Charity Quotes · Page 52

Why should all virtue work in one and the same way? Why should all give dollars? It is very inconvenient to us…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There are two things you should know about the poor: they tend to smell, and they are ungrateful.”

— Dorothy Day

The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gifts...Thus a heavy…

— C. S. Lewis

The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.

— P. T. Barnum

[On dishonest business methods:] ... frequently the defender of the practice falls back on the Christian doctrine of charity, and points out…

— Ida Tarbell

True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.

— Hosea Ballou

I am a charity campaigner.

— Heather Mills

I've always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.

— Michael Bloomberg

Faith, hope and charity - faith, hope and charity - those are the tools God gave me. Ad I keep circling around…

— Glenn Beck

. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.

— Vincent de Paul

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

— Andrew Carnegie

“We hunger after the sweet nectar of happiness without understanding that it is harvested from the flowering field of good deeds.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

We will not have great questions decided by irrelevant agencies, Our husbands will not come to us, reeking with carnage, for caresses…

— Julia Ward Howe

Two great virtues . . . give a man power with the heavens - integrity and purity of character. Let a man…

— Wilford Woodruff

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

— Elbert Hubbard

There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking…

— Swami Vivekananda

I have a charity called the Chain Of Hope, where we target children from poor areas where heart surgery is not available,…

— Magdi Yacoub

Philanthropy, like charity, must begin at home.

— Charles Lamb

“Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something…

— Marcus Aurelius

all the vices are seasoned with pride just as the virtues are seasoned and enlivened by charity.

— St. Catherine of Siena

The measure of charity may be taken from the want of desires. As desires diminish in the soul, charity increases in it;…

— Saint Augustine

Everywhere you look, there is a charity or a project in school to get involved in. In eighth grade, there was this…

— Lindsey Shaw

... But as a Godless greed pursued its career from excess to excess, it provoked a sort of twin hostile brother, equally…

— Hilaire Belloc

Freedom, like charity, begins at home.

— Anne Roe

“The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves…

— Hal Herzog