Charity Quotes And Sayings

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“He who gives early gives twice.”
– Don Miguel De Cervantes

“Keep hope alive” 
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

“Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better.  It’s not.”
– Dr. Seuss

“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.”
– Edmund Burke

“I am only one, but I am one.  I cannot do everything, but I can do something.  And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.”
– Edward Everett Hale

“Down in their hearts, wise men know this truth: the only way to help yourself is to help others.” 
– Elbert Hubbard

“Live simply that others might simply live.”
– Elizabeth Ann Seton

“Remember, we all stumble, every one of us. That’s why it’s a comfort to go hand in hand.”
– Emily Kimbrough

“Charity begins at home, but should not end there.”
– English Proverb

“I shall pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.”
– Etienne De Grellet

“The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

“The living need charity more than the dead.”
– George Arnold

“This is the true joy in life – being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as I live it is my privilege — my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I love. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of splendid torch which I’ve got a hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”
– George Bernard Shaw

“One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!”
– George Eliot

“Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow’s mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer.”
– George Washington

“Charity sees the need, not the cause.”
– German Proverb

“The habit of being uniformly considerate towards others will bring increased happiness to you.”
– Grenville Kleiser

“I am only one; but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; I will not refuse to do the something I can do.” 
– Helen Keller

“Life is short. Be swift to love! Make haste to be kind!” 
– Henri Amiel

“Goodness is the only investment that never fails.” 
– Henry David Thoreau

“You will find, as you look back on your life, that the moments that stand out are the moments when you have done things for others.”
– Henry Drummond

“The highest use of capital is not to make more money but to make money do more for the betterment of life.”
– Henry Ford

“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

“Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her egg and then cackles.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.”
– Henry Ward Beecher

“Aside from higher considerations, charity often operates as a vastly wise and prudent principle–a great safeguard to its possessor. Men have committed murder for jealousy‘s sake, and anger‘s sake, and hatred’s sake, and selfishness’ sake, and spiritual pride’s sake; but no man that ever I heard of, ever committed a diabolical murder for sweet charity’s sake. Mere self-interest, then, if no better motive can be enlisted, should, especially with high-tempered men, prompt all beings to charity and philanthropy.”
– Herman Melville

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.”
– Horace Mann

“How white are the fair robes of Charity as she walketh amid the lowly habitations of the poor!”
– Hosea Ballou

“The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.”
– Ivan Panin, Thoughts

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