Quotes About Generosity

To see those babies with no food for three of four days, old people sitting in the hot sun, when you see these poor people, you cannot help but being compassionate or affected.

I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.

I chose to work with Stork's Sunday Bake Service as it's a great way to help people out - whether they're baking experts or baking novices, the service assists people with the same passion as me, so I couldn't refuse!

We went to church every Sunday. I do think it's my duty to give back. That's why I'm involved with St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital and the Make-a-Wish Foundation.

God is so kind, he has given so much sunshine to India.

The question I asked Georges has now become a general one - You, who thought you were superfluous, who thought there was no place for you in society, not only are you not superfluous, you are needed and so those who were beggars become givers.

This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess.

It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one's hand to someone else involuntarily, and without ever knowing how useful this will be.

To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil.

Je mehr Liebe man gibt, desto mehr besitzt man davon.

You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

The only true gift is a portion of thyself.

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself. Thou must bleed for me.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

We have a great deal more kindness than is ever spoken. (Despite) all the selfishness that chills like east winds the world, the whole human family is bathed with an element of love like a fine ether... The effect of the indulgence of this human affection is a certain cordial exhilaration.

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar

if we shall take the good we find,asking no questions,we shall have heaping measures.

You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong

I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.