There is no good in extravagance, however, there can never be extravagance in good deeds.
– Prophet Mohammad
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
– Kahlil Gibran
We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.
– Mother Teresa
Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.
– Clarence Jordan
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work we are in.
– Abraham Lincoln
The willingness to share does not make one charitable; it makes one free.
– Robert Brault
The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems
– Mahatma Gandhi
Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
– Washington Irving
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
– Muhammad Ali
If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
– Bob Hope
Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for humanity.
– Horace Mann
We only have what we give.
– Isabel Allende
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
In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.
– Philipp Melanchthon
The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
– Mahatma Gandhi
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
– Mother Teresa
Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time, and always start with the person nearest you.
– Mother Teresa
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has.
– Margaret Mead
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
He who wished to secure the good of others,
Has already secured his own.
– Confucius
I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.
– Virgil
It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
– Mother Teresa
Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
– Dalai Lama
Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.
– Elizabeth Andrew
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
It’s good to be blessed. It’s better to be a blessing.
Dare to reach out your hand into the darkness, to pull another hand into the light.
– Norman B. Rice
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
– George Eliot
As one person I cannot change the world,
But I can change the world of one person.
– Paul Shane Spear
If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.
– Lucy Larcom
I would rather have it said, ‘He lived usefully,’ than, ‘He died rich.’
An attitude of gratitude creates blessings. Help yourself by helping others. You have the most powerful weapons on earth – love and prayer.
– Mother Teresa
Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone’s day.
Pity the sorrows of a poor man, whose trembling limbs have borne him to your door.
The best way to find yourself
Is to lose yourself in the service of others.
– Mahatma Gandhi
An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.
– Mrs. Lydia Maria Child
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But if that drop was not in the ocean, I think the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. I do not agree with the big way of doing things.
– Mother Teresa (1910-1997) Albanian-born missionary.
Wealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
– John Bunyan
Think of giving not only as a duty but as a privilege.
– Eleanor Roosevelt
A man’s true wealth is the good he does in this world.
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 your verb agree to serve…. You don’t have to know the second theory of thermodynamics in physics to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.
– Martin Luther King Jr.
The bread in your cupboard belongs to the hungry man; the coat hanging unused in your closet belongs to the man who needs it; the shoes rotting in your closet belong to the man who has none; the money which you hoard in the bank belongs to the poor. You do wrong to everyone you could help, but fail to help.
– St. Basil the Great
That’s why charity work is very selfish at the same time, because it makes you feel good.
– Maria Menounos
Charity sees the need, not the cause
– German Proverb
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could only do a little.
– Edmund Burke
Being a man or a woman is a matter of birth. Being a man or a woman who makes a difference is a matter of choice.
– Byron Garrett
Sometime in your life, hope that you might see one starved man, the look on his face when the bread finally arrives. Hope that you might have baked it or bought or even kneaded it yourself. For that look on his face, for your meeting his eyes across a piece of bread, you might be willing to lose a lot, or suffer a lot, or die a little, even.
– Daniel Berrigan
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Love the earth and sun and animals,
Despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks,
Stand up for the stupid and crazy,
Devote your income and labor to others…
And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
– Walt Whitman
You may never know what results come of your action,
But if you do nothing there will be no result.
– Mahatma Gandhi
While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
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
You cannot hope to build a better world without improving individuals. We all must work for our own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity.
– Marie Curie
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.
– Marian Wright Edelman
No one has ever become poor by giving.
– Anne Frank
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.
– Buddha
Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.
– Plato
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
– Charles Dickens
I don’t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
– Sir Walter Scott
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 (1709-1784) British author.
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
– Jane Addams
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.
– Anne Frank
It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.
– Tom Brokaw
Deeds of the giving are the very foundations of the world.
One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.
– Aristotle
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
– William James
Generosity consists not the sum given,
But the manner in which it is bestowed.
– Mahatma Gandhi
The race of mankind would perish did they cease to aid each other. We cannot exist without mutual help. All, therefore, that need aid have a right to ask it from their fellow men; and no one who has the power of granting can refuse it without guilt.
– Seneca
Being good is commendable, but only when it is combined with doing good is it useful.
I wondered why somebody didn’t do something. Then I realized, I am somebody.
Find a need and fill it.
– Ruth Stafford Peale
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
– Karl Reiland
I’ve learned that you shouldn’t go through life with a catchers mitt on both hands. You need to be able to throw something back.
