Quotes About Charity

You can't get rid of poverty by giving people money.

Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.

Billions are wasted on ineffective philanthropy. Philanthropy is decades behind business in applying rigorous thinking to the use of money.

I did a concert at five years old in the garden of one of the church members, and we raised some money to buy a new piano in our little church.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

You spend that money, and then what? At least now you know it's going to a great cause. We'll see how many masks I'll keep in the future, but certain ones have more meaning, so I'll hold onto them.

I give money to Unicef because I like the 'bang for your buck' aspect. Here's $10, go and save 1,000 kids from blindness!

If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better.

I don't want to make money; I want to make a difference.

The best way to help the poor is not to become one of them

Have fun do good and the money will come

What's a soup kitchen?

I'm a sucker for giving people money on the street. I don't know if it's a good or a bad thing, but I can't help myself.

I think that my foundation uses the money better than the government does. In any event, I do pay taxes.

If you can't send money, send tobacco.

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?

I know the game wasn't a classic, but the night was about more than that-it was about bringing back the memories and raising money for former heroes who have now fallen on hard times.

If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

Never say never. For the right reason, over the years I've been auctioning off masks for charity and it's always for a good cause. I think you would regret it if you just sold it for money.

A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.

Let us not make the poor our friends by our alms, not our enemies by our scorns. We had better have the ears of God full of their prayers, than heaps of money in our own coffers with their curses.

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.