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Quotes About Charity

I started quite young at school, compering a charity event at an old people's home. I would do stand up and impressions and enjoyed the laughter. It's very addictive. It's a lovely sensation to say something and hear a whole room laugh.
~ Armando Iannucci
I'm an honorary ambassador for Stand Up to Cancer, and I'm also associated with St. Jude's.
~ Sofia Vassilieva
The charity that I work for is the Johnson Cancer Research Foundation at UCLA. I also do work with Stand Up To Cancer.
~ Maura Tierney
It's an amazing cause, Stand Up to Cancer.
~ Scarlett Moffatt
Everybody in life is pursuing money: left, right, charity, nonprofits, everybody's pursuing money. Everybody wants a raise. Everybody wants to improve their standard of living. Everybody wants to be rich, and especially those that go to Washington.
~ Rush Limbaugh
I had the opportunity to go and read to cancer patients in hospitals and saw how something as little as that could make someone's day. I also think it's important to support people who are standing up for a good cause, so that's why I get involved with different campaigns and charities.
~ Manika
To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.
~ Wilfred Grenfell
No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Charity is a supreme virtue, and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts.
~ Conrad Hilton
A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
~ Edgar Allan Poe
It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.
~ Lyman Abbott
The practice of charity will bind us...will bind all men in one great brotherhood.
~ Conrad Hilton
If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.
~ Dante Alighieri
Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him
~ Voltaire
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others.
~ Andrew Carnegie
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.
~ Henry Fielding
Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.
~ Isaac Barrow
The gospel chargeth us with piety towards God, and justice and charity to men, and temperance and chastity in reference to ourselves.
~ John Tillotson
One can love any man that is generous.
~ Leigh Hunt