The document is a collection of quotes about giving and philanthropy. It contains over 20 quotes from famous figures like Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King Jr., and Franklin D. Roosevelt. The quotes discuss themes like striving to make the world a better place, helping others in need, generosity and giving without expectation of reward, investing in people and the future, and living fully by giving of oneself.

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2. “What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble
causes and to make this muddled world a better place
for those who will live in it after we are gone..”
– Winston Churchill

3. “Life’s most persistent and urgent question is:
what are you doing for others?.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.

4. “The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not the
hate them, but to be indifferent to them.
That’s the essence of inhumanity.”
– George Bernard Shaw

5. “There is a natural law, a divine law, that
obliges you and me to relieve the suffering,
the distressed and the destitute.”
– Conrad Hilton

6. “And if you do good only to those who do good
to you, why should you receive a blessing?
Even sinners do that.”
– Luke 6:33(GNB)

7. “Life is an echo, what you send out comes back to you.”
– Anonymous

8. “Charity is a virtue of the heart. Gifts and alms are
the expressions, of this virtue.”
– Joseph Addison

9. “We must give more in order to get more,
it is the generous giving of ourselves that
produce the generous harvest.”
– Orison Swett Marden

10. “We give of ourselves when we give gifts of the heart:
love, kindness, joy, understanding,
sympathy, tolerance, forgiveness.”
– Wilfred A Peterson

11. “If you want one year of prosperity, grow grain.
If you want ten years of prospertiy, grow trees.
If you want one hundred years of prosperity, grow people.”
– Chinese Proverb

12. “To do something, however small, to make others
happier and better, is the highest ambition, the most
elevating hope, which can inspire a human being.”
– John Lubbock

13. “The art of philanthropy is a spiritual act, an expression of
caring for one’s fellow human beings. It is a belief in the future
and that the future can be good. It is investing in that future.
It is helping to make the dream come true.”
– Arthur Frantzreb

14. “The fragrance always remains in the hand
that gives the rose.”
– Heda Bejar

15. “The Dead Sea is the dead sea, because it
continually receives and never gives.”
– Anonymous

16. “The test of our progress is not whether we add more
to the abundance of those who have much; it is
whether we provide enough for those who have little.”
– Franklin D. Roosevelt

17. “No person was ever honoured for what he received.
Honour has been the reward for what he gave.”
– Calvin Coolidge

18. “I think the great livers, the people who are fully
self-actualizing and alive, are the great givers.”
– Mack Victor Hansen

19. “Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line
for greatness – great wealth, great return, great
satifaction, great reputation, and great joy.”
– Jim Rohn

20. “I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing,
therefore, that I can do or any kindness that I can show for any
fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it,
for I shall not pass this way again.” – Anonymous

21. Compiled by
Hilary Richard Sam
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