Quotes About Generosity

When I had made more money than I needed for myself and my family, I set up a foundation to promote the values and principles of a free and open society.

Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.

Giving the best to others are giving the best to us. The value of life is not based on how long we live. But, how much can we contribute to others in our society ?

I have been very fortunate to be successful in business, and I believe that it is right that people who have this type of wealth should give something back into society.

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

The measure of a society is its compassion.

Any good society survives on a circulation of favours.

You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised.

Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.

It is the show that keeps giving. Every night it offers something to society, and it offered something to every one of us. It brought us all together for a lifetime.

We can only keep what we have by being willing to freely give it away; a paraphrase of Jesus Christ.

Love expects no reward. Love knows no fear. Love Divine gives - does not demand. Love thinks no evil; imputes no motive. To Love is to share and serve.

A thousand candles can be lighted from the flame of one candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness can be spread without diminishing that of yourself.

Happiness depends on what you can give, not on what you can get.

No amount of prayer or meditation can do what helping others can do.

For, if we have not charity, we are not Christians: charity is the great duty of Christians.

Bread for myself is a material question. Bread for my neighbor is a spiritual one.

Live simply so that others may simply live.

You can give joyfully only when you have found something so valuable within yourself that everything else does not mean so much to you anymore.

Giving is an essential for spiritual unfoldment, for until we give and give abundantly, we don't really realize that we are not the giver; we are just a channel for giving.

To get joy, we must give it and to keep joy, we must scatter it.

If I can put one touch of rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.

There is a spiritual aspect to our lives - when we give, we receive-when a business does something good for somebody, that somebody feels good about them!