Charitable Quote by Asa Gray

Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth…

— Henry Fielding

Most people who have been done a favor consider it an opportunity to show their incorruptibility rather than their gratitude. This is not only…

— Arthur Schnitzler

Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.

— Lord Chesterfield

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

— Pierre Corneille

I'm kind of an accidental instrument, really, through which I hope that the judgment and the will of this nation can be expressed.

— Eugene McCarthy

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

— Pope Francis

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.

— Thomas Browne

“Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is overrated; and it is our selfishness which overrates it.”

— Henry David Thoreau

What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

— Ayn Rand

I suppose I arrived at my charitable commitment largely through guilt. I recognized early on that my good fortune was not due to superior…

— George Kaiser

When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

— Hamza Yusuf