Charity Quotes And Sayings

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“Extreme poverty is one of the most pressing issues of our age. It is the source of much of the world’s suffering and makes mere survival into a struggle. Find out more about the problem we face here.
– Unknown

“God has not called us to see through each other, but to see each other through.”
– Unknown

“How far that little candle throws his beams!”
– Unknown

“I wondered why somebody didn’t do something.  Then I realized, I am somebody.”
– Unknown

“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life that no person can sincerely try to help another without helping themselves.” 
– Unknown

“Make it a rule…never to lie down at night without being able to say, “I have made one human being at least a little wiser, a little happier or a little better this day.” 
– Unknown

“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.” 
– Unknown

“Nobody can do everything, but everyone can do something.”
– Unknown

“People are often put off from giving to charity by the idea that a decrease in their wealth will make them less happy. However, there is extensive psychological research which shows that your level of income and how happy you are far less strongly related than we think, and that giving to charity actually may increase your happiness.
– Unknown

“The level of inequality between members of the world’s poorest and richest nations is startling. Many are often surprised to find out how rich they are compared to the rest of the world’s population. Use our calculator to find out how rich you really are.
– Unknown

“There are significant reasons in favor of giving to charity now rather than in the long-distance future. Giving communities a helping hand today allows them to continue to be better off in the future, increasing the social rate of return. It is also important to make a public stand, and encourage others to give.
– Unknown

“Tithing is the religious tradition of putting one’s charitable nature into practice by giving a proportion of your income to charity. Find out more about tithing and donating a proportion of your income to charity.”
– Unknown

“When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life in such a manner that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.” 
– Unknown

“Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.” 
– Walt Whitman

“Charity no sooner begins to take root in the heart, but it makes all those weaknesses vanish at once. It softens what is hard and rough; it cures that presumption and haughtiness that pretends to decide and judge of every thing; it instructs us how to doubt, and how to reflect; to be teachable and not to rely too much on our own wisdom and understanding. It destroys all manner of positiveness, and moderates the very tone of our voice; and in such persons, as are already polite and endowed with the qualities that render people lovely to the rest of mankind, it gives this charming outside a motive and an inward principle far different from self-love.”
– Wellins Calcott

“Nothing contributes more to make men polite and civilized, than true and genuine Charity.”
– Wellins Calcott

“Real joy comes not from ease or riches or from the praise of men, but from doing something worthwhile.”
– Wilfred Grenfell

“Act as if what you do makes a difference.  It does.”
– William James

“Charity is … a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.”
– William Penn

“I expect to pass through life but once.  If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.”
– William Penn

“Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.”
– William Penn

“As the furnace purifies the silver, so does charity rid wealth of its dross.”
– William Scott Downey

“So shines a good deed in a naughty world.”
– William Shakespeare

“We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.”
– Winston Churchill

“What is the use of living, if it not be to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?”
– Winston Churchill

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