Quotes About Charity

Our dream is to build a hospital in Nigeria and four other countries in Africa.

We have partnered with hospitals. We do check-ups. We talk to the parents - we educate them - and at the same time, we take the kids to other countries for operations. The goal of the foundation is to build our own cardiac hospitals in Africa, starting in Nigeria.

I want to show my children the importance of donating our time and energy to help those in need.

I would like the Hunter Foundation to outlive everything.

I always wanted to work in charitable things, community outreach, etc.

Canadians will usually give charity to those in need overseas but will ignore the people in their own backyards. It's infuriating.

There's lots of charity stuff that I can do. There are actually a million things to do here, but it would be very hard for me to stop going overseas, because I've been doing that for longer than I've been playing in the WNBA.

If you donate overseas, it's a simple matter. In mainland China, there are so many headaches.

Charity should be given to those who need it not those who want it.

Somewhere near you, somebody right now is trying to help the indigent and poor - providing food, shelter, clothing or simple kindness.

They got money for wars but can't feed the poor.

Community gardens] were oases in the urban landscape of fear, places where people could safely offer trust, helpfulness, charity, without need of an earthquake or hurricane...Community gardens are places where people rediscover not only generosity, but the pleasure of coming together. I salute all those who give their time and talents to rebuilding that sense of belonging.

A British traveler remarked, 'There are [fashions in Guatemala] which it would require more than common charity to speak of with respect...' FILL IN YOUR OWN GRIPES! ;-)

That seemed to be a feature of life in the country [Malawi]: to welcome strangers, to let them live out their fantasy of philanthropy - a school, an orphanage, a clinic, a welfare center, a malaria eradication program, or a church; and then determine if in any of this effort and expense there was a side benefit - a kickback, a bribe, an easy job, a free vehicle. If the scheme didn't work - and few of them did work - whose fault was that? Whose idea was it in the first place?

And he always checks that he carries three things with him: faith, hope, and love.

The art of giving is perfected through anonymity.

They got how many trillions of dollars in gold and silver and jewelry and art and real estate and stained glass and they're passing the basket on Sunday so they can get the tomato farmers' donation?

You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind.

In what is necessary, unity; in what is not necessary, liberty and in all things charity.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude

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But if out of every dollar given to aid, ten cents makes it to the poorest people in the world, that is ten cents more than they had before to alleviate the most abject poverty, and it might still be better than nothing.

You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me.