Victor Hugo Quotes

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

Victor Hugo

• Charity
• Possession
• Cheerfulness

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• My favorite charity is the Women's Refugee Commission and the Nomi network.

  

  Mamie Gummer
  • Women
  • Charity
  • Refugee

• I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change people's lives, and I've had lots of wonderful letters about it.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Change
  • Challenge

• Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.

  

  Zhuangzi
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Nature

• It's time to stop obsessing about overhead and start focusing on progress. Change charity, and charity can change the world.

  

  Dan Pallotta
  • Time
  • World
  • Change

• I'm always keen to have more training as a charity patron.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Always
  • Training
  • Charity

• My grandmother always said, 'when you receive a paycheck, you always have to put a certain amount to your savings, and 10 percent right away to charity.'

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • You
  • Grandmother
  • Charity

• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Force

• Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Myself
  • Charity
  • Give

• A charity ball is like a dance except it's tax deductible.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Dance
  • Charity

• The territorial aristocracy of former ages was either bound by law, or thought itself bound by usage, to come to the relief of its serving-men and to relieve their distresses. But the manufacturing aristocracy of our age first impoverishes and debases the men who serve it and then abandons them to be supported by the charity of the public.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • Men
  • Age
  • Law

• He had that faint sick look in his eyes, as if he wanted to give her something, charity for instance.

  

  Margaret Atwood
  • Eyes
  • Sick
  • Charity

• As soon as you become of interest to the media, the charity requests start rolling in, and it's not easy saying no. But if you endorse every charity that asks you, you're not really endorsing any of them. It has to mean something.

  

  David Harewood
  • Charity

• I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.

  

  Arabella Weir
  • Charity

• I've long wanted to find a charitable cause to really get involved with and be passionate about. I get invited to a lot of charity events to sing, and I am happy to help and bring a source of entertainment, but I'm sort of disconnected from them.

  

  Katharine McPhee
  • Long
  • Happy
  • Help

• Twitter is just like posting old-fashioned press releases, and it can be very effective in promoting your business interests and charity work.

  

  Cindy Crawford
  • Work
  • Business
  • Charity

• That's why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.

  

  Maria Menounos
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.

  

  Buddha
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Growth

• I am not Superwoman. The reality of my daily life is that I'm juggling a lot of balls in the air trying to be a good wife and mother, trying to be the prime-ministerial consort at home and abroad, barrister and charity worker, and sometimes one of the balls gets dropped.

  

  Cherie Blair
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• We actually, as a band, have always been really adamant since the beginning about trying to be involved in charity any way we can.

  

  Mark Pontius
  • Trying
  • Band
  • Beginning

• It's a very cheery thing to come into London by any of these lines which run high and allow you to look down upon the houses like this." I thought he was joking, for the view was sordid enough, but he soon explained himself. "Look at those big, isolated clumps of buildings rising up above the slates, like brick islands in a lead-coloured sea." "The board-schools." "Light-houses, my boy! Beacons of the future! Capsules with hundreds of bright little seeds in each, out of which will spring the wiser, better England of the future.

  

  Arthur Conan Doyle
  • Future
  • Lines
  • England

• Let me explain something about guitar playing. Everyone's got their own character, and that's the thing that's amazed me about guitar playing since the day I first picked it up. Everyone's approach to what can come out of six strings is different from another person, but it's all valid.

  

  Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin
  • Playing
  • Guitar
  • Explain

• Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Charity
  • Possession
  • Cheerfulness