Top 35 Quotes About Charity And Generosity
#1. To forgive a friend, one must practice generosity. To forgive an enemy, one must practice empathy. To forgive yourself requires charity. Forgiveness is a sacred act of gallantry.
Mac MacKenzie
#2. Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a closed mouth.
Francis Quarles
#3. Hearts who struggled worst never gives up on possibilities when finding solutions reaching out for others' loss & despair.
Angelica Hopes
#4. You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
John Bunyan
#5. I should be able to pick which applications I use for managing my life, I should be able to pick which content I look at, and I should be able to pick which device I use, which company I use for supplying my internet, and I'd like those to be independent choices.
Tim Berners-Lee
#6. Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Albert Camus
#7. I learned that pretending you don't have feelings makes you feel unhappy and unfulfilled and, ultimately, is what really makes you vulnerable because you are hiding from the truth.
Daphne Oz
#8. I thought not being part of the [Britain] union was a bad idea. We are better together.
It was dangerous for business as there were no [concrete] plans around the currency or the economy.
Michelle Mone
#9. Either the key to a man's wallet is in his heart, or the key to a man's heart is in his wallet.
So, unless you express your charity, you are locked inside your greed.
Noah Benshea
#10. Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.
Socrates
#11. I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham Lincoln
#12. Be a gift, a light, a blessing as far as the eye can see to answer a call as well as a genuine, compassionate heart can reach.
Angelica Hopes
#13. That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
Simone De Beauvoir
#14. I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.
Tamsin Greig
#15. I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.
Muhammad Ali
#16. I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
Will Rogers
#17. There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
John Holmes
#19. I owe a lot to this club and the supporters who were always there for me. They supported me even when I was suspended.
(on his former club CSKA Sofia)
Hristo Stoichkov
#21. Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.
Paul J. Zak
#22. 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
#23. I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.
Paul Theroux
#24. But I want to spend the whole trip out here, with the ocean replenishing her treasures like an old shopkeeper as I sleep alongside her in the sand.
Sarah Ockler
#25. I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
E. O. Wilson
#27. In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#28. Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed
Mahatma Gandhi
#29. Parenthood ... It's about guiding the next generation, and forgiving the last.
Peter Krause
#31. I've learned that generosity is far easier than justice and that, in the highly distorted markets of the poor, it is all too easy to veer only toward the charitable, to have low
or no
expectations for low-income people. This does nothing but reaffirm prejudices on all sides.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#32. Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#33. People, most especially those who have known ease in this life, care more about being prospered than refined. It's always about what they can get from God, not what they can do for others, unless they can call attention to it for others to see.
Donna Lynn Hope
#34. I love my life, but I don't think I'm any happier than my younger brother Andre, who drives a garbage truck.
Chris Rock
#35. There aren't nearly enough worldly mansions for the kind folks who deserve them.
Bryant A. Loney
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