Charity Quotes
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You only get to keep what you give away.
Bill Vaughan
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I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.
Jacqueline Novogratz
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In religion as in politics it so happens that we have less charity for those who believe half our creed, than for those who deny the whole of it.
Charles Caleb Colton
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I do as much charity work as I can and that my family life will allow. I do believe charity begins at home and the more we focus on our families, the better they will be.
Jamie Lee Curtis
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The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.
Sargent Shriver
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Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice.
Barack Obama
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Beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service, Love, friendship, charity, are subjects all To envious and calumniating time.
William Shakespeare
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When I got signed, I wanted to be involved in a charity, but it was hard because I didn't know which problems to start with.
Tyler Hilton
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Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
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There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
Francois Rabelais
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Charity should be abolished; and be replaced by justice.
Norman Bethune
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Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God.
William Howard Taft
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I think that we're guided by the motto in "essentials unity, non essentials liberty and in all things charity." So if pastors compromise essential Christian doctrine, I think that there is a biblical warrant for naming them.
Hank Hanegraaff
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Charity must become a fundamental state of mind and heart that guides us in all we do.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.
Lady Caroline Lamb
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Traditional charity is still fairly focused on how it makes donors feel as opposed to outcomes for people that need help.
Leila Janah
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“They gave no alms; in their view charity simply demoralized people. If you worked as hard as they did then you would earn as much too: it was open to everyone to do so, and if you didn’t know how to get on in life that was your own fault.”
Wladyslaw Szpilman
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The government of the United States is a definite government, confined to specified objects. It is not like the state governments, whose powers are more general. Charity is no part of the legislative duty of the government.
James Madison
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Friendship includes charity. But there's no charity in sex.
Kingsley Amis
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I don't want to be a celebrity who's trying to like say, «look at this charity work I'm doing».
Natalie Portman
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Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.
Victor Hugo
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People who invented the word charity, and used it in a good sense, inculcated more clearly, and much more efficaciously, the precept, Be charitable, than any pretended legislator or prophet, who should insert such a maxim in his writings.
David Hume
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My mom has this great skiing event in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, every year for a local charity.
Joely Fisher
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Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave.
William Shakespeare