Quotes About Charity

The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.

There are eight levels of charity.... The highest is when you strengthen a man's hand until he need no longer be dependent upon others.

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

When I started this run, I said that if we all gave one dollar, we'd have $22 million for cancer research, and I don't care man, there's no reason that isn't possible. No reason!

The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.

Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men but from doing something worthwhile.

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.

The only worthwhile achievements of man are those which are socially useful.

Amid life's quests, there seems but worthy one: to do men good.

My especial object is to help the poor; the rich can help themselves. I believe in self-made men.

A man should make all he can, and give all he can.

The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.

Man's value before God is estimated by the dispositions of his heart, its uprightness, its good will, its charity, and not by keenness of intellect or extent of knowledge.

A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.

The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.

The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind.

The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.

There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.

It was a kind of eleemosynary institution

extravagant generosity with other people's money.