Charity is an organization whose purpose is to give money, food, or help to those who need it, or to carry out activities such as medical research that will help people in need, and not to make a profit. Profoundly inspirational charity quotes will make you look at life differently and help you live a meaningful life.
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Famous Charity Quotes
Gentleness, self sacrifice, and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. Mahatma Gandhi
No one has ever become poor by giving. Anne Frank
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. Rabindranath Tagore
It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. Mother Theresa
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Edmund Burke
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. John Holmes
We can do no great things, only small things with great love. Mother Teresa
In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it’s wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices. Elizabeth Gilbert
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. Mother Teresa
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed. Maya Angelou
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
When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. Winston Churchill
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
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. Victor Hugo
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. John Bunyan
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
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary. Chinua Achebe
The living need charity more than the dead. George Arnold
Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you. Shannon Alder
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. Dr. Seuss
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. Martin Luther King, Jr.
Extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can. Oprah Winfrey
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer. Mahatma Gandhi
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can. Princess Diana
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
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. Princess Diana
We only have what we give. Isabel Allende
We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. Ronald Reagan
I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. Abraham Lincoln
He who waits to a great deal of good at once will never do anything. Samuel Johnson
Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead. Mother Teresa
In necessary thing, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. Anne Baxter
Give, but give until it hurts. Mother Teresa
The practice of charity will bind us will bind all men in one great brotherhood. Conrad Hilton
Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you. Shannon L. Alder
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is human, The latter is divine. Hosea Ballou
To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own. Abraham Lincoln
Find a need and fill it. Ruth Stafford Peale
If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent. Warren Buffett
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. Francis Quarles
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power. Marcus Aurelius
All things are perceived in the light of charity and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love. Evelyn Underhill
Once poverty is gone, we’ll need to build museums to display its horrors to future generations. They’ll wonder why poverty continued so long in human society how a few people could live in luxury while billions dwelt in misery, deprivation and despair. Muhammad Yunus
My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share and that no one starves while I eat. Leo Tolstoy
Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery. Terry Goodkind
Charity is great but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism. Swami Vivekananda
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. Horace Mann
Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. this shows that we are made to live by charity. C.S.Lewis
There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother. Theodore Roosevelt
God has given us two hands, one to receive and the other to give with. Billy Graham
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do. John Quincy Adams
Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and only live for ourselves? Live your life to help others. Give and live selflessly. Joyce Meyer
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. Alexander Pope
Charity is the root of all good works. Saint Augustine
God damn it, you’ve got to be kind. Kurt Vonnegut
Even charity so called has lent its patronage against little children. Benjamin Waugh
The most treasured and sacred moments of our lives are those filled with the spirit of love. The greater the measure of our love, the greater is our joy. In the end, the development of such love is the true measure of success in life. Joseph B. Wirthlin
In advocating the case of the persons thus dispossessed, it is a right, not a charity, that I am pleading for. Tomas Paine
It is easy to be conspicuously compassionate if others are being forced to pay the cost. Murray N. Rothbard
When justice is done, the mission of charity is finished. Milan C. Edson
I’m starting to think this world is just a place for us to learn that we need each other more than we want to admit. Richelle E. Goodrich
While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary. Chinua Achebe
Don’t judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence. Josemaría Escrivá
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. Charlotte Bronte
Real women fight for something, other than their own emotions. Shannon L. Alder
Having leveled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home. Emily Bronte
Behold I do not give lectures or a little charity, when I give I give myself. Walt Whitman
Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation, it be, bringeth forth good fruit. Thoman A Kempis
That’s it. Love makes us all strong. E.A. Bucchianeri
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow men, not knowing what they do. John Quincy Adams
Many love humanity only in order to forget God with a clear conscience. Nicolás Gómez Dávila
It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it. Albert Einstein
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world! Mary Wollstonecraft
