Charity work is all about helping those in need and supporting good causes.
It’s about doing kind things, volunteering, giving donations, and speaking up for others, especially for those who are less fortunate or facing tough times.
When people do charity work, they not only make a positive impact on others’ lives but also strengthen the sense of community and togetherness.
It’s a way to work towards fairness and equality in society.
We’ve put together a bunch of great quotes about charity work for you to enjoy and share with your friends and family.
Charity Work Quotes
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. ~ Francis of Assisi.
Good will come to those who are generous and lend freely, who conduct their affairs with justice. ~ Psalm 112:5, ‘The Holy Bible’
The charity that is a trifle to us can be precious to others. ~ Homer.
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. ~ Simone De Beauvoir.
The greatest sin is to do nothing because you can only do a little. ~ Edmund Burke.
Charity is…a universal remedy against discord. And a holy cement for mankind. ~ William Penn.
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He who waits to a great deal of good at once will never do anything. ~ Samuel Johnson
Is there any real purpose in being alive if all we are going to do is get up every day and only live for ourselves? Live your life to help others. Give and live selflessly. ~ Joyce Meyer
Charity and treating begin at home. ~ John Fletcher.
Be the change you want to see in the world. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Part of being a person is about helping others. ~ Regis Murayi
No one has ever become poor by giving. ~ Anne Frank
As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled. ~ Victor Hugo
Everyone can be great because everyone can serve. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Best Charity Work Quotes
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ~ Winston Churchill.
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. ~ Charles Dickens.
A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen. ~ Mahatma Gandhi.
Hope is the mainspring of human action; faith seals our lease of immortality; and charity and love give the passport to the soul’s true and lasting happiness. ~ Alfred Billings Street.
Masonry aims at the promotion of morality and higher living by the cultivation of the social side of man, the rousing in him of the instincts of charity and love of his kind. It rests surely on the foundation of the brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God. ~ William Howard Taft
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go. ~ Mother Teresa
If we want to be a person of integrity, we act as if we have integrity and we will be a person of integrity. If we want to be a person of charity and love, we act as if we have that characteristic and we will be that person. The Savior alluded to this principle when he asked, ‘What manner of men ought ye to be?’ Verily I say unto you, even as I am.’ We should strive to become like him by acting as he would act. ~ Royden G. Derrick
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. ~ John Wesley
More and more I come to value charity and love of one’s fellow being above everything else…All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal. ~ Albert Einstein
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful, and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing room. ~ Friedrich Nietzche
Doing nothing for others is the undoing of ourselves. ~ Horace Mann
My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share and that no one starves while I eat. ~ Leo Tolstoy
Whatever a man has in superabundance is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their for their sustenance. ~ Tomas Aquinas
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
What’s important for my daughter to know is that…if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty, to make sure other people have those opportunities as well. ~ Kamala Harris
As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity. ~ Chanakya.
Quotes about Charity Work
In today’s Republican Party, there’s a term for people who hate charity and love killing: ‘Christian.’ ~ Bill Maher
What do we live for, if not to make lives less difficult for each other? ~ George Eliot
Spread love everywhere you go. Let no one ever come to you without leaving happier. ~ Mother Teresa
When death strikes down the innocent and young, for every fragile form from which he lets the panting spirit free, a hundred virtues rise, in shapes of mercy, charity, and love, to walk the world and bless it. Of every tear that sorrowing mortals shed on such green graves, some good is born, some gentler nature comes. ~ Charles Dickens
I clear my wardrobe of anything I’m not wearing and give the clothes to charity. ~ Domenico Dolce
I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Where the mind is biggest the heart, the senses, magnanimity, charity, tolerance, kindliness and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. ~ Virginia Woolf
Love is not patronizing and charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. 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
A charitable man is like an apple tree ~ he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen. ~ Austin O’ Malley
Charity should begin at home, but should not stay there. ~ Phillips Brooks
A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool. ~ Henry Fielding
God has given us two hands, one to receive and the other to give with. ~ Billy Graham
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness; it has no taste. ~ Charlotte Bronte
You have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligibly. ~ J.K.Rowling
With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right. ~ Abraham Lincoln
Whatsoever is done in charity, however small and of no reputation, it be, bringeth forth good fruit. ~ Thoman A Kempis
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. ~ George Eliot
Every good act is charity. A man’s true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows. ~ Moliere
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.
