Proverbs

"Charity is an attempt wherein I try to expand and bring into the ambit of my life, all others around me and grow to consider the other man's needs and requirements as important as my own personal needs. To live seeking an identity thus, with at least those who are immediately around me, is to live away from the suffocating selfishness and the throttling grip of my body-consciousness"
- Swami Chinmayananda.

"Charity begins at home, but should not end there" - Proverb

"Charity sees the need, not the cause" - German Proverb

"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

"If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble" - Bob Hope

"True charity is the desire to be useful to others without thought of recompense" - Emanuel Swedenborg

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

"He who wished to secure the good of others, has already secured his own." - Confucius

"Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows." - Moliere