– Maya Angelou
I’ve always respected those who tried to change the world for the better, rather than just complain about it.
– Michael Bloomberg
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
– Erich Fromm (1900-1980) Psychoanalyst and social philosopher.
When you dig another out of their troubles, you find a place to bury your own.
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
– Laurence Leamer
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.
– Moliere
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
– Maya Angelou
When you open your heart to giving, angels fly to your door.
Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
– Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) English author.
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
Being myself no stranger to suffering, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.
– Booker T. Washington
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen that is the common right of humanity.
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.
– Albert Pike
No joy can equal the joy of serving others.
– Sai Baba
Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.
– Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682) English author.
With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work; we are in.
– Abraham Lincoln
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.
– Victor Hugo (1802-1885) French poet, dramatist and novelist.
When faith and hope fail, as they do sometimes, we must try charity, which is love in action. We must speculate no more on our duty, but simply do it. When we have done it, however blindly, perhaps Heaven will show us why.
Find out how much God has given you and from it take what you need; the remainder is needed by others.
– Saint Augustine
A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
– Seneca
Tis not enough to help the feeble up but to support him after.
– George Bernard Shaw
He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.
– John Templeton
Not only must we be good, but we must also be good for something.
– Henry David Thoreau
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.
– Homer
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
How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!
– George Elliston
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.
The faith must express itself in charity and in solidarity, which is the civil form of charity.
– Claudio Hummes
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.
On that best portion of a good man’s life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
The Reverend Mae “Mother” Wyatt
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
– Saint Augustine (354-430) Theologian.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
– Thomas Carlyle
It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.
– D. Elton Trueblood
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning.
– Mitch Albom
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
And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.
– William Penn
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can.
It’s not that successful people are givers; it is that givers are successful people.
– Patti Thor
Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.
– Henry Ward Beecher (1813-1887) American politician.
Having leveled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
– Emily Bronte (1818-1848) British novelist and poet.
The Lord loveth a cheerful giver. He also accepteth from a grouch.
– Catherine Hall
The purpose of life is not to be happy – but to matter, to be productive, to be useful, to have it make some difference that you have lived at all.
– Leo Rosten
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.
– Doris Buffet
Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.
– Helen Keller
To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.
– Horace Mann (1796-1859) U.S. educator.
May your charity increase as much as your wealth.
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
Is the rich world aware of how the four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we’d want to get involved.
As I give, I get.
– Margaret Mead
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
– John D. Rockefeller
We are, after all, only trustees of the wealth we possess. Without the community and its resources… there would be little wealth for anyone.
– Albert Schweitzer
Seek always to do some good, somewhere. Everyman has to seek in his own way to realize his true worth. You must give some time to your fellow man. Even if it’s a little thing, do something for those who need help, something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it. For remember, you don’t live in a world all your own. Your brothers are here too.
– Albert Schweitzer
Whatever we give to the wretched, we lend to fortune.
– Seneca
To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better.
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
– Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Irish-born English satirist.
Each of us can only do the best we can for as many as we can and that will never be good enough for those of us who care!
– Rea Cord
Make it a rule… never to lie down at night without being able to say, “I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier or a little better this day.”
– Charles Kingsley
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
– St. Francis of Assisi
I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able to help.
– Maya Angelou
Do good with what thou hast, or it will do thee no good.
– Anthony Robbins
I choose to rise up out of that storm and see that in moments of desperation, fear, and helplessness, each of us can be a rainbow of hope, doing what we can to extend ourselves in kindness and grace to one another. And I know for sure that there is no them – there’s only us.
– Oprah Winfrey
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it.
– James Baldwin
We’re only here for a small amount of time and we want to see how much good we can do while we’re here and I always say that there’ll be… in the future, there would be many millionaires and they can take care of those problems but I’m here now and I’m trying to do what I can.
– Warren Buffett
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
– Madame Curie
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts.
– Conrad Hilton
To laugh often and to love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest critics and to endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of oneself; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived – this is to have succeeded.
– Sir Henry Taylor
Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.
– Nicholas Berdyaev
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.
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.
– William Shakespeare
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
– Samuel Johnson
If you give money, spend yourself with it.
– Henry David Thoreau
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other?
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you haven’t any charity in your heart,
You have the worst kind of heart trouble.
– Bob Hope
When it comes to charity; many people stop at nothing…….
– Anon
I was trained from the beginning to work, to save. I have always regarded it a as a religious duty to get all I could honorably and to give all I could.
