Generosity Quotes

You can only give away what you have ... If you have love, you can give it. If you don't have it, you don't have it to give.

Be an opener of doors

If you give money, spend yourself with it.

And you can always, always, give kindness

When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness.

That is not true I am not a greedy man because if I was why would i donate money to charity?I care about others as well.

One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.

A Candle never Loses any of its Light while Lighting up another candle.

Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

The greatest good we can do for anyone is not to share our wealth with them, but rather to reveal their own wealth to them. It's astonishing how much talent and ability rests inside a human being

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

If you want to achieve your goals, help others achieve theirs.

Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us a place where anyone who is kind, thoughtful and intelligent can come and join us in building a better and more rational world. Jimmy Wales Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

If we can manage to refrain from harming others in our everyday actions and words, we can start to give more serious attention to actively doing good, and this can be a source of great joy and inner confidence. We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

The good we do to others is spoilt unless we efface ourselves so completely that those we help have no sense of inferiority.

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else.

From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it.

Be just as enthusiastic about the success of others as you are about your own.

We must want for others, not ourselves alone.

You'll never see a U-Haul behind a hearse. ... Now, I've been blessed to make hundreds of millions of dollars in my life. I can't take it with me, and neither can you. It's not how much you have but what you do with what you have.

Sickness is poor-spirited, and cannot serve anyone; it must husband its resources to live. But health or fullness answers its own ends, and has to spare, runs over, and inundates the neighborhoods and creeks of other men's necessities.

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.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self.

The good people of Dakota offered to give Calvin Coolidge a farm if he would live on it. I wouldn't advise you to give those people too much credit for generosity. There is not a farmer in any State in the West that wouldn't be glad to give him a farm if he will paint it, fix up the fences and keep up the series of mortgages that are on it. And if you think Coolidge ain't smart, you just watch him not take it.

If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

The amount you give isn't important. What matters is what that amount represents in terms of your life.

If you want love and abundance in your life, give it away.

Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.

While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.

Be intentional to add value to every person you meet everyday.

On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.

If you yourself desire establishment, then help others to get establishment; if you yourself want success, then help others to attain success.

Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

All things are in common among friends.

You know what love is?It is all kindness, generosity.

Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.

Those who win big do it by creating other winners.

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.

If you desire to become a more generous person, don't wait for your income to change. Change your heart.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest.

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

Friendship exists outside our modern economy of scarcity... It's not about apportioning vanishing resources of time and energy. Friendship is a blessed relic of the ancient economy of the gift, and the time freely given to people dear to you actually creates magical abundance.

When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.

Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more then they expect.

Buy whatever kids are selling on card tables in their front yard.

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.

Take more pleasure in giving what is best to another than in having it for yourself, and then all the world will love you.

To enjoy a thing exclusively is commonly to exclude yourself from the true enjoyment of it.

A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere.

When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

A mind that's open to everything means being peaceful, radiating love, practicing forgiveness, being generous, respecting all life, and most important, visualizing yourself as capable of doing anything that you can conceive of in your mind and heart.

We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

You can't accumulate anything, because anything you get you have to give away. We all know this. We watch our bodies go through the aging process. We know we came in here with nothing, and we know we're going to leave with nothing. There's nothing to own. There's nothing to get. The only thing you can do with your life is give it away. The best, happiest moments in your life are always when you're giving something away.