Charitable Quotes

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher

Act, Heaven, Toward

For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
Francis Bacon

Men, Leave, Next

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
Joseph Addison

Lost, Words, Cannot

What charitable 1 percenters can't do is assume responsibility - America's national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
Stephen King

Education, War, Care

Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
Billy Joel

Music, Time, Give

Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
Joseph Joubert

Everyone, Thyself, Indulge

Americans also don't need to be taught how to give. We don't need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.
Glenn Beck

Care, Give, Taught

As a member of the Mormon church, Romney is instructed to tithe 10 percent of his income. That's in keeping with most charitable giving: Religious institutions get about one-third of all contributions, according to 'The American' magazine.
John Podhoretz

Giving, American, Religious

The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.
Brandy Norwood

Work, Good, Great

Governments of rich countries spend some $6bn of tax money a year on disaster relief and development aid overseas, while each new earthquake, famine or tidal wave can attract 1,000 aid organisations, from the United Nations Children's Fund and Oxfam to the 'Jesus Brigades' of the American south and other charitable adventurers.
James Buchan

Money, Children, Jesus

Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.
David Rockefeller

Nature, Giving, Rather

My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.
Chuck Grassley

Business, True, Integrity

Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.
Paul Samuelson

United, Logic, Works

Be charitable before wealth makes you covetous.
Thomas Browne

Before, Makes, Wealth

In my ideal world, no child would suffer. Charitable instincts would prevail. There would be global acceptance of all different types of people.
Clay Aiken

Acceptance, Different, Child

I've long wanted to find a charitable cause to really get involved with and be passionate about. I get invited to a lot of charity events to sing, and I am happy to help and bring a source of entertainment, but I'm sort of disconnected from them.
Katharine McPhee

Happy, Help, Long

I really enjoy being able to spend my time doing different charitable and philanthropic activities.
Jennie Garth

Time, Different, Enjoy

The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations.
Melissa Bean

Social, Security, Name

Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.
Asa Gray

Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
Isaac Barrow

Hope, Design, Bad

I like what I'm doing. Today at 88, I wouldn't think of quitting because I can't think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I'm doing matters.
Art Linkletter

Today, Else, Rather

I'm forming a charitable institution for education.
Amar Bose

Education, Forming

There's the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we're extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.
Mitchell Baker

Life, Made, Grateful

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
Charles Williams

Wish, Quite, Encourage

September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.
Lamar Alexander

Best, Country, Days

I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.
Jason Derulo

Mom, Heart, Woman

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.
Thomas Peterffy

School, America, Teach

For our welfare reform efforts to be successful, we must empower local charitable organizations with the resources to address their local community needs.
Mel Carnahan

Successful, Community, Needs

Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don't want.
Myrtle Reed

Give, Old, Away

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