dalai Lama

We all want a simpler code, but tax reform is about much more. It is about ensuring that everyone pays their fair…

— Charles B. Rangel

There are very few moments in a man's existence when he experiences so much ludicrous distress, or meets with so little charitable…

— Charles Dickens

“Some might say that abundance is not what you hold in your hand, but what you have in your heart. And I…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

Our Government is investing in stronger communities by supporting the important work of charities by reducing their administrative burden, encouraging charitable giving…

— Kevin Sorenson

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.

— Myrtle Reed