Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry David Thoreau

Objects of charity are not guests.

Henry David Thoreau

You must have a genius for charity as well as for anything else.

Jacqueline Novogratz

I have seen that traditional approaches to charity and aid don't solve problems of poverty. In fact, too often they create dependence.

Fulton J. Sheen

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

Franklin Pierce

I cannot find any authority in the Constitution for public charity.

Evita Peron

Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

Gisele Bundchen

I'm very interested in charities. I help a lot of different charities.

Hugh Blair

Nothing leads more directly to the breach of charity, and to the injury and molestation of our fellow-creatures, than the indulgence of an ill temper.

Hosea Ballou

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

Friedrich Nietzsche

That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end.

Frederick William Robertson

Earth has not a spectacle more glorious or more fair to show than this love tolerating intolerance; charity covering, as with a vail, even the sin of the lack of charity.

George Soros

If every rich person gave 50 percent of their wealth to charity, I would not say they should pay more taxes.

Garth Nix

Charity is a very labour-intensive virtue.

Francis Quarles

The place of charity, like that of God, is everywhere.

Francis Atterbury

The smallest act of charity shall stand us in great stead.

Sometimes you get to designate the charity; sometimes you donate them to the program and they decide which charity gets the miles.

Ferguson Jenkins

Nobody on my staff is on salary. The money goes straight to the charities.

That first year, we decided we wanted to have a tournament to promote fellowship in the oil field. We thought it would be a good idea to pick a charity and give back to the community.

Robert Thompson

It sounds so cruel but some of these telethons - even though you're doing it completely for charity - are very important gigs for your career,

Joe Sakic

It's my charity tournament, we're helping to feed hungry kids so that takes precedent over everything.

Eventually we'd like this to be the largest motorcycle run for charity.

It's a nice event, held in a nice place. Not only do you get to mingle will all the people who are donating to the charity, but you get to talk to the other restaurateurs.

Its doors are open to everyone, all free, no questions asked. I wanted to give to a charity that makes a difference.

That's one of the things that they teach in the Bible, we're supposed to go over there and give charity work, and that's one of things I really wanted to do.

It's something different that I've never done before. Spending this much time on a project is tedious at some points, but it's also really exciting to me. And then there's the charity work we'll be doing. All of that drew me to it and made me want to be part of it.

Chanakya

A woman does not become holy by offering by charity, by observing hundreds of fasts, or by sipping sacred water, as by sipping the water used to wash her husbands feet.

Everyone's having a good time ? it's for charity. But the firemen are probably a little upset right now.

Eva LaRue

Charity should always be a constant.

Mohsin Hamid

One ought not to encourage beggars, and yes, you are right, it is far better to donate to charities that address the causes of poverty rather than to him, a creature who is merely its symptom.

Even a smile can be charity.

Foundations exist to help charities, to help those in need. And Mr. Trump has been incredibly generous throughout his career.