1. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

- Dalai Lama

2. Charity brings to life those who are spiritually dead.

- Thomas Aquinas

3. Kindness can transform someone’s dark moment with a blaze of light. You’ll never know how much your caring matters. Make a difference for another today.

- Amy Leigh Mercree

4. Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.

- Saint Augustine

5. Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

- Samuel Johnson

6. I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

- Andrew Carnegie

7. Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

- Albert Einstein

8. One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

- George Eliot

9. I don’t want to live in the kind of world where we don’t look out for each other. Not just the people that are close to us, but anybody who needs a helping hand. I can’t change the way anybody else thinks, or what they choose to do, but I can do my bit.

- Charles de Lint

10. So long as we love we serve; so long as we are loved by others, I would almost say that we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

- Robert Louis Stevenson

11. Giving is the master key to success, in all applications of human life.

- Bryant McGill

12. Take time daily to reflect on how much you have. It may not be all that you want but remember someone somewhere is dreaming to have what you have.

- Germany Kent

13. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

- Eleanor Roosevelt

14. Everyone can be great, because everyone can serve.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

15. He who has no charity deserves no mercy.

- English Proverb

16. If you’re not making someone else’s life better, then you’re wasting your time. Your life will become better by making other lives better.

- Will Smith

17. We are not put on this earth for ourselves, but are placed here for each other. If you are there always for others, then in time of need, someone will be there for you.

- Jeff Warner

18. Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.

- Dr. Seuss

19. Selfless giving is the art of living.

- Frederic Lenz

20. 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

21. In charity there is no excess.

- Francis Bacon

22. No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

- Charles Dickens

23. If you want happiness for an hour, take a nap. If you want happiness for a day, go fishing. If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help somebody.

- Chinese Proverb

24. 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 Simple Path: Mother Teresa

25. When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.

- Norman Vincent Peale

26. To give requires good sense.

- Ovid

27. Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire.

- St. Catherine of Siena

28. Find a need and fill it.

- Ruth Stafford Peale

29. Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.

- Roy T. Bennett

30. Every charitable act is a stepping stone towards heaven.

- Henry Ward Beecher

31. There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he is willing to climb himself.

- Andrew Carnegie

32. To do more for the world than the world does for you, that is success.

- Henry Ford

33. When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it’s time to turn out the lights.

- George Burns

34. The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

- Barack Obama

35. If we always helped one another, no one would need luck.

- Sophocles

36. The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‘If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?’ But…the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‘If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?’

- Martin Luther King Jr.

37. Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

- Leo Tolstoy

38. Giving is not just about making a donation. It is about making a difference.

- Kathy Calvin

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

- Samuel Johnson

40. We only have what we give.

- Isabel Allende

41. The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.

- Edwin Louis Cole

42. To give your best is to receive the best.

- Raymond Holliwell

43. Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.

- Rev. Jesse Jackson

44. There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

- Khalil Gibran

45. Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.

- Jim Rohn

46. Charity sees the need, not the cause.

- Proverb

47. Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others.

- Socrates

48. Community service gives me a valuable opportunity to walk into a different community that is less familiar to me but just as colorful and most importantly, in need.

- Caroline Landry

49. Give, but give until it hurts.

- Mother Teresa

50. I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able to help.

- Mohamed Al-Fayed

51. At the end it’s not about what you have or even what you’ve accomplished. It’s about who you’ve lifted up, who you’ve made better. It’s about what you’ve given back.

- Denzel Washington

52. He who serves the most, reaps the most.

- Jim Rohn

53. Caring has the gift of making the ordinary special.

- George R. Bach

54. Is the rich world aware of how four billion of the six billion live? If we were aware, we would want to help out, we’d want to get involved.

- Bill Gates

55. The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

- Mahatma Gandhi

56. What I spent, I had; what I saved, I lost; what I gave, I have.

- German Proverb

57. Help thy brother’s boat across and lo! Thine own has reached the shore.

- Hindu Proverb

58. When you open your heart to giving, angels fly to your door.

- Unknown

59. It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.

- Mahatma Gandhi

60. While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

- Jackson Brown Jr.

61. He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

- Abraham Lincoln

62. A benefactor is a representative of God.

- Benjamin Whichcote

63. To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

- Douglas Adams

64. The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.

- Pablo Picasso

65. I wondered why somebody didn’t do something. Then I realized, I am somebody.

- Unknown

66. That charity which longs to publish itself ceases to be charity.

- Eliza Cook

67. When you learn, teach. When you get, give.

- Maya Angelou

68. No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

- Martin Luther King Jr.

69. There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

- John Holmes

70. To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

- Abraham Lincoln

71. Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.

- Frank A. Clark

72. You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

- John Bunyan

73. When wealth is centralized, the people are dispersed. When wealth is distributed, the people are brought together.

- Confucius

74. I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

- Maya Angelou

75. There is nothing more beautiful than someone who goes out of their way to make life beautiful for others.

- Mandy Hale

76. I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do.

- Edward Everett Hale

77. Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

- Sarah Bernhardt

78. The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

79. Where charity keeps pace with gain, industry is blessed.

- William Penn

80. Not he who has much is rich but he who gives much.

- Erich Fromm

81. The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

- Robert F. Kennedy

82. Our prime purpose in this life is to help others and if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

- Dalai Lama

83. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.

- Steve Maraboli

84. Want to keep Christ in Christmas? Feed the hungry, clothe the naked, forgive the guilty, welcome the unwanted, care for the ill, love your enemies, and do unto others as you would have done unto you.

- Steve Maraboli

85. If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.

- Proverb

86. To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

- Horace Mann

87. You can have everything you want in life if you just help enough people get what they want in life.

- Zig Ziglar

88. The small charity that comes from the heart is better than the great charity that comes from the head.

- Ivan Panin

89. Wealth is not new. Neither is charity. But the idea of using private wealth imaginatively, constructively, and systematically to attack the fundamental problems of mankind is new.

- John Gardner

90. The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.

- Jane Addams

91. There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.

- Conrad Hilton

92. Non nobis solum nati sumus. (Not for ourselves alone are we born.)

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

93. Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

- Booker T. Washington

94. It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

- Winston Churchill

95. An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.

- Lydia M. Child

96. It’s good to be blessed. It’s better to be a blessing.

- Jerry Smith

97. We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

- Winston Churchill

98. At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by “I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in.

- Mother Theresa

99. Sometimes give your services for nothing.

- Hippocrates

100. If you knew what I know about the power of giving, you would not let a single meal pass without sharing it in some way.

- Buddha

101. When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better.

- Pauline R. Kezer

102. In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

- Mahatma Gandhi

103. Great opportunities to help others seldom come, but small ones surround us every day.

- Sally Koch

104. The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.

- Laurence Leamer

105. The test of a civilization is in the way that it cares for its helpless members.

- Pearl S. Buck

106. We rise by lifting others.

- Robert Ingersoll

107. 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

108. Charity: a thing that begins at home, and usually stays there.

- Elbert Hubbard

109. Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

- Buddha

110. Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

- Charles Caleb Colton

111. Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

- Buddha

112. Getters don’t get — givers get.

- Eugene Benge

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

- John D. Rockefeller

114. This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.

- Theodore Roosevelt