Top 100 Giving Charity Quotes
#1. To accept the dignity of another person is an axiom. It has nothing to do with subduing, supporting, or giving charity to other people.
Leo Tolstoy
#2. What men call love is a very small, restricted, feeble thing compared with this ineffable orgy, this divine prostitution of the soul giving itself entire, all its poetry and all its charity, to the unexpected as it comes along, to the stranger as he passes.
Charles Baudelaire
#3. 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 until it hurts.
Majora Carter
#4. The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it is truth alone that makes us free.
Swami Vivekananda
#5. While the word charity connotes a single act of giving, justice speaks to right living, of aligning oneself with the world in a way that sustains rather than exploits the rest of creation.
Rachel Held Evans
#6. Dogmas of every kind put assertion in the place of reason and give rise to more contention, bitterness, and want of charity than any other influence in human affairs.
Arthur Conan Doyle
#7. I think after a certain amount, I'm going to give almost everything I have to charity. What else can you do with it? You can't spend it, even if you try. I've been trying.
Larry Ellison
#8. In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#9. Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.
Lord Chesterfield
#10. Charity feeds the poor, so does pride; charity builds an hospital, so does pride. In this they differ: charity gives her glory to God; pride takes her glory from man.
Francis Quarles
#11. Vitarags [the enlightened one] do not have a desire for giving or receiving charity. They are in the state of 'shuddh upyog' [pure awareness of pure soul].
Dada Bhagwan
#12. We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all
Nelson Mandela
#13. I'm very passionate about charity ... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back.
Demi Lovato
#14. The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him
Voltaire
#16. My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
Manoj Bhargava
#17. The highest form of charity is giving education with love.
Debasish Mridha
#18. When people grow gradually rich their requirements and standard of living expand in proportion, while their present-giving instincts often remain in the undeveloped condition of their earlier days. Something showy and not-too-expensive in a shop is their only conception of the ideal gift.
Hector Hugh Munro
#21. In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
George MacDonald
#22. Kindness is a magical spell - performed by enlightened beings - meant to enchant hearts and lift weary souls that they might fly.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#23. I'm going to give away a lot more than half my money. I'd be happy to give that to the government if the government put together programs that were like I'm giving away to charity, in which I believe the money is effectively used to help people.
Ray Dalio
#24. The next time you want to withhold your help, or your love, or your support for another for whatever the reason, ask yourself a simple question: do the reasons you want to withhold it reflect more on them or on you? And which reasons do you want defining you forevermore?
Dan Pearce
#25. Contrary to popular opinion, we are all a vast brotherhood of human beings whose very survival hinges not on what we keep, but on what we give. And it is in the giving that we not only survive to live another day, but we thrive to celebrate another day.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#26. It is easier to give all your goods to feed the poor, or not to have any goods - only your virtues, to boast of - than it is to judge the rich with charity ...
Corra May Harris
#27. If I ever get out of here, thought of giving it all away to a registered charity.
Paul McCartney
#28. It is a deed of greater charity to give a bit of bread to the poor in the time of high prices and famine, than a whole loaf in the time of fertility and abundance ...
Christine De Pizan
#29. In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly.
Robert Paul Weston
#31. I'd like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die.
Steve Ballmer
#32. It's in vogue to have a cause and give money in charity. But to actually speak up and say something like, I'm pissed about this - that doesn't seem to be very popular unless you're writing a blog or tweeting.
Conor Oberst
#33. Sow success and hope unto others, and more success and hope becomes what you permanently reap.
Auliq Ice
#34. Real charity and real ability never to condemn-the one real virtue-is so often the result of a waking experience that gives a glimpse of what lies beneath things.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#35. Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings.
Francis Quarles
#36. Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people what they need to get.
Terry Pratchett
#37. What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.
Swami Vivekananda
#38. It is easy to do things for our own families and loved ones, but to give of our substance for the stranger who is in need is the real test of our charity and love for our fellowmen.
Nathan Eldon Tanner
#39. Women know the damnation of charity because the habit of civilization has always been to throw them cheap alms rather than give them good wages.
Rebecca West
#40. Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.
Meher Baba
#41. Sit with me, and I'll not be alone.
Hold my hand, and I'll not feel alone.
Cry with me, and I'll no longer suffer alone.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#42. My husband and I are big givers to charity, and we are teaching our son Barron all about giving his old toys away to children who might not have any.
Melania Trump
#43. The charitable give out at the door, and God puts in at the window.
John Ray
#44. Frequently give up some of your property by giving it with a generous heart to the poor ... It is true that God will repay us not only in the next world but even in this.
Francis De Sales
#45. People of God are always people who care about other people and it always comes at some cost.
D'Andre Lampkin
#46. It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
Mother Teresa
#47. An old man, broken with the storms of state,
Is come to lay his weary bones among ye;
Give him a little earth for charity!
William Shakespeare
#48. When a man becomes a Christian, he becomes industrious, trustworthy and prosperous. Now, if that man when he gets all he can and saves all he can, does not give all he can, I have more hope for Judas Iscariot than for that man!
John Wesley
#51. It seems a peculiar thing when I go to fill my own cup; it remains empty as if the liquid evaporates as soon as it touches the glass. Yet when I reach to top off the cups of others, my own spills over. This is the crazy magic of charity.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#52. Kindness is a currency that can cover a multitude of interpersonal debts.
