Quotes About Generