There is no real religious experience that does not express itself in charity.
~ C. H. Dodd
Charity begins at home and usually stays there.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Charity begins at home but should not end there.
~ Thomas Fuller
Sow good services sweet remembrances will grow from them.
~ Madame De Stael
Charity looks at the need not at the cause.
~ German Proverb
Make the world better.
~ Lucy Stone
He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
He that has no charity deserves no mercy.
~ English Proverb
Give what you have. To someone else it may be better than you dare to think.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Discipline is a symbol of caring to a child. He needs guidance. If there is love there is no such thing as being too tough with a child.
~ Bette Davis
Even if it's a little thing do something for those who have need of help something for which you get no pay but the privilege of doing it.
~ Albert Schweitzer
Give if thou can an alms if not a sweet and gentle word.
~ Robert Herrick
Two thirds of help is to give courage.
~ Irish Proverb
It was only a sunny smile And little it cost in the giving. But like morning light it scattered the night And made the day worth living.
~ Anonymous
The principle was right there-you couldn't miss it. The more you did for your customers the more they did for us.
~ Debbi Fields
What boundary ever set limits to the service of mankind?
~ Claudian
Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.
~ Jacqueline Schiff
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can never expect too much of yourself in the matter of giving yourself to others.
~ Theodore C. Speers
Isn't it better to have men be ungrateful than to miss a chance to do good?
~ Denis Diderot
Better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than fail in assisting the unfortunate.
~ Du Coeur
Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give I give myself.
~ Walt Whitman
To be one woman truly wholly is to be all women. Tend one garden and you will birth worlds.
~ Kate Braverman
One filled with joy preaches without preaching.
~ Mother Teresa
Simply give others a bit of yourself a thoughtful act a helpful idea a word of appreciation a lift over a rough spot a sense of understanding a timely suggestion. You take something out of your mind garnished in kindness out of your heart and put it into the other fellow's mind and heart.
~ Charles H. Burr
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
When one is frank one's very presence is a compliment.
~ Marianne Moore
There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear.
~ Frank Tyger
Do not inflict your will. Just give love. The soul will take that love and put it where it can best be used.
~ Emmanuel
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
~ Kahlil Gibran
A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in ourselves.
~ Simone Weil
We are cold to others only when we are dull in ourselves.
~ William Hazlitt
As long as you keep a person down some part of you has to be down there to hold him down so it means you cannot soar as you otherwise might.
~ Marian Anderson
Cruelty is the only sin.
~ Ellen Glasgow
Violence is a symptom of impotence.
~ Anaïs Nin
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
~ A. E. Housman
Where there is no capacity to affirm another as a person in his own right there is no love. There is only masked fear.
~ Bonaro Overstreet
In real love you want the other person's good.
~ Margaret Anderson
It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.
~ Ethel Percy Andrus
One cannot make oneself but one can sometimes help a little in the making of somebody else.
~ Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
