Quotes on Helping and Charity
Opinionated quotations from the famous and not-so-famous.

Don't expect gratitude and you won't be disappointed. Do things because it is the right thing to do and in doing so you feel your heart swell up with love for your fellow man.

Chris Morgan

A good deed becomes tainted when you expect something in return.

Duane Alan Hahn

It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

Napoleon Hill

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.

Jonathan Swift

The best way to keep good acts in memory is to refresh them with new.

Cato

It is better to give than to lend, and it costs about the same.

Sir Philip Gibbs

The money you make will only serve you as well as you serve others.

Duane Alan Hahn

Give help rather than advice.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.

Samuel Johnson

Save a drowning man today and teach him how to swim tomorrow.

Duane Alan Hahn

Never look down on anybody unless you are helping them up.

Jesse Jackson

Give a man a fish before you teach him how to fish or he may starve before he learns.

Duane Alan Hahn

We can't help everyone, but everyone can help someone.

Dr. Loretta Scott

Everything you do, do out of sincerity, or the benefit of the action is lost.

God from Conversations with God (Book 3) through Neale Donald Walsch

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

John D. Rockefeller

Are your fellow humans enlarged or reduced as a result of your help? Have you made them bigger or smaller? More able or less able?

God from Conversations with God (Book 1) through Neale Donald Walsch

We do not quite forgive a giver. The hand that feeds us is in some danger of being bitten.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

The proverb warns ''Don't bite the hand that feeds you.'' But maybe you should, if it prevents you from feeding yourself.

Thomas Szasz

The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

Unknown

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn.

Miguel De Cervantes

Give a beggar a dime and he'll bless you. Give him a dollar and he'll curse you for withholding the rest of your fortune. Poverty is a bag with a hole at the bottom.

Anzia Yezierska

Help a man against his will and you do the same as murder him.

Horace

Do not free a camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Help me Martha, mother of meatloaf!

Duane Alan Hahn

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