C Quotes
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“Charisma is the fragrance of soul.”
Source: Master of Stupidity
“Charisma is the gift from above where a leader knows from inside himself what to do.”
“Charisma is the intangible that makes people want to follow you,
to be around you, to be influenced by you.”
Source: Secrets of Power: Persuasion for Salespeople: Easyread Large Bold Edition
“Charisma is the numinous aura around a narcissistic personality. It flows outward from a simplicity or unity of being and a composure and controlled vitality. There is gracious accommodation, yet commanding impersonality. Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self love.”
“Charisma is the result of effective leadership, not the other way around.”
Source: Leaders: the strategies for taking charge
“Charisma is the transference of enthusiasm.”
“Charisma on stage is not necessarily evidence of the Holy Spirit.”
“Charisma will sustain a relationship only in the way that strong coffee first thing in the morning will sustain a career.”
“Charisma without character is like fire without heat, it doesn't burn anything.”
“Charisma without character is like running on steam on a busy highway; soon you will run out of gasoline.”
“Charisma without character is postponed calamity.”
“Charisma's good every night. Something special is always about to happen. You've got to believe it.”
“Charisma, that's my strong point. My personality was always good, but with music I had to grow into it. I grew into who I am now.”
“Charisma- the divine force that manifests itself in men and women. The supernatural power we don't need to show to anyone because everyone can see it, even usually insensitive people. But it only happens when we're naked, when we die to the world and are reborn to ourselves.”
“Charismatics have seen pictures of Pope Francis when he was Archbishop of Buenos Aires praying and asking Protestant pastors to pray for him. His friendship towards the charismatic renewal is there.”
“Charitable endeavour exalts the prestige and the status of the giver. This may sound unduly cynical but as with all philantrophic activity, it is not easy to unravel the mutually reinforcing motives of selflessness and self-interest. All that can safely be said is that most members of the royal family have difficulty distinguishing between concern about society, concern about the social order and concern about what best to do so they can remain at the top of it.”
“Charitable giving in the United States has remained at 2% of GDP since 1970.”
“Charitable giving is a huge sector in the United States. It amounts to $350 billion a year. And yet, I can't help feeling that a lot of that is wasted because people have not been thinking about how to do it as effectively as possible.”
“Charitable initiatives drive the future of our neighborhoods.”
“Charitably... I think... sometimes, perhaps, one must change or die. And, in the end, there were, perhaps, limits to how much he could let himself change.”
“Charities must treat donors as if they were shareholders.”
“Charities or Non-Profit Organisations should have the interest of their target market at heart and not to enrich themselves”
“Charity . . . is the opium of the privileged.”
“Charity ... is kind, it is not easily provok'd, it thinks no evil, it believes all things, hopes all things.”
Source: Farther Account of the Tryals of the New-England Witches
“Charity alone, or love and compassion, is what joins [the Lord and a person] together.”
“Charity always feels better to the donor than to the recipient.”
“Charity and benevolence, like honesty, always "pay", a great deal better than their opposites, in spite of all that cynics may adduce to the contrary. Also, they put the mind in a condition in which it can have the maximum of constructive effect on the arteries and nerves of the physical envelope.”
Source: Tibetan Yoga
“Charity and devotion differ no more, the one from the other, than the flame from the fire.”
Source: The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]
“Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.”
Source: The Dramatic Works of Wycherley, Congreve, Vanbrugh, and Farquhar. With Biographical and Critical Notices by Leigh Hunt. A New Edition
“Charity and kindness unwedded to truth are not charity and kindness, but deceit and vanity.”
“Charity and personal force are the only investments worth anything.”
Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856
“Charity and treating begin at home.”
“Charity asks, 'what's wrong, how can I help?'
Justice asks, 'why is it happening and how can I change it?'
And that's when people get uncomfortable. Because it is often the case that these people over here have less, because these people over here have more.
And when we try to change that, there's resistance & there's conflict and struggle.”
“Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.”
Source: Martin Chuzzlewit
“Charity begins at home, but should not end there.”
“Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.”
Source: Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend
“Charity begins at home.”
Source: Terence's Comedies: Translated Into English Prose, as Near as the Propriety of the Two Languages Will Admit; Together with the Original Latin from the Best Editions ... with Notes Pointing Out the Connexion of the Several Scenes, and an Index Critical and Phraseological ...
“Charity begins on the street when you are homeless.”
“Charity brings to life again those who are spiritually dead.”
Source: Theological texts
“Charity But how shall we expect charity towards others, when we are uncharitable to ourselves? Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world; yet is every man his greatest enemy, and, as it were, his own executioner.”
Source: Religio Medici: Hydriotaphia : and the Letter to a Friend
“Charity can be a lifestyle, not merely a gift.
Read charitably. Give the author your most favorable interpretation.
Listen charitably. Donate your undivided attention.
Work charitably. Be generous with your expertise.
In this way, you make charity a daily habit.”
“Charity creates a multitude of sins.”
Source: The Soul of Man under Socialism
“Charity cures heartaches.”
“Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.”
“Charity depends on the vicissitudes of whim and personal wealth; justice depends on commitment instead of circumstance. Faith-based charity provides crumbs from the table; faith-based justice offers a place at the table.”
Source: Faith Works: How Faith-based Organizations are Changing Lives, Neighborhoods, and America
“Charity didn't mean to waste the entire afternoon. But her favorite daytime drama was on the telly. It was always the same, she thought, stretching out on the bed to watch. The sex got her interested first, and then the story. Before long she was totally hooked, and deep into the intricate plots and the glamorous goings-on. And afterwards, she just felt drained.
She was sound asleep by the time Lady Margaret came home.”
Source: Mr. Wrong
“Charity does not like arithmetic; selfishness worships it.”
“Charity does not mean that the land should be full of beggars. We can provide some support and means for the beggars, but provide food, clothing and other conveniences in such a way that you are not encouraging laziness and begging.”
“Charity doesn't end suffering, it only postpones it. The only surefire way to end the suffering of others is to help them become self-reliant.”
Source: I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted
“Charity erodes the cultural prerequisites for a vigorous democracy.”
Source: Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement