Quotes About Generosity

Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional.

Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by their covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power. Welcome it, grasp it, and you touch the angel's hand that brings it to you. Everything we call a trial, a sorrow, or a duty, believe me, that angel's hand is there; the gift is there, and the wonder of an overshadowing presence.

My grandfather was supporting the things I was trying out. It's great to have people like that in your life, and I hope that, well, as a matter of fact, he was the one who said, "You've made this day a special day by just your being you, Freddy."...Well, I've been able to pass that on to other children.

Peace means no one is worried about anyone else's cookie...in this moment we are all quietly content with the cookies we have.

La gente buena tiene un don para irradiar cariño, para producir campos de fuerza donde poder cobijar a los demás, y en parte gracias a esas personas y a la constancia de sus gestos amables, la humanidad todavía no se ha extinguido.

Sharing will enrich everyone with more knowledge.

all ought to be common among friends.

Só dá verdadeiramente quem dá o próprio trabalho, a própria alma, o próprio gênio. E a excelsa oferenda de si mesmo a toda a humanidade tanto enriquece o doador quanto a comunidade.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.

Men would live exceedingly quiet if these two words, mine and thine were taken away.

Although we all knew him for a good and honest man, his goodness was nevertheless an endless surprise, so abundantly was it manifest. To talk with him was what bathing in the Ganges must be for a Hindu. Such was his generosity of spirit that I sometimes found myself deliberately running down a common acquaintance just for the pleasure of hearing André defend him.

La música es la labor de un espíritu generoso que (con esfuerzo o no) reúne nuestras fuerzas primitivas y nos las ofrece, no para que las recobremos: para dejarnos constancia de que allí todavía andan, las pobrecitas, y que yo les hago falta.

cuando un amigo o familiar nos pide dinero prestado, mi esposa y yo (¡tiene que ser una decisión de los dos!), vemos qué pasaría si le tuviéramos que regalar ese dinero. Si no nos afecta el plan, ni los compromisos futuros, se lo prestamos.

For me, that's the definition of being rich: it doesn't cross your mind to mention it to your best friend. And money is such a given you don't care how you come by it.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

The man who dies rich, dies disgraced.

Do real and permanent good in this world.

The hand that gives is among the hand that takes. Money has no motherland, financiers are without patriotism and without decency, their sole object is gain.

Because that's what kindness is. It's not doing something for someone else because they can't, but because you can.

I spent a lot of time with extended family when I was young. Every weekend, Dad would buy half a sheep and Mum would cook for about 50 people, and we would all eat on the couch, in the kitchen, spilling out into the garden.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn't greedy. It was mine, my girl's, my mom's. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we're very modest. But that's not greedy. That's nice, right?

It turns out, all the studies show you invest a little time in another person's life, often a younger person, and all of us have that capacity to do it, just an hour a week, an hour every couple of weeks, and you can make a tremendous difference in a kid's life over their lifetime.

Mummy weighed sweets and nuts so that everyone would get exactly the same amount. During the year, everything is measured roughly, but at Christmas, it has to be absolutely fair. That's why it's such a strenuous time.