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Quotes About Generosity

We must first give to life if we expect life to give anything in return. This is the divine law.
~ Harold Klemp
A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.
~ Roy Bennett
If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.
~ John Vianney
The only really happy people are those who have learned how to serve.
~ Rick Warren
To have made even one person's life a little better, that is to succeed.
~ Henry David Thoreau
To be happy, make other people happy.
~ W. Clement Stone
Live simply so others may simply live.
~ Mother Teresa
As Sir Henry Newbolt sums it up: "The real test of success is whether a life has been a happy one and a happy giving one."
~ Robert Baden-Powell
To get all that life wants for you, apply what I call the Boomerang Effect: Give out what you most want to see come back.
~ Robin Sharma
Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.
Care less for your harvest than for how it is shared and your life will have meaning and your heart will have peace.
~ Kent Nerburn
The goal is to live in such a way that our lives will prove worth dying for... The one thing that can't be taken from us, even by death, is the love we give away before we go.
~ Forrest Church
My life is only important if i can help plenty of people
~ Bob Marley
The measure of your life will not be in what you accumulate, but in what you give away.
~ Wayne Dyer
The idea of life is to give and receive.
~ Dizzy Gillespie
The nectar of life is sweet only when shared with others.
~ Adam Mickiewicz
Be blissful and enjoy your life; do not let yourself become obsessed with anything. Determine to use the rest of your life to benefit others as much as possible.
~ Thubten Yeshe
Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world
~ Patrick Stump
You've got to use the life you've been given to give others life
~ Ann Voskamp
Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Your life will become better by making other lives better.
~ Will Smith
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you recall the happiest moments in your life, they are all from when you were doing something for somebody else.
~ Desmond Tutu
When we feel connected to the vastness of life and are confident of life's abundance, we are naturally generous and able to practice the third yama, non-stealing (asteya).
~ Donna Farhi