Acquire Quote by Marvin J. Ashton

I have come to the conclusion that charity is only charity when you give goods, services or money without personal gain, benefit or recognition…

— Jim Pinto

True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense

— Emanuel Swedenborg

True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.

— Alphonsus Liguori

Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so…

— Confucius

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever be considered…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

To me, charity often is just about giving, because you’re supposed to, or because it’s what you’ve always done — or it’s about giving…

— Majora Carter

There is one kind of charity common enough among us... It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged, feeds the poor, and heals…

— Jamsetji Tata

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks…

— Swami Vivekananda

Strangely, charity sometimes gets dismissed, as if it is ineffective, inappropriate or even somehow demeaning to the recipient. 'This isn't charity,' some donors take…

— Ban Ki-moon

Charity is not an act but a way of life, a condition of the heart.

— Robert L. Millet

Charity is the pure love of Christ. Let's bring it down for us lay folk to understand. Selflessness, patience. . . . a great…

— Hyrum W. Smith