– John D. Rockefeller
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community. And as long as I live, it is 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 live. Life is no brief candle to me; it is a sort of splendid torch, which I have got hold of for a short moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to the future generations.
– George Soros
It’s not just about being able to write a check. It’s being able to touch somebody’s life.
– William Wordsworth
The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
– Ralph Nader
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
– Emanuel Swedenborg
Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny.
– Princess Diana
It is from the overflow of our cup that we give off our best to others.
– Adiela Akoo
To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
– Henry David Thoreau
There is no cause half so sacred as the cause of the people. There is no idea so uplifting as the idea of the service of humanity.
– Oprah Winfrey
Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.
– Lawrence G. Lovasik
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.
Pray for the dead. And fight like hell for the living!
– Mother Jones
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
As I started getting rich, I started thinking, ‘what the hell am I going to do with all this money?’… You have to learn to give.
– Ted Turner
Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.
– William Wordsworth
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.
– Hosea Ballou
Give, but give until it hurts.
– Mother Teresa
Not what I have but what I do is my kingdom.
– Andrew Carnegie
Not he who has much is rich but he who gives much.
– Mahatma Gandhi
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
– Henry Fielding
When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.
– Maya Angelo
We make a living by what we get,
But we make a life by what we give.
– Winston Churchill
Life is a gift, and it offers us the privilege, opportunity, and responsibility to give something back by becoming more.
– John D. Rockefeller
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have too much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
– Theodore Roosevelt
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
– John Ruskin
Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have.
– Christopher Morley
Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.
– Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) American editor, publisher, and author of the mora
In charity there is no excess.
– Francis Bacon (1561-1626) British statesman and philosopher.
Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, would not have contributed.
– Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) British clergyman, sportsman and author.
The beginning and almost the end of all good law is that everyone shall work for their bread and receive good bread for their work.
– John Ruskin (1819-1900) English art critic.
Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.
– Simone Weil (1910-1943) French Philosopher
Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.
– C.S. Lewis
Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.
– Swami Vivekananda
If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.
Wherever a man turns he can find someone who needs him.
– Albert Schweitzer
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves.
– Horace Mann
The wealthier I get, the more money I will have to not have, because my goal in getting is giving, and nothing is better than charity.
– Jarod Kintz
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
– Diana, Princess of Wales
…the most useful and influential people in [America] are those who take the deepest interest in institutions that exist for the purpose of making the world better.
– Woodrow Wilson
If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time, because a dose of joy is a spiritual cure.
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer
In giving you are throwing a bridge across the chasm of your solitude.
– Antoine de Saint
Act always from a sense of common humanity, and let God judge if it be charity.
– Robert Brault
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.
– Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) British clergyman, sportsman and author.
In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
– Anne Baxter
The highest use of capital is not to make more money but to make money to do more for the betterment of life.
– Anne Frank
Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
– William Shakespeare
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts.
– Samuel Johnson
It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.
– Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British politician.
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
– Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) Irish poet and dramatist.
Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.
– Jacques Bossuet
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
– Virginia Woolf
No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy.
– Knights of Pythagoras
Give no bounties: make equal laws: secure life and prosperity and you need not give alms.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
– Apostle Paul, I Corinthians 13:13
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
– Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist.
The ‘Third World’ is a term I don’t like very much, because we’re all one world. I want people to know that the largest part of humanity is suffering.
– Audrey Hepburn
It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little – do what you can.
– Sydney Smith
Unity in things Necessary, Liberty in things Unnecessary, and Charity in all.
– Richard Baxter
Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am very driven. I work really hard, whether it’s acting or my charity or even poker. When I focus on something I give it my all.
– Shannon Elizabeth
The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.
– Sargent Shriver
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.
My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It’s their work that I’m supporting. So it’s not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.
– Benedict Baruch Spinoza
He who has conferred a benefit on anyone from motives of love or honor will feel pain, if he sees that the benefit is received without gratitude.
– Bessie A. Stanley
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.
– Alexis de Tocqueville
To give requires good sense.
– Ovid (BC 43-AD 18) Roman poet.
Look around the habitable world: how few know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
– Juvenal
I’m not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I’m doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.
– George Soros
A man who sees another man on the street corner with only a stump for an arm will be so shocked the first time he’ll give him sixpence. But the second time it’ll only be a three penny bit. And if he sees him a third time, he’ll have him cold-bloodedly handed over to the police.
– Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) German writer.
The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?
– Jean de la Bruyere (1645-1696) French satiric moralist.
Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.
– Dr. Seuss