Charity Quote by Mary Wollstonecraft

“He had ceased to believe in the efficacy of alms; it was not sufficient that one should be charitable, henceforth one must be just.…

— Émile Zola

“O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship,…

— William Shakespeare

“It was at such moments that for an instant he ceased to be a reasoning machine and betrayed his human love for admiration and…

— Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"I believe that no characteristic is so distinctively human as the sense of indebtedness we feel, not necessarily for a favor received, but even…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“For loving-kindness to be real, for it to have moral value, he observed, it must be practiced with consideration "of the other's distress alone".”

— Sue Halpern

“All the happiness and virtue in this world come from selflessness and generosity, all the sorrow from egotism, selfishness, and greed.”

— Lama Surya Das

“It is undoubtedly the case that the practice of the virtues makes one happier. We’ve somewhat lost sight of that essential truth, now that…

— Alexander McCall Smith

“A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and misgivings in…

— Francois Maspero

“Generosity creates the higher life. There is no nobler virtue than the care one person shows to another.”

— Mensah Oteh

“His priorities for a rich and contented life were friendship, freedom, the pleasures of an examined life, and enough food and shelter to keep…

— Roger Housden

“A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness he possesses.”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Truth begets humility, which is the virtue of virtues, and charity gives it life and form.”

— Peter J. Arnoudt