Give, but give until it hurts. – Mother Teresa
While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
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.
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Not he who has much is rich but he who gives much. – Mahatma Gandhi
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
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows. – Moliere
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.
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
The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members. – Doris Buffet
Helping people in need is a good and essential part of my life, a kind of destiny. – Princess Diana
To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better.
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. – Homer
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
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. – Madame Curie
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does. – William James
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
Wealth is not to feed our egos, but to feed the hungry and to help people help themselves.
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.
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