Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sathya Baba

Spend money in charity; be generous and munificent but not extravagant.

Larry Thomas

I'm sitting here looking at a little gold key that the mayor of DeLand gave me in 2004. I enjoyed being there, and I thought the people were really nice, but it's a strange world when a charity stiffs you.

Arpad Busson

Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.

Bertrand Russell

In a just world, there would be no possibility of 'charity'.

Leila Janah

I think part of the problem with charity is that it tends to make us view people as helpless victims. I think in the future, we'll look back on charity in the same way that we look back on colonialism today: as a very paternalistic system that doesn't fully recognise the full spectrum of humanity.

Dan Carter

We have some overhead, but most of the money we collect goes to the charity.

Fulton J. Sheen

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

Henry David Thoreau

Objects of charity are not guests.

Henry David Thoreau

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.

Gisele Bundchen

I'm very interested in charities. I help a lot of different charities.

Hugh Blair

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.

Hosea Ballou

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

He wondered why the pelican was the symbol of charity, except it was that it wanted a good deal of charity to admire a pelican.

Go to friends for advice, woman for love, strangers for charity and relatives for nothing.

Francis Quarles

If thou neglectest thy love to thy neighbor, in vain thou professest thy love to God; for by thy love to God, the love to thy neighbor is begotten, and by the love to thy neighbor thy love to God is nourished.

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

Homer

It never was our guise to slight the poor, or aught humane despise.

Mark Twain

How often we recall, with regret, that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.

There is no good in most of their secret counsels except (in his) who enjoins charity or goodness or reconciliation between people; and whoever does this seeking Allah's pleasure, We will give him a mighty reward.

Humans should do charity and do service to others.

Our morgue at Big Charity is full and it is under water.

This is not about charity. This is not about corporate responsibility. This is a smart solution for businesses.

James Cook

Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.

That's one of the things that they teach in the Bible, we're supposed to go over there and give charity work, and that's one of things I really wanted to do.

Oscar Wilde

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

That's a reflection on the people involved. I don't know if anybody's guilty but, if you think that's what everybody does in the NFL, then you're ignorant, ... There's plenty of guys here doing charity work.

True patriotism is a charity so wide that it covers a nation.

Pope Francis

...because with us what is highest must be at the service of others.

Pope Francis

Charity that does not change the situation of the poor isn't enough.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving.

Lawrence G. Lovasik

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

Thomas a Kempis

He is truly great who hath a great charity.

Joseph Cook

We only begin to realize the value of our possessions when we commence to do good to others with them. No earthly investment pays so large an interest as charity.