Quotes About Charity

Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity; That I may run, rise, rest with thee.

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

I shall never again think that all tramps are drunken scoundrels, nor expect a beggar to be grateful when I give him a penny, nor be surprised if men out of work lack energy, nor subscribe to the Salvation Army, nor pawn my clothes, nor refuse a handbill, nor enjoy a meal at a smart restaurant.

Only a starving man asks bread from a begger

Even the 'right to live'...extends no further than the right to protection against murder. Charity certainly will, morality possibly may, and public utility perhaps ought to add to this protection supererogatory provision for continuance of life; but it is questionable whether strict justice demands it.

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

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.

Después del colapso de 2008, pude hacer arreglos para que casi un millón de escolares de Nueva York, cuyas familias recibían asistencia social o cupones de alimentos, recibieran un cheque por $200, sin nada a cambio.

To undo a Jew is charity, and not sin.

Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.

Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

The liberal soul shall be made fat.

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now.

Our opportunities to do good are our talents.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery.

Steal the hog, and give the feet for alms.

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them.

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

The poor will always be with you.

This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.

The poor always ye have with you.