Charity Quotes · Page 44

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

— Ouida

It is not the magnitude of our actions, but the amount of love that is put into them that matters.

— Mother Teresa

Charity in the theater begins and ends with those who have a play opening within a week of one's own.

— Moss Hart

In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity and love.

— Greg Laurie

I like being able to donate my comedy to charity. I'm not a billionaire, and I can't write checks.

— Judy Gold

Personally, I've always been a philanthropist. I've always given away turkeys and did gift giveaways.

— JaVale McGee

The white savior supports brutal policies in the morning, founds charities in the afternoon, and receives awards in the evening.

— Teju Cole

I never intended on starting a charity; I never intended on cancer, health, and wellness becoming my life.

— Yael Cohen

For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature…

— Danny Elfman

“Charity does not mean doing good to him who does good to you, for this is to return good for good. Charity…

— Anonymous

Silence, as someone has said, is the mother of prayer and the nurse of holy thoughts. Silence cuts down on our sins,…

— Elisabeth Elliot

“Our possessions are not ours- God has given them to us to cultivate, that we may make them fruitful and profitable in…

— St. Francis de Sales

What do we call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, forgiveness? Different results of the master impulse, the necessity of securing one's self-approval.

— Mark Twain

We are obligated to be more scrupulous in fulfilling the commandment of charity than any other positive commandment because charity is the…

— Maimonides

I invest in black-led startups not because of a sense of charity. I make those investments because of the basic principle of…

— Troy Carter

There is small merit in mocking goodness, tweaking charity; it is much more comic to deprive people of their petty little existence…

— Jacques Rigaut

. . . . [P]ersons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles. No doubt your excessive affection for me makes…

— Vincent de Paul

Neutrality in things good or evil is both odious and prejudicial; but in matters of an indifferent nature is safe and commendable.…

— Joseph Hall

All ills spring from some vice, either in ourselves or others; and even many of our diseases proceed from the same origin.…

— David Hume

And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to…

— Thomas Hobbes

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

— Anonymous

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

— Pope Francis

It is true that there is a thing crudely called charity, which means charity to the deserving poor; but charity to the…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

Lent is a fitting time for self-denial; we would do well to ask ourselves what we can give up in order to…

— Pope Francis

Good is no good, but if it be spend, God giveth good for none other end.

— Edmund Spenser

I as little fear that God will damn a man that has charity, as I hope that the priests can save one…

— Alexander Pope

I want to live for something. I don't want to live to get charity food to give me enough strength to go…

— Betty Smith

I know a lot of people do charity work, but I always say find something that you are interested in to be…

— P. J. Tucker

“Charity is certainly greater than any rule. Moreover, all rules must lead to charity.”

— St. Vincent de Paul

All knowledge is sterile which does not lead to action and end in charity.

— Desire-Joseph Mercier

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

— Seneca the Younger

There is one way whereby we may secure our riches, and make sure friends to ourselves of them,--by laying them out in…

— John Tillotson

We live in an interdependent world. Every time you cut off somebody else's opportunities, you shrink your own horizons.

— William J. Clinton

Even as in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in hell there will be the most perfect hate.

— Thomas Aquinas

My little brother is autistic, so I would love to be involved in a charity for autism, but I haven't found the…

— Nikki Reed

Classic is our daring, classic our cowardice. Classic is our cruelty, classic our charity.

— Robert Ardrey

You find people ready enough to do the Samaritan, without the oil and twopence.

— Sydney Smith

I am willing to lend that hand, I will continue to stay involved with my charities as long as they need me.

— Laura San Giacomo

The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him

— Voltaire

What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy…

— Swami Vivekananda