Generosity Quotes · Page 53

It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

— Dan Pallotta

Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose.

— Thomas Merton

We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

— John Stott

The spirit of Christmas is - and hopefully always will be - about goodwill and generosity to others and peace on earth.

— Nick Rahall

I organised a charity game in my hometown, and we collected three tonnes of food for the people of the town.

— Richarlison

Charity puts and end to poverty; righteous conduct to misery; discretion to ignorance; and scrutiny to fear.

— Chanakya

You know the way I play golf, it's a good I do these things for charities.

— Joe Mantegna

You can't take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

— Robert Kiyosaki

I am delighted to become a Patron of Deafinitely Youth Theatre, a fantastic charity that is so special to me, and supporting…

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in…

— John Quincy Adams

Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity…

— Nick Rahall

Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to…

— Aelred of Rievaulx

“If you mean the ease with which you drop coins when you're off a-cunting, you're right. You're a one-man charity ball for…

— Scott Lynch

However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more…

— Arjuna Ardagh

To have charitable support given by people voluntarily to support their fellow citizens, I think, is rather uplifting and shows what a…

— Jacob Rees-Mogg

You know, he [Alan Rickman] played these very reserved, sometimes-cold, sometimes-threatening characters on the screen, but the reality of the man was…

— Helen Mirren

“today, givers like Adam Rifkin are able to spark a more powerful form of reciprocity. Instead of trading value, Rifkin aims to…

— Adam M. Grant

Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education…

— James Madison

“In scattering the seed, scattering your 'charity,' your kind deeds, you are giving away, in one form or antoher, part of your…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“... don't invest your feelings in things. Don't invest them in people. Don't be good, considerate, honest, generous, and compassionate to others…

— Najwa Zebian

“Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle…

— Voltaire

I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement which tries to work out the most effective ways to improve the world. Effective…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

Our commitment to this founding principle is especially relevant today. Americans are united as rarely before in compassion and generosity for our…

— Edward Kennedy

Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost.

— Bob Keeshan

Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine.

— Seth Godin

“Charity must be accompanied by efforts at structural and systemic transformation.”

— Christopher D. Marshall

True charity ought to begin in marriage, for it is a relationship that must be rebuilt every day.

— James E. Faust

Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy.

— Bret Stephens

Charity only perpetuates poverty by taking the initiative away from the poor.

— Muhammad Yunus

You can see guys around the League doing things for different charities, different foundations.

— Johnny Gaudreau

“You have a duty to exploit your day and your time so you can live a prosperous life filled with activity and…

— Businessman Company

“Charity is detrimental unless it helps the recipient become independent of it.”

— David Thorne

“For others to be generous it requires that a person accept their generosity for the cycle to be completed.”

— Susan C. Young

Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.

— Herman Melville

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.

— Aaron Hill

There's nothing more rewarding than making a difference doing charity work or being able to be there for a friend.

— Michael Ealy

Since Love has made ruins of my heart The sun must come and illumine them. Such generosity has broken me with shame.

— Anonymous

He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the…

— Francis Quarles