Quotes about charity
103 quotes from 72 people
The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910What Is To Be Done? (1886) Chap. XL, as translated in The Novels and Other Works of Lyof N. Tolstoï (1902) edited by Nathan Haskell Dole, p. 281To be good and lead a good life means to give to others more than one takes from them.
Leo Tolstoy1828–1910The First Step (1892), Ch. VIIIf you cannot lift the load off another’s back, do not walk away. Try to lighten it.
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
?UnattributedOften credited to Winston Churchill
Gore Vidal1925–2012Screening History (1992), Ch. 1: The Prince and the Pauper, p. 24
Swami Vivekananda1863–1902“Our Duty to the Masses”, letter to the Maharaja of Mysore (23 June 1894), Complete Works, vol. 4Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.
John Wesley1703–1791Sermon 50 “The Use of Money” in The Works of the Reverend John Wesley, A.M. (1840) edited by John Emory, Vol. I, p. 446
Oscar Wilde1854–1900The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
Mary Wollstonecraft1759–1797A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), Ch. 4
