Quotes and Sayings About Charity
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Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The noblest impulse generous minds can feel.
-- Aaron HillSource : Aaron Hill, James Cawthorn, Michael Bruce (1822). “The Poems of Hill, Cawthorn, and Bruce”, p.43
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I came from a wealthy family. I made over my share of the estate to various charities.
-- Abbe Pierre -
Anyone who can walk to the welfare office can walk to work.
-- Al Capp -
Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto.
-- Aldous Huxley -
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Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species.
-- Alex Meraz -
In faith and hope the world will disagree, but all mankind's concern is charity.
-- Alexander Pope -
Fool, 'tis in vain from wit to wit to roam: Know, sense, like charity, begins at home.
-- Alexander Pope -
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 -
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If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.
-- Alexei Sayle -
True charity consists in doing good to those who do us evil, and in thus winning them over.
-- Alphonsus Liguori -
Truth is inclusive of all the virtues, is older than sects and schools, and, like charity, more ancient than mankind.
-- Amos Bronson AlcottSource : Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”
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It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
Wealth is not to feed our egos but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
-- Andrew Carnegie -
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
-- Anne Baxter -
Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.
-- Anne Catherine Emmerich -
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An apostolic missionary must have both heart and tongue ablaze with charity.
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Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery -
A large heart can be filled with very little.
-- Antonio PorchiaSource : "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.
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The work of volunteers impacts on all our lives, even if we are not aware of it.
-- Antony Worrall Thompson -
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I would like it to be a legal requirement for all businesses to be linked to a charity.
-- Arabella Weir -
Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.
-- Arpad BussonSource : "Can this 'venture philanthropist' save our schools?". www.theguardian.com. May 29, 2005.
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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 DoyleSource : Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1986). “Letters to the press: the unknown Conan Doyle”, Harvill Secker
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Education cannot be a matter of charity, Education has to be a matter of Right.
-- Arvind Kejriwal -
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Thus human beings judge of one another, superficially, casually, throwing contempt on one another, with but little reason, and no charity.
-- Baroness OrczySource : Baroness Orczy (2012). “The Scarlet Pimpernel”, p.100, Courier Corporation
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It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.
-- Ben Kingsley -
And I have found that when we Catholics, in the spirit of love and charity, declare our faith boldly and with conviction, we are more likely to find kindred spirits. This is how we must comport ourselves if we are to fulfill our Lord's command in the Gospel of John (17:21), Ut unum sint, that all may be one.
-- Benedict Groeschel -
I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'
-- Benjamin Franklin -
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When we do any good to others, we do as much, or more, good to ourselves.
-- Benjamin Whichcote -
A benefactor is a representative of God.
-- Benjamin Whichcote