Quotes About Generosity

If you have anything, or if I have anything, it's because it's been given to us by our Creator.

It's only a certain amount of days your friend's mom is gonna let you stay at they crib without feeling some type of way. So I'd stay two or three days, then they mom would be like, 'What's up with him? He got to leave unless he gonna pay for something.'

I cringe inside when anybody gives me something. I don't know why. I just get embarrassed.

I've never met Mr. Mark Cuban, but I tell people that I thank him more than life itself.

I am currently doing about 30 charity auctions a year.

India has a long tradition of giving that cuts across all sections of society. It is a living legacy that we can all be proud of.

I'm just trying to stay positive, man, and help as many people as I can. Cuz if you don't help people when you get successful, I don't be respecting those people. I don't respect them as a whole.

As I get, I give. Giving as you get is critical. It has everything to do with being happy for yourself, and making others happy is the cause of making yourself happy, and it's the cycle of giving and getting.

I bought my dad a bustdown Rolex for Christmas, and I had got my mama kitchen remodeled. My daddy cried, my mama cried, I cried.

Dallas is somebody who genuinely likes helping other people.

I pick up the tab for my mom now, I don't let her pay for any dinners.

I believe that people, regardless of their station in life, should be able to sit down at a table to a meal - inside away from the heat and cold, the rain and the snow.

You never know when the tables will turn, so I think we should all just be kind to one another. It's really as simple as that.

The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.

Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.

You know what I hate? Indian givers... no, I take that back.

I always say: 'Share your happiness with the world, give other people that happiness and let it come back,' but some things make me question it. I don't know if I want some people to know that I am happy. I think a lot of people want to take it away from you, and that's really scary.

My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.

We don't take advantage of our position. We keep saying no to free stuff, as we can afford it now.

It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.

I am nice to everybody. But people really take advantage of it.

Take care that all your offerings be free, and of your own, that has cost you something; so that ye may not offer of that which is another man's, or that which ye are entrusted withal, and not your own.

When you're a caregiver, you need to realize that you've got to take care of yourself, because, not only are you going to have to rise to the occasion and help someone else, but you have to model for the next generation.

I like to live well and I feel good about it because I know how much we give back. There's plenty for my family, now let's take care of the rest.