Muhammad Ali Quotes

It's just not our style to put our names on the philanthropy we've done. It's not in the Jewish tradition of tzedakah.

True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.

I want to help people in need, but I don't want people to know I'm doing it.

I already do some charity, but I don't necessarily talk about it. That doesn't mean I don't do it.

I love charity. Ask anyone.

If you have money, and you help people, you don't talk about it. Just do it.

It's strange the times people choose to be generous.

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect.

Robin Williams was the kind of generous person who would do things but not want to receive public credit for it.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

Why should people ever take credit for charity when they must know that they cannot gain as much pleasure out of their guineas in any other fashion?

People do not give from the top of their purses but from the bottom of their hearts. If you desire to become a more generous person do not change your income. Change your heart.

Real charity is giving from the heart without taking credit.

Whenever somebody reaches above their own limitations - I always tell people, the best time to go give is when you have nothing.

My object in life is not simply to make money for myself or to spend it on myself in dressing or running around in an automobile, but I love to use a part of what I make in trying to help others.

If we all did as Jesus did when he helped the poor, we wouldn't need the government.

If people are going to give, they're going to give. And it doesn't matter if you give a dollar or five dollars or a hundred dollars or a million dollars; it's all according to your ability.

People who are obsessed with God are known as givers, not takers. Obsessed people genuinely think that others matter as much as they do, and they are particularly aware of those who are poor around the world (James 2:14-26).

No matter how you decide to spend a little more time on your gestures of giving, the point is just quite simply that you do.

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

I really believe when you give to other people, you give to yourself.

When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

I was amazed by this person who, even though she had everything, would go to feed the homeless and visit sick children and Aids victims. It was like a fairy tale. Who was she really? Why did she do this? She was trying to find love. I wanted the world to see her kindness, her humility: I think she realised that would be her way.