Quotes about charity
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
Abigail Van Buren
People that pay for things never complain. It's the guy you give something to that you can't please.
Will Rogers
You can't always be sure when you try to help somebody that you are really helping. But I'd rather help somebody who didn't need it than not help somebody who did need it.
James Pickering
If you own something you cannot give away, then you don’t own it, it owns you.
Albert Schweitzer
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
John Andrew Holmes
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
Mark Twain
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Albert Camus
The best service we can do for the needy and the unfortunate is to help them in such manner that their self-respect, their ability to help themselves, shall not be injured but augmented.
Calvin Coolidge
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself.
Calvin Coolidge
There are people in need of help. Charity is one of the nobler human motivations. The act of reaching into one's own pockets to help a fellow man in need is praiseworthy and laudable. Reaching into someone else's pocket is despicable and worthy of condemnation.
Walter E. Williams
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