» Famous Quotes on Giving

"You must be the change you wish to see in the world." (Mahatma Gandhi)

"But history will judge you, and as the years pass, you will ultimately judge yourself, in the extent to which you have used your gifts and talents to lighten and enrich the lives of your fellow men. In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfillment of the best qualities of your own spirit." (Robert F. Kennedy)

"If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one." (Mother Teresa)

"Service to others is the rent you pay for time on this earth." (Muhammad Ali)

"We realize that what we are accomplishing is a drop in the ocean. But if this drop were not in the ocean, it would be missed." (Mother Teresa)

"To share often and much . . . To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived, this is to have succeeded." (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

"What we give to the poor is what we carry with us when we die." (Peter Marin)

"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)

"What do we live for, if not to make life less difficult for each other?" (George Elliot)

"Compassion is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things." (Thomas Merton)

"We are remembered forever by the tracks we leave." (Native American proverb)

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