George Alexiou
#53. Success follows those who champion a cause greater than themselves.
George Alexiou
#54. Each Jew must either give or take tzedakah [charity] for Passover.
Sholom Aleichem
#55. Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not brought into personal relation with those to whom he gives.
James Anthony Froude
#56. Writing a check was easily done, and easily done with. It allows us to do "charity" while keeping at bay the inner tug that urges us to give more of ourselves and our time, rather than our possessions.
Joseph Langford
#58. Laine taped the last box shut. That was it, then: All of Gavin's belongings put away; some for charity, some for the dump, some to be saved for a happier 'one day' that Laine felt, right now, was as distant as the stars.
Stephen M. Irwin
#59. The greatest lesson you might ever learn in this life is this: It is not about you.
Shannon L. Alder
#60. You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
Samuel Johnson
#61. Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational; I'm swayed by my biases and my emotions.
Paul Bloom
#62. I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
Will Rogers
#63. Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
Fulton J. Sheen
#64. No one in this world can starve n die.. One who does, had died much before then ... Never give money to beggars and specially children on street ... By giving them money, Either u would be killing them or helping them in dieing (indirectly) ...
Honeya
#65. His mum had loved her ornaments, as she called them, but when she died, his dad waited about a week before boxing them up and giving them to a charity shop. "I loved your mum, Quinton," he'd said, "but I hate them fuckin' porcelaincats.
India Drummond
#66. Usury was seen above all as an assault on Christian charity, on Jesus's injunction to treat the poor as they would treat the Christ himself, giving without expectation of return and allowing the borrower to decide on recompense (Luke 6:34
David Graeber
#67. I want to get the point across that you may not have money to give to a charity, whether that is Ronald McDonald House or Broadway Cares or DIFFA, but you can help RAISE money or give your time and talents.
Douglas Wilson
#68. The principle of compassion is that which converts disillusionment into a participatory companionship. This is the basic love, the charity, that turns a critic into a living human being who has something to give to - as well as to demand of - the world.
Joseph Campbell
#69. We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.
Paul Bloom
#70. It is the apathetic person that sees the cause while the charitable person sees the need.
Shannon L. Alder
#71. The festive season isn't just a time to teach children about Jesus and giving, it's also a time to teach your children about those less fortunate. This year, encourage your children to pick a present and give it to a child who has none, or take them to a charity drive.
Soraya Diase Coffelt
#72. The miracle is this - the more you give, the more you have.
Leonard Nimoy
#73. Happiness is a wondrous commodity: the more you give, the more you have.
Madame De Stael
#74. Some men mistake generosity for charity: these flatter themselves that they are giving gratuitously, whilst they are merely rewarding secret services offered their vanity.
Norm MacDonald
#76. To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity.
Howard Lyman
#77. When you judge yourself for needing help, you judge those you are helping. When you attach value to giving help, you attach value to needing help.
Brene Brown
#78. Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
Emily Bronte
#79. Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman
#80. To give requires good sense.
Ovid
#81. Love is donating a chunk of your life to patch up holes in the life of another.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#82. Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.
James Cook
#83. You don't do kind deeds expecting kindness in return. You don't do kind deeds because you deem the recipient worthy. You do kind deeds because it's who you are, and because you understand the powerful difference your gentle hand makes in this dreary world.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#84. Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
William Wycherley
#86. I as little fear that God will damn a person who has charity as I hope that the priests can save one who has not.
Alexander Pope
#87. O fire of love! Was it not enough for You to have created us to Your image and likeness, and to have recreated us in grace through the Blood of Your Son, without giving Yourself wholly to us as our Food, O God, Divine Essence? What impelled You to do this? Your charity alone.
St. Catherine Of Siena
#88. Dear young people, the Church depends on you! She needs your lively faith, your creative charity and the energy of your hope. Your presence renews, rejuvenates and gives new energy to the Church.
Pope Benedict XVI
#89. Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires.
Swami Vivekananda
#90. Real charity is giving from the heart without taking credit.
Michael Jackson
#91. In my own life, I do not live like an effective altruist. An effective altruist would really disapprove of my life. I don't give enough to charity and I still have both my kidneys.
Paul Bloom
#92. I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
John D. Rockefeller
#93. It is with charity as with money
the more we stand in need of it, the less we have to give away.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#94. Make haste in giving voluntary charity, for calamities cannot pass by it.
Al-Tabarani
#95. As I "won," I didn't feel the fruits of that. I felt the fruits when I served others, when I gave myself away ... I've always seen my life as an experiment. I just want to go to what works. As I felt the charity aspect in my life, the giving aspect, I felt a power and I've walked more into that.
Tom Shadyac
#96. Sometimes give your services for nothing.
Hippocrates
#97. Charity requires sacrifice, and members of Congress could set a good example of charity by giving up their pay increase.
Tom Coburn
#98. Tax deductible, That's what you are: Tax deductible. Just like my car, like a gift to local charity, you give my 1040 clarity
Steven Zelin
#99. The greatest gift you can give is your time. Not money, not items, not food, not pretty cards with handwritten sentiment, but time. People need your presence. The way you can help a soul the most is to simply be there.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#100. I am blessed beyond the realms of blessedness, and easily the greatest pleasure is giving it away
Joanna Lumley
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