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Quotes About Generosity

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think we ought to have a kindness year, or a kindness century.
~ Jilly Cooper
The age of selfishness and greed is over. The age of kindness and generosity is underway.
~ Laurence Overmire
Be kind. Always if you have a choice, be kind.
~ Anne Rice
Even a little gift may be vast with loving kindness.
~ Theocritus
Kindness is the evidence of greatness. If anyone is glad that you are here, then you have not lived in vain.
~ Charles Fenno Hoffman
Oh be swift to live, make haste to be kind.
~ Henri Frederic Amiel
Some people don't know what to do with an act of kindness.
~ Jodi Picoult
Kindness comes with no price.
~ Laurence Yep
Err in the direction of kindness.
~ George Saunders
Kindness holds the key to the secret of our own transformation and, in the process, of the transformation of the world.
~ Jean Maalouf
He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both.
~ William Shakespeare, Henry V
To repay evils with kindness is the religion I was taught to practise, and this will forever be my rule.
~ John James Audubon
All I'm saying is, kindness don't have no boundaries.
~ Kathryn Stockett, The Help
Be kind to yourself, to others and everything around you.
~ Alexandra Stoddard
The basis of all good human behavior is kindness.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Some show their kindness to the poor by employing them in their kitchens. Would they not be kinder if they employed themselves there?
~ Henry David Thoreau
If you set out to do a good deed, you may do a hundred small kindnesses on the way.
~ Sarah Doudney
Each heart holds the secret: 'Kindness' is the word.
~ John Boyle O'Reilly
Kindness is no common virtue. It is a rare gift.
~ David Samuels
Everyone, to those weaker than themselves, is kind.
~ Aeschylus
Kindness will always attract kindness.
~ Sophocles
I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness.
~ Mother Teresa
The merit of persons is to be no rule of our charity, but we are to do acts of kindness to those that least deserve it.
~ William Law