Charity Quotes

Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.

All things are perceived in the light of charity, and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love.

Charity work is very important to me and gives me an opportunity to give back to my community. I've always been a big supporter of many different charities, have donated millions of dollars to them, and it just feels great to do and be able to help others, especially children.

There is a real diversity of talent and background on the A list so as to better reflect our society in all walks. There are people who have been candidates before, Councillors, Doctors, business leaders, charity campaigners.

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

I was raised Jewish, my wife was raised Catholic. Though we respect each other's heritage, and while many of our friends are deeply religious, we have chosen to focus on our similarities, not our differences. We teach our children compassion, charity, honesty and the benefits of hard work.

Anticipate charity by preventing poverty.

I beg people not to accept the seasonal ritual of well-timed charity on Christmas Eve. It's blasphemy.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Where we're living we have a certain amount of our profit every year it's like a percentage 5 or 7% or something like that that we set aside specifically for charity things.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

It is better for me to serve a charity as an actor or a voice, rather than at a luncheon being just a celebrity.

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

Having played an angel for so long, you can imagine that I've been asked to endorse any number of causes over the years. Obviously I have to limit my participation with any charity, so I decided to really concentrate on my love of children.

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

And so, at the age of thirty, I had successively disgraced myself with three fine institutions, each of which had made me free of its full and rich resources, had trained me with skill and patience, and had shown me nothing but forbearance and charity when I failed in trust.

A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.