Top 100 Quotes About Giving To Charity
#1. 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
#2. In Japan, it's strange to openly take credit for giving to charity or even to donate publicly.
Robert Paul Weston
#3. The estate taxes, on balance, are good. They get people to give money to charity, and they prevent these family dynasties which keep other people from having opportunities. It may be good for a family, but for society it's probably not good. And I've always been in favor of having an estate tax.
Michael Bloomberg
#4. 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
#5. I don't know how many millions I'll make, so I have to give some back to charity. God blesses me with the money, but only if I give some away.
Muhammad Ali
#7. When I die, I should be ashamed to leave enough to build me a monument if there were a wanting friend above ground. I would enjoy the pleasure of what I give by giving it alive and seeing another enjoy it.
Alexander Pope
#8. Being innovative in your philanthropy allows you to stride forward in your giving journey; you can marry your mind and heart to turn charity into lasting impact; and you can become more ambitious in your giving.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#9. By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, and what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
Homer
#10. It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless.
Epictetus
#11. An environmentalist that eats meat is like a philanthropist that won't give money to charities.
Howard Lyman
#12. The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.
Jane Smiley
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. 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
#23. Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.
William Wycherley
#24. Government charity gives the most to those who refuse to help themselves; private charity gives less.
James Cook
#25. Love is donating a chunk of your life to patch up holes in the life of another.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#26. To give requires good sense.
Ovid
#28. Service is a smile. It is an acknowledging wave, a reaching handshake, a friendly wink, and a warm hug. It's these simple acts that matter most, because the greatest service to a human soul has always been the kindness of recognition.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#29. It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.
Andrew Carnegie
#30. We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.
Angela Merici
#31. There are a lot worse things you can do with all your bucks than giving them to even a mediocre mutual fund - such as, for example, giving them to a mediocre hedge fund. If supporting the lifestyle of a mediocre fund manager is your favorite charity, who am I to stop you?
Gary Weiss
#32. Remember to set apart at least one hour every day to do some service for others. While the food we eat nurtures our bodies, it is what we give in charity that nurtures our souls. If time is not available daily, reserve at least a few hours every week for some worthwhile act of charity.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#33. Fashion and wearing clothes is a daily routine for everybody. What better way to spread the word of giving back and philanthropic ways of life than to wear something that gives back to charity?
Patrick Schwarzenegger
#34. When in doubt as to what you should do, err on the side of 'giving.
Tony Cleaver
#35. I've always been generous and like giving to charities and people in need.
Brian Blessed
#36. Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#37. 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
#38. The more good I do, the more money has come in. You have to learn to give. You're not born to give. You're born selfish.
Ted Turner
#39. Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#40. Hebrew word for "charity" tzedakah, simply means "justice" and as this suggests, for Jews, giving to the poor is no optional extra but an essential part of living a just life.
Peter Singer
#41. You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.
Bill Gates
#43. Giving the rugged repairman the eye was one thing
but Charity had no intention of snogging away a whole rainy afternoon when she was supposed to be catching up on her work. Lady Margaret was counting on her! But then again, Lady Margaret didn't have big brown eyes and a cheeky grin.
Elizabeth Jane Howard
#44. Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul's true and lasting happiness.
Alfred Billings Street
#45. Policies are also to blame: the only thing that the governments and people can come up with to give to the poor people is charity. Poor people get hand outs from the state. But this is not a solution to poverty.
Muhammad Yunus
#46. A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.
Nachman Of Breslov
#47. On the other hand, Allah directs man to the spiritual purity through the act of giving that is represented by charity that the pious pays as "Zakat" and "Sadakat" almsgiving, and other financial obligations.
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
#48. I've been doing a lot of stuff that has to do with charity and giving. I'm trying to give and not take as much.
Mark Indelicato
#49. The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need
not try to find out whether that charity is a fraud or not.
C.S. Lewis
#50. All zeal for a reform, that gives offence To peace and charity, is mere pretence.
William Cowper
#51. Socially prominent people are very fond of disease, because it gives them a chance to have these really elaborate charity functions, and the newspaper headlines say 'EVENING IN PARIS BALL RAISES MONEY TO FIGHT GOUT' instead of 'RICH PEOPLE AMUSE THEMSELVES'.
Dave Barry
#52. 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
#53. Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings.
Francis Quarles
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. I'd like to own Microsoft shares until I either give something to charity or I die.
Steve Ballmer
#57. 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
#58. If I ever get out of here, thought of giving it all away to a registered charity.
Paul McCartney
#59. 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
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Kindness is a magical spell - performed by enlightened beings - meant to enchant hearts and lift weary souls that they might fly.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#64. In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.
George MacDonald
#65. Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people what they need to get.
Terry Pratchett
#66. The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him
Voltaire
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Give nobly to indigent merit, and do not refuse your charity even to those who have not merit but their misery.
Lord Chesterfield
#70. In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.
Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. 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
#77. 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
#78. 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
#79. 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
#80. 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
#81. 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
#82. 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
#83. 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
#84. Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.
Fulton J. Sheen
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. 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
#89. To consider yourself an environmentalist and still eat meat is like saying you're a philanthropist who doesn't give to charity.
Howard Lyman
#90. 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
#91. 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
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. 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
#97. 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
#98. 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
#99. 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
#100. 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
