65 Charity Quotes Encouraging Joyful Giving

"The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful than a thousand heads bowing in prayer."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Compassion is the root of charity."
- Lailah Gifty Akita

"Charity is a supreme virtue and the great channel through which the mercy of God is passed on to mankind. It is the virtue that unites men and inspires their noblest efforts."
- Conrad Hilton

"The greatness of a community is most accurately measured by the compassionate actions of its members."
- Coretta Scott King

"The smallest act of kindness is worth more than the grandest intention."
- Oscar Wilde

"Darkness cannot drive out darkness: Only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: Only love can do that."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment , or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."
- Leo Buscaglia

"You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."
- John Bunyan

"Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
- Former President Barack Obama

"Wealth isn't always measured in dollar signs. We each have time, talent, and creativity, all of which can be powerful forces for positive change. Share your blessings in whatever form they come and to whatever level you have been blessed."
- Jon M. Huntsman

"There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up."
- John Holmes

"Giving is not just about making a donation. It is about making a difference."
- Kathy Calvin

"Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance."
- Francis of Assisi

"I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility."
- Megan Rapinoe

"Globalization in its current form cannot deliver the benefits expected of it. Civil society, particularly in developing countries, must ensure that it does."
- Martin Khor

"The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward."
- Carol Ryrie Brink

"A good person can make another person good; it means that goodness will elicit goodness in the society; other persons will also be good."
- Bhumibol Adulyadej

"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."
- Eleanor Roosevelt

"Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more."
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

"The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own."
- Lao Tzu

"I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."
- Maya Angelou

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
- Winston Churchill

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change the world: indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
- Margaret Mead

"The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service"
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Love cannot remain by itself—it has no meaning. Love has to be put into action and that action is service."
- Mother Teresa

"Charity must become a fundamental state of mind and heart that guides us in all we do."
- Joseph B. Wirthlin

"Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."
- Martin Luther King Jr.

"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."
- Chinua Achebe

"Individual commitment to a group effort - that is what makes a team work, a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
- Vince Lombardi

"As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

"It is every man's obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it."
- Albert Einstein

"Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows."
- Moliere

"If you're in the luckiest one percent of humanity, you owe it to the rest of humanity to think about the other 99 percent."
- Warren Buffett

"The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves."
- Helen Keller

"The work of volunteers impacts all our lives, even if we are not aware of it."
- Anthony Worrall-Thompson

"I believe I have a personal responsibility to make a positive impact on society."
- Anthony Fauci

"Charity is a fine thing if it's meeting a gap where needs must be met and there are no other resources. But in the long term we need to support people into helping themselves."
- Annie Lennox

"We need a strong civil society where the connection between different people and groups is firm and vibrant, not brittle and divided."
- Stanley A. McChrystal

"The power of youth is the common wealth for the entire world. The faces of young people are the faces of our past, our present and our future. No segment in the society can match with the power, idealism, enthusiasm and courage of the young people."
- Kailash Satyarthi

"One of the marvelous things about community is that it enables us to welcome and help people in a way we couldn’t as individuals. When we pool our strength and share the work and responsibility, we can welcome many people, even those in deep distress, and perhaps help them find self-confidence and inner healing."
- Jean Vanier

"In an age where community involvement and partnerships with civil society are increasingly being recognized as indispensable, there is clearly a growing potential for cooperative development and renewal worldwide."
- Kofi Annan

"As a society, we must not allow human rights abuses to go unnoticed and undocumented; it is a vital mission to fight ignorance of these tragic events."
- Andy Dunn

"Human rights stand upon a common basis; and by all reason that they are supported, maintained, and defended for all the human family. The essential characteristics of humanity are everywhere the same."
- Frederick Douglass

"If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society."
- Joni Eareckson Tada

"Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another."
- Gilbert K. Chesterton

"I know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them, but inform their discretion."
- Thomas Jefferson

"Humanitarian response, sustainable development, and sustaining peace are three sides of the same triangle."
- Antonio Guterres

"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
- Mahatma Gandhi

"Charity and love are the same — with charity you give love, so don’t just give money but reach out your hand instead."
- Mother Teresa

"If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else."
- Confucius

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’"
- Martin Luther King Jr. ‍

"Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth."
- Mohammed Ali

"Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead."
- St. Thomas Aquinas

"Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you."
- Princess Diana

"The best things to do with the best things in life is to give them away."
- Dorothy Day ‍

"The most precious thing I have to give is my time."
- Silvia Hartmann

"Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others."
- Plato

"No one has ever become poor from giving."
- Anne Frank

"It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving."
- Mother Teresa

"To ease another's heartache is to forget one's own."
- Abraham Lincoln

"No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted."
- Aesop

"If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one."
- Mother Theresa

"No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of another."
- Charles Dickens

"Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does."
- William James

"Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction."
- Emmanuel Swedenborg