Quotes About Charity

I would like to employ more people but I don't want to empower my charities at the cost of exploiting people or doing things that are not useful, so I'm working on that.

Young people, when they're left alone, always want to have compassion, and they always want to give. They always want to help people who are less fortunate.

When people make donations to non profits, they want to know that their money goes to good use.

I'm supporting the charities that I supported during my lifetime, and I want to continue to do that.

The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.

One thing that I love about World Vision is every place they go, they go in with an exit plan, they don't want people dependent on them.

When you talk about a million bucks, if you think about it very carefully, it's not that much money, if you start to divide it. You have to figure out a philosophy as to whom you want to give it to.

It's important to give back to the community. I want to make a difference in the world!

I am hoping to be able to lend my support to a Sickle Cell charity in the near future, as I want to try and help raise money and awareness about this disease.

I feel like what I'm best at is being a musician and a performer. I want to use that to help people who are good at starting nonprofits.

I know what happened to my foundation, from raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people. Do we want to take that away? I don't think anybody says yes.

I did plenty of crazy stuff, but I did a lot of charity stuff. You can't stop. You want to continue to taste, and sometimes that's crazy, stupid things.

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.

I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people.

No matter what projects I'm taking on, I want to (do) things to help other people.

I have always been interested in giving back, and I wouldn't want to know a life without giving.

War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.

There's a lot of money in wars, except in the war on poverty. Can't make any bread helping the poor.

35 million people in the U.S. are hungry or don't know where their next meal is coming from, and 13 million of them are children. If another country were doing this to our children, we'd be at war.

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

There's a big Alzheimer's benefit in a couple of weeks. A charity ball is right after that. We eat, we smile, we pose. No balls. None. I'm sorry to hear that. Have you talked to a doctor?

magnanimousness.

What he doesn't realize is I've been taking charity every time I let Travis buy me lunch, every time Retha and her mom bring us food. No—he doesn't ask for charity. He gets to keep his pride, leaving me to sacrifice mine instead.