35 Quotes About Charitable Giving

Charitable giving is a backbone to a successful society. Having the heart to help another is what makes any people great. These quotes about charitable giving highlight these common habits and behaviors.

“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.”

“Beauty is not who you are on the outside, it is the wisdom and time you gave away to save another struggling soul like you.”

“Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.”

“Carve your name on hearts, not tombstones. A legacy is etched into the minds of others and the stories they share about you.”

“Charity begins at home, but should not end there.”

“Charity can be the outward expression of faith and hope.”

“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”

“Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.”

“Charity is willingly given from the heart.”

“Charity, if you have the means, is a personal choice, but charity which is expected or compelled is simply a polite word for slavery.”

“Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.”

“Even though it’s become a really cliched thing to see musicians working for charity, it’s still effective and it still has to be done.”

“Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.”

“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”

“If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.”

“If you don’t improve the lives of the poor, it’s not charity.”

“If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”

“If you’re in the luckiest one per cent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 per cent.”

“It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.”

“It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.”

“Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same — with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead.””

“Men lose all the material things they leave behind them in this world, but they carry with them the reward of their charity and the alms they give. For these, they will receive from the Lord the reward and recompense they deserve.”

“No one has ever become poor by giving.”

“That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”

“The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others.”

“The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.”

“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”

“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.”

“To be poor does not mean you lack the means to extend charity to another. You may lack money or food, but you have the gift of friendship to overwhelm the loneliness that grips the lives of so many.”

“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”

“Welfare distorts behavior, makes one less personally responsible and reduces the role of private charity. This principle applies to corporate welfare.”

“When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed.”

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

“While we do our good works let us not forget that the real solution lies in a world in which charity will have become unnecessary.”

“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”

There are many good reasons and benefits to embrace charitable giving and what good it can do.