Words matter. These are the best Charitable Quotes from famous people such as P. J. O’Rourke, Cenk Uygur, Myrtle Reed, Masai Ujiri, Billy Joel, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
There is no virtue in compulsory government charity, and there is no virtue in advocating it. A politician who portrays himself as ‘caring’ and ‘sensitive’ because he wants to expand the government’s charitable programs is merely saying that he’s willing to try to do good with other people’s money.
Even the most ardent Obama supporter can’t, in good conscience or sound mental state, argue that President Obama has changed the way Washington works. He’s just played the game a little better, if you’re being charitable on how you keep score on that count.
Lots of people think they’re charitable if they give away their old clothes and things they don’t want.
People hear ‘Africa’ and they think about charitable commercials, or safari tours and animals. It’s our responsibility to help change that perspective.
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can give our time to is the creation and performance of music itself.
The idea of kids helping other kids is such a great way to introduce children to being involved in charitable causes and volunteer work, setting them on the path to doing good for others throughout their lives.
Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.
I’m forming a charitable institution for education.
My grandmother was a very charitable woman, and my mother grew up that way.
There’s the classic charitable contribution, which we receive thousands, and we’re extremely grateful and they often come with notes from people, which are very heartwarming, about how much difference our products have made in their life on the Internet.
In my role as a spokesperson for Amnesty International U.S.A. and as a supporter of various charitable causes including Unlock Iran, a campaign to release prisoners of conscience in Iran, I have never been faced with the threat of intimidation or arrest.
My brother and I made a pact that every deal we do has to have a charitable component; otherwise, we don’t do it.
You know, I think it was very important that my grandmother be perceived a very particular way in terms of being charitable or generous. I don’t think Donald cares about those two things necessarily. He has his own version of what he wants the world to see.
There is precious little that’s charitable about the world of charity.
I’ve been donating all the money I earn from the TV shows to a charitable trust.
Conservatives are charitable, forgiving, and are always – always – more willing to laugh at themselves.
We all want a simpler code, but tax reform is about much more. It is about ensuring that everyone pays their fair share. The tax code is also used to promote behavior that we as a nation support, such as home ownership or charitable contributions.
I always wanted to work in charitable things, community outreach, etc.
September 11 is one of our worst days but it brought out the best in us. It unified us as a country and showed our charitable instincts and reminded us of what we stood for and stand for.
With inheritances, it’s really important not to give the impression that you’re extorting your children, and one way you can not do that is to make it clear to them that you’re not leaving the whole of your estate to them at all, but to various charitable organizations.
What I found in my research on Trump’s charitable giving was that often he would promise something and then never deliver, but sort of go around with people believing he’d done this thing he’s promised.
Indeed upon much that may have to say, I expect rather the charitable judgment than the full assent of those whose approbation I could most wish to win.
Our Heavenly Father is far more merciful, infinitely more charitable, than even the best of his servants, and the Everlasting Gospel is mightier in power to save than our narrow finite minds can comprehend.
I have to thank God for bringing me through and allowing me to continue to do charitable work for other sick children suffering with sickle cell.
I always tell people this: to be a savvy politician or a good head of state and to be charitable are not mutually exclusive things.
In the charitable world, I find myself giving to large projects that I think can make a large-scale impact.
Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does.
Other people might have family – three kids or five houses. In my case, that doesn’t exist. I’m going to give everything away. Everything has been transferred to charitable trusts. There is no question about that. The question is where, not if.
Naming rights are a seductive philanthropic inducement, yet more anonymous operational support may better advance the charitable purpose.
I really admire the way the fans have joined me in social justice endeavours and the charitable work that I’ve been involved in. We’ve raised over $100,000 on Twitter for our non-profit in Uganda.
Sweeter than the perfume of roses is a reputation for a kind, charitable, unselfish nature; a ready disposition to do to others any good turn in your power.
Government subsidies to elite private universities take the form of tax deductions for people who make charitable contributions to them.
U.A.E.’s continuously growing initiatives in the field of charitable and humanitarian works became a basic component of our foreign activities.
My business is the enforcement of the tax laws and the integrity of the tax code and making sure that trustees of charitable giving are true trustees.
Many entrepreneurs embrace profit-making and charitable purposes. Companies such as shoes seller Toms and eyeglass firm Warby Parker sell products at a profit with a pledge to devote part of their earnings to the needy. The number of for-profit businesses with a built-in charitable dimension has proliferated.
My dad provided me with a great way of life, and he was very charitable man.
For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.
I think that everyone in Seattle, their daily existence, is enriched by all the charitable giving that is courtesy of Microsoft.
For years, friends in Springfield, Missouri, have remarked on the physical resemblance between Brad Pitt and his only brother, Doug. But the two share a deeper similarity: their commitment to charitable causes.
Americans also don’t need to be taught how to give. We don’t need to be taught how to take care of each other or how to be charitable.
Even private persons in due season, with discretion and temper, may reprove others, whom they observe to commit sin, or follow bad courses, out of charitable design, and with hope to reclaim them.
To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.
The Trump campaign generally does not respond at all to my requests for information – either requests for broader data on Trump’s charitable giving or narrow requests for information about specific subjects, like the $20,000 portrait of himself that Trump seems to have purchased with money from his charity.
I like what I’m doing. Today at 88, I wouldn’t think of quitting because I can’t think of anything else I would rather do. And now with my lectures on all the charitable things that I do, just as you do, I think that what I’m doing matters.
Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the ‘war on terror.’ In contrast, Washington’s withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice.
What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.
I believe that we all need to do charitable work. It should be taken seriously in the area of education, as someone from the industry.
In my judgment, the American people are too brave, too charitable, too generous, too magnanimous, to believe in the infamous dogma of an eternal hell.
Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.
I don’t think it’s my job or anything that I owe somebody. But it is nature – coaching – and I like to think I’m pretty charitable in the sense that I like to help people out, share and talk football.
My life is so filled with my children, my family, and the charitable work I do.
There’s no denying that Christy Turlington looks good in everything, but it’s especially great when she uses her supermodel looks and charitable spirit to support the organization she founded, Every Mother Counts.
I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She’s the sweetest woman in the world. I’m looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I’m looking for honesty and a big heart.
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