Inspiring Charity Work Quotes
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
Charity isn’t about pity, it is about love. ~ Mother Teresa
A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity. ~ Ralph Nader
Find a need and fill it. ~ Ruth Stafford Peale
Give to him who asks of you, and do not turn away from him who wants to borrow from you. ~ Matthew 5: 42, ‘The Holy Bible’
Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth. ~ Muhammad Ali
Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable. ~ Charles Caleb Colton
If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives. ~ Robert South
Each one must give as he has decided in his heart, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. ~ 2 Corinthians 9:7, ‘The Holy Bible’
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver. ~ Maya Angelou
We can’t help everyone, but everyone can help someone. ~ Ronald Reagan
Most of us love a non-self, or something extrinsic and apart from our inner life; but a mother’s love during the time she is a flesh-and-blood ciborium is not for a non-self but for one that is her very self, a perfect example of charity and love which hardly perceives a separation. Motherhood then becomes a kind of priesthood. She brings God to man by preparing the flesh in which the soul will be implanted; she brings man to God in offering the child back again to the Creator. ~ Fulton J. Sheen
The unselfish effort to bring cheer to others will be the beginning of a happier life for ourselves. ~ Helen Keller
Charity is the root of all good works. ~ Saint Augustine
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
Having leveled my palace, don’t erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home. ~ Emily Bronte
Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. this shows that we are made to live by charity. ~ C. S. Lewis.
Famous Charity Work Quotes
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can. ~ Princess Diana
Extend yourself in kindness to other human beings wherever you can. ~ Oprah Winfrey
Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society…Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are. ~ Princess Diana
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop. ~ Mother Teresa
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
It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world. ~ Mary Wollstonecraft
Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine. ~ Hosea Ballou
Charity is great but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism. ~ Swami Vivekananda
The prayers you perform, the duties you do, the charity and love you give is equal to just one drop. But if you use that one drop, continue to do your duty, and keep digging within, then the spring of Allah’s grace and His qualities will flow in abundance. ~ Muhammad Raheem Bawa Muhaiyaddeen
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. ~ Albert Camus
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
Even charity (so-called) has lent its patronage against little children. ~ Benjamin Waugh
If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. ~ Bob Hope
What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead. ~ Nelson Mandela
We can do no great things, only small things with great love. ~ Mother Teresa
The vicious count their years; virtuous, their acts ~ Samuel Johnson
All things are perceived in the light of charity and hence under the aspect of beauty; for beauty is simply reality seen with the eyes of love. ~ Evelyn Underhill
I’m a little pencil in the hand of a writing God, who is sending a love letter to the world. ~ Mother Teresa
Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed. ~ William Penn
Let us strive on to finish the work we are in. ~ Abraham Lincoln
In essentials unity, in non-essentials liberty, in all things charity and love. ~ Greg Laurie
The man who leaves money to charity in his will is only giving away what no longer belongs to him. ~ Voltaire.
Inspirational Charity Work Quotes
When justice is done, the mission of charity is finished. ~ Milan C. Edson
Charity begins at home, but should not end there. ~ Thomas Fuller
Do I need to argue to Your Honor that cruelty only breeds cruelty? That hatred only causes hatred; that if there is any way to soften this human heart which is hard enough at its best, if there is any way to kill evil and hatred and all that goes with it, it is not through evil and hatred and cruelty; it is through charity, and love, and understanding? ~ Clarence Darrow
It is more rewarding to watch money change the world than to watch it accumulate. ~ Gloria Steinem
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~ Kahlil Gibran
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. it is an act of justice. ~ Nelson Mandela
Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense. ~ Emanuel Swedenborg
Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God. ~ Hebrews 13: 16, ‘The Holy Bible’
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. ~ Jack London
The practice of charity will bind us…will bind all men in one great brotherhood. ~ Conrad Hilton
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world. ~ Anne Frank
Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart. ~ Washington Irving
It is easy to do things for our own families and loved ones, but to give of our substance for the stranger who is in need is the real test of our charity and love for our fellowmen. ~ Nathan Eldon Tanner
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
Charity: To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does. ~ Simone Weil
Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. ~ Dr. Seuss
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life. ~ Henry Ford
In advocating the case of the persons thus dispossessed, it is a right, not a charity, that I am pleading for. ~ Tomas Paine.
Thoughtful Charity Work Quotes
I have learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel. ~ Maya Angelou
In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in bondage their fellow ~ men, not knowing what they do. ~ John Quincy Adams
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. ~ Francis Quarles
But give that which is within as charity, and then all things are clean for you. ~ Luke 11: 41, ‘The Holy Bible’
Real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love – silent, long suffering and mild. ~ Lady Caroline Lamb.
Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it. ~ John D. Rockefeller.
With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds. ~ Abraham Lincoln.
All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action. ~ James Russell Lowell.
He who gives early gives twice. ~ Miguel de Cervantes.
In charity, there is no excess. ~ Francis Bacon.
Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it. ~ George Sand.
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. ~ Charles Dickens.
The living need charity more than the dead. ~ George Arnold.
Gentleness, self-sacrifice, and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. ~ Mahatma Gandhi.
True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
Charity creates a multitude of sins. ~ Oscar Wilde.
