(486 quotes found)
“The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.”
Benjamin Franklin
“In charity there is no excess.”
Francis Bacon Sr.
“Do more than belong: participate. Do more than care: help. Do more than believe: practice. Do more than be fair: be kind. Do more than forgive: forget. Do more than dream: work.”
William Arthur Ward
“While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all”
Oscar Wilde
“Christmas gift suggestions:To your enemy, forgiveness.To an opponent, tolerance.To a friend, your heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To yourself, respect.”
Oren Arnold
“What do you call love, hate, charity, revenge, humanity, magnanimity, forgiveness? Different results of the one master impulse: the necessity of securing one's self-approval”
Mark Twain
“He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.”
Confucius
“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”
George Sand
“True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense”
Emanuel Swedenborg
“The worst of charity is that the lives you are asked to preserve are not worth preserving”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
