Quotes About Generosity

A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference.

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.

Tenderness is not like money: the more you give to one, the more you have for others.

No man can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.

You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.

All the happiness in the world comes from thinking of others; all the suffering in the world comes from thinking of only oneself." By concerning yourself with the problems of others, your own problems become diminished, both in perspective, because you realize that perhaps other people have more serious obstacles than yours, and in reality, because when you stop focusing on your own difficulties they lose their mastery over you.

To preserve our relationships, we give of our time, our assets, our attention, our help, and our love. To preserve our wealth, we give generously as we are accumulating, so we do not invoke the Universal law of maximization, which states that when anything reaches its maximum potential, it turns toward its opposite.

We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

There is a deep—and usually frustrated—desire in the heart of everyone to act with benevolence rather than selfishness, and one fine instance of generosity can inspire dozens more.

I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.

Ce que Dieu te prête, tu dois savoir le rendre. Aucune chose, sur terre, ne t'appartient vraiment.

La tenancière m'offrit une assiettée d'amandes grillées et me promit sa meilleure fille pour fêter ma majorité. – Sans rancune, petit? – Sans rancune, madame. – Comme c'est touchant... Et puis, arrête de me broder avec tes « madame », ça me constipe.

What we spend, we lose. What we keep will be left for others. What we give away will be ours forever.

The enemy takes what isn't his. Jesus gives from what is His. Which are you more like?

Jesus paid a high price for your peace. Don't give it away.

The main shift, you see, is from placing self at the center of our thoughts to putting others there. It is-what do you say?-a paradox that the more we can focus our thoughts on the well-being of others, the happier we become. The first one to benefit is oneself. I call this being wisely selfish.

It is the wonderful paradox," he continued, "that the best way to achieve happiness for oneself is to give happiness to others.

Be wisely selfish, little Snow Lion. Gain happiness for yourself by giving it to others.

Two main true causes of happiness: first, the wish to give happiness to others, which Buddhists define as love, and second, the wish to help free others from dissatisfaction or suffering, which we define as compassion.

the best way to achieve happiness for oneself is to give happiness to others.

One way to achieve happiness is to give happiness to others.