Charity Quotes
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Even the poor should give something to charity.
Nachman of Breslov
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There is no better feeling than doing well while you are doing good. If you really want to meet the nicest, most caring people in your field, get involved with charity work. The thankless hours that go into planning charity dinners, running a carnival, and gathering donations for silent auctions are noticed and appreciated.
Jay Samit
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My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day.
Denis Leary
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Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
Isaac Barrow
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IIFA is always involved in charity, and that's why it's a great thing that I am a part of IIFA and will continue to work along with them.
Akshay Kumar
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Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
David Boreanaz
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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
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The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.
Claudio Hummes
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Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Francis Bacon
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It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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Slander is a poison which kills charity, both in the slanderer and the one who listens.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.
Yogi Berra
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I'm always keen to have more training as a charity patron.
Olivia Colman
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I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.
Glenn Frey The Eagles
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I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye love one another." Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me.
Saint Basil
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I only started to understand the concept of "environmental protection" 14 years ago. I was an ambassador for a charity event, and the staff told me that the consumption of disposable chopsticks in China, per year, could result in the devastation of unimaginable acres of forest.
Li Bingbing
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We are not coaching on a daily basis because we often travel with our charity and commercial interests.
Nadia Comaneci
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If I'm owed money, but I say, 'Don't pay me, pay my cousin. Don't pay me, pay my charity,' you can do that, but then the IRS requires that you pay income tax on that. It's your income if you earned it and you directed where it went. If you exercised control over where the money went, you have to pay income tax on that.
David Fahrenthold
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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
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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
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I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.
Bob Woodward
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I'm always looking to the next thing. There are always hurdles, whether it's the White House dinner or hosting charity events or that night's show: Until they're over, I worry, then I move right on to the next thing. It's hard for me to enjoy the moment. I'm just thinking about not failing.
Jimmy Kimmel
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There's a big difference between charity and between activism and philanthropy. They're very different things and I think, you know, everybody should find a passion or a cause that they can really get behind, but it has to be organic.
Eva Longoria
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Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.
Bryan Adams