Confucius Quotes

When you meet the needy your heart grows bigger

They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts.

It is at times such as this that we show our true spirit of giving and of brotherhood - of revealing the good Samaritan in all of us.

When paying charity, one should smile and be humble, allowing the hand of the indigent to be above the giver's hand.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

You can always give something, even if it is only kindness.

Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love.

My mother once said, "A beggar must always give to another beggar that's worse off than he is." That has always stuck with me.

Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.

We weren't raised to take, we were raised to give the shirt off our back to anyone in need.

You don't need a reason to help people.

We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who are less fortunate. But really, true charity is much, much more. Real charity is not something you give away; it is something that you acquire and make a part of yourself. And when the virtue of charity becomes implanted in your heart, you are never the same again.

Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

People say you should give until it hurts. I say you should give until it stops hurting. Know what I mean?

Help is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.

Even a smile can be charity.

The Master lives within everyone. When you give food to the one who is starving, when you give water to the one who is thirsty, when you cover the one who is cold, you give your love to the Master.

There is great joy in doing something for somebody else with no thought in receiving anything in return.

Nothing can give you greater joy than doing something for another.

There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

Kartik places a sovereign in the lady's cup, and I know that it's likely all he has. "Why did you do that?" I ask. He kicks a rock on the ground, balancing it nimbly between his feet like a ball. "She needed it." Father says it isn't good to give money to beggers. They'll only spend it unwisely on drink or other pleasures. "She might buy ale with it." He shrugs. "Then she'll have ale. It isn't the pound that matters; it's the hope...I know what it's like to fight for things that others take for granted.

When you discover the wonder of giving, you will wonder how you could have lived so long in any other way.

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

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.

This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.