Charity Quotes

“For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.

For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.

For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.

For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day.

For poise [Poise is a graceful, very controlled way of standing and moving], walk with the knowledge you’ll never walk alone.

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We leave you a tradition with a future.

The tender loving care of human beings will never become obsolete.

People even more than things have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed and redeemed and redeemed and redeemed.

Never throw out anybody.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.

Your “good old days” are still ahead of you, may you have many of them.”

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“No one has ever become poor by giving.”

“It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”

“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”

“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.”

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”

“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.”

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

“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism [When there’s a conflict, creative altruism is more than an outcome; it’s a process that results in win/win results for everyone. And it’s a process that requires dialog. How To Practice Creative Altruism in the Midst of Conflict Being creatively altruistic is not something we do on our own to or for someone else] or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”

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

Smiling in your brother’s face is an act of charity. So is enjoining good and forbidding evil, giving directions to the lost traveler, aiding the blind and removing obstacles from the path. Hadith

“We only have what we give.”

“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.”

“Give but give until it hurts.”

“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.”

“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.”

“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”

“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.”

“Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest, good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial [of little value or importance] indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.”

“Love is wise; hatred is foolish. In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other, we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don't like. We can only live together in that way. But if we are to live together, and not die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.”

“Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.”

“Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.”