Giving To Charity Quotes:

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Self Esteem, Helping Others, Numbers, Incrementalism, Others Helping You

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

- John Wesley

source: 'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

topic: Life, Motivational, Christmas, Kindness Generosity, Inspiring Volunteer

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

- Calvin Coolidge

source: Calvin Coolidge (1920). “Law and Order”

topic: Life, Leadership, Motivational Sports, Inspirational Charity, Kindness Generosity

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

- Winston Churchill

topic: Love, Inspirational, Life, Social Good, Making A Difference In The World

It's easy to make a buck. It's a lot tougher to make a difference.

- Tom Brokaw

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Appreciation, Motivation, Social Good, Inspirational Charity

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

- George Sand

topic: Aggravation, Charity, Charity And Love, Philanthropy Giving, Giving To Charity

Christian life consists of faith and charity

- Martin Luther

topic: Christian, Charity, Christian Life, Giving To Charity

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

source: James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1866). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.33

topic: Giving, Charity, Pay, Charity Work, Recompense

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

- Simone de Beauvoir

topic: Inspirational, Insperational, Giving, Kindness Generosity, Give It Your All

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

- Nelson Henderson

source: "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

topic: Graduation, Tree, Shade, Meaning Life, Arbor Day

The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.

- Robert Breault

topic: Inspiration, Volunteer, Community, Social Good, Inspirational Charity

The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.

- Homer

topic: Inspirational, Teaching, Teens, Charity And Love, Giving To Charity

Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.

- Albert Schweitzer

topic: Appreciation, Responsibility, Helping Others, Social Good, Donate

With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: Military, Giving, Firmness, Inaugural, Inaugural Speech

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

- Mother Teresa

topic: Love, Peace, Money, Kindness Generosity, Inspirational Volunteer

I am but a small pencil in the hand of a writing God

- Mother Teresa

topic: Writing, Hands, Making A Difference, Love Letter, Little Hands

And there is no use whatever, gentlemen, trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push any one up a ladder unless he be willing to climb a little himself.

- Andrew Carnegie

source: "The Empire of Business".

topic: Inspirational Charity, Inspirational Service, Others Helping You, Helping People, Help And Support

It is from the numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

- Robert Kennedy

source: Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

topic: Change, Courage, Peace, Social Injustice, Justice And Injustice

I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Charity, Philanthropy, Rich, Philanthropic, Philanthropy Giving

Be The Peace You Wish To See In The World!

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Important Work, Social Good

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

- Abraham Lincoln

topic: God, Business, Giving, Firmness, Inaugural Address

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

- Mahatma Gandhi

topic: Peace, Sacrifice, Race, Non Violence, Charity And Generosity

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great, because greatness is determined by service.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Greatness, Determined, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Volunteer, Leadership And Service

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Work, Generosity, Giving, Joy Of Giving, Generosity And Giving

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

- George Eliot

topic: Luxury, Giving, Charity, Philanthropic, Philanthropy Giving

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

source: Martin Luther King Jr. (1963). “Strength to Love”

topic: Inspirational, Friendship, Positive, Social Entrepreneurship, Making A Difference In The World

No one has ever become poor by giving.

- Anne Frank

topic: Inspirational, Morning, Kindness, Giving Love, Charitable

Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man's growth without destroying his roots.

- Frank A. Clark

topic: Encouragement, Rain, Hard Work, Inspirational Charity, Inspirational Service

The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.

- Henry Ford

topic: Life, Money, Inspiration, Makin Money, Betterment

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

- John D. Rockefeller

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Motivational, Independent, Charity, Philanthropic, Charity And Giving

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

topic: Gratitude, Charity, Made, Charity And Giving, Charity And Love

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

- Francis of Assisi

topic: Love, Fear, Ignorance, Inspirational Charity, Charity And Giving

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

- John Bunyan

topic: Motivational, Success, Perseverance, Inspirational Charity, Kindness Generosity

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

- Aesop

source: Aesop (1963). “Aesop's fables”, Cliffs Notes

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Making A Difference In The World, Joy Happiness

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

topic: Dream, Men, Volunteer, Charity And Giving, Charity And Love

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: "The Power of Purpose: Find Meaning, Live Longer, Better". Book by Richard Leider, p. 35., 2010.

topic: Encouragement, Freedom, Business, Way In Life, Social Good

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

- Bob Hope

topic: Life, Happiness, Success, Inspirational Charity, Kind People

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

- Muhammad Ali

source: Twitter post from May 26, 2010

topic: Basketball, Fighting, Helping Others, Making A Difference In The World, Social Service

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.

- Unknown

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Way In Life, Empowering Women

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

- Thomas Fuller

topic: Kindness, Home, Charity, Charitable, Charity And Love

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

- Jack London

source: Jack London (2015). “The Road: Classic American Literature”, p.3, 谷月社

topic: Dog, Generosity, Giving, Philanthropic, Charity And Giving

Everybody can be great...because anybody can serve. You don't have to have a college degree to serve. You don't have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

- Martin Luther King, Jr.

topic: Love, Inspirational, Marriage, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Charity

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Life, Humility, Philanthropic, Charity And Generosity

A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

- Mahatma Gandhi

source: Mahatma Gandhi (1983). “Collected Works”

topic: Men, Done, Charity, Inspirational Charity, Hereafter

To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter.

- Aristotle

topic: Inspirational, Education, Money, Money And Power, Money Matters

I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

- William Penn

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Inspirational Charity, Kindness And Compassion

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

- Dr. Seuss

source: The Lorax (1971)

topic: Inspirational, Life, Fun, Making A Difference In The World, Inspirational Children

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

- Gautama Buddha

topic: Happiness, Happy, Buddhist, Making A Difference In The World, Joy Happiness

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Inspirational, Life, Motivational, Importunate, Had A Great Time