Quotes About Generosity

I look at my success as like, blessings, to bless other people.

What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives.

Success is not just making money. Success is happiness. Success is fulfillment; it's the ability to give.

Success is best when it's shared.

Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.

I am convinced that success is not measured by what you get out of life, but by what you give back.

Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

I wish for a world where success is measured not by what we take nor by what we get. Just by what we give. And who we become.

Instead, I have an abundance mentality: When people are genuinely happy at the successes of others, the pie gets larger.

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

I went from living in a house with five guys in Palo Alto, and living off their leftovers, to all of a sudden having all kinds of resources. And I wanted to figure out how I could take the blessing of these resources and share it with the world.

I feel that I have such an abundance in my life, and once you've seen how many people suffer and how little it takes for you to actually change their lives for the better, it's hard not to do something.

Verdiana was the child of poor though well-born parents, and her knowledge of the sufferings of the poor from her own experience in early years made her ever full of pity for those in need.

It's true: I can't think of even a single way in which society suffers because of a 15-year-old trick-or-treater.

I live with fellow speed skaters and National Team members Heather Richardson, Sugar Todd and Mitch Whitmore, and Sugar lives up to her name. She spoils our household with baked goods, and not just at Christmastime.

Suggest your children try tithing - giving 10 percent of their allowance to a charity every month.

The idea of giving your talent for free in order to save lives seemed like the most sensible thing anyone's ever suggested.

We couldn't afford anything. Suitcase, clothes, everything, Barellan people bought for me.

We are here to add to the sum of human goodness. To prove the thing exists.

It was one of the great pleasures of my life to donate the entire sum of the Nobel Prize, in memory of my sister Ruth Blobel, to the restoration of Dresden.

To help, to continually help and share, that is the sum of all knowledge; that is the meaning of art.

When you give away large sums of money, you can cause as much damage as you may do good.

Today, we don't blink an eye when the world's wealthiest individuals donate enormous sums of money to charitable causes. In fact, we expect them to do so.

I think people like Bill Gates, who have given away enormous sums of money, are shining examples for all of us to follow.