Charity Quotes · Page 33

I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through…

— Johnny Cash

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

— George Sand

The habit of being uniformly considerate toward others will bring to you increased happiness.

— Grenville Kleiser

I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.

— Demi Lovato

If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.

— Confucius

I'm incredibly fortunate and it's important to me to make sure that I give back where I can.

— Andy Murray

To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity.

— Howard Lyman

Hooray for differences! Without them, there would be no harmony. In principles, great clarity. In practices, great charity.

— Chieko N. Okazaki

Whenever we find ourselves more inclined to persecute than to persuade, we may then be certain that our zeal has more of…

— Charles Caleb Colton

As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to…

— John Stuart Mill

Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice…

— Thomas Browne

To understand one another, and to grow in charity and truth, we need to pause, to accept and listen to one another.…

— Pope Francis

We should not feel pride in our charity, austerity, valour, scriptural knowledge, modestyandmorality for the world is full of the rarest gems.

— Chanakya

Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

We have tried you citizens; we are trying you now, and you have a couple of dollars for the sorrowing mothers, brothers…

— Rose Schneiderman

I have a responsibility to lots of people in my life. I have three children, I'm a wife, I have 60 staff…

— Mary Portas

The safest way for a state is to lay down the rule that religion is comprised solely in the exercise of charity…

— Baruch Spinoza

The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and…

— Saint Augustine

Creation comes before distribution - or there will be nothing to distribute. The need of the creator comes before the need of…

— Ayn Rand

Be deaf unto the suggestions of tale-bearers, calumniators, pick-thank or malevolent detractors, who, while quiet men sleep, sowing the tares of discord…

— Thomas Browne

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

— Wilford Woodruff

My kids aren't celebrities. They never made that bargain. We were offered a lot of money to sell pictures of our kids…

— Ben Affleck

Each religion has helped mankind. Paganism increased in man the light of beauty, the largeness and height of his life, his aim…

— Sri Aurobindo

I moved to Los Angeles, and 'The Office' became successful, and the charity/cocktail party circuit is really not my scene. But I…

— Brian Baumgartner

To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.

— William Shakespeare

The gifts of the Holy Spirit are testimony, faith, knowledge, wisdom, revelations, miracles, healing, and charity, to name but a few...

— D. Todd Christofferson

I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other…

— Lord Byron

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

— David Boreanaz

There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.

— Conrad Hilton

The river knows the way to the sea: Without a pilot it runs and falls, Blessing all lands with its charity.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We may not substitute charity for godliness; but there is room for the Divine love in the heart which has been touched…

— William Morley Punshon

Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.

— Aldous Huxley

I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

— Arabella Weir

I believe in goodness, mercy and charity. I believe in casting bread upon the waters.

— Leonard Nimoy

Canadians will usually give charity to those in need overseas but will ignore the people in their own backyards. It's infuriating.

— Mark Brand

Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all.

— Swami Vivekananda

It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never…

— D. Elton Trueblood

Charity is the only lubricant that keeps the axle of the world creaking.

— Austin O'Malley

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

— Emily Bronte

I've been donating all the money I earn from the TV shows to a charitable trust.

— Ali