Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it
John D. Rockefeller
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.
Charles Dickens
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.
John D. Rockefeller
Every good deed is charity whether you come to your brother's assistance or just greet him with a smile.
Muhammad
Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
Edward Abbey
If the world is to be improved it must be by the exercise of individual charity.
Anthony Burgess
To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
Bodhidharma
Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.
Lawrence G. Lovasik
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
Peter Marshall
The best kind of charity is to help those who are willing to help themselves.
Phineas Taylor Barnum
Do not feel ashamed if the amount of charity is small because to refuse the needy is an act of greater shame.
Ali bin Abu-Talib
In charity there is no excess.
Francis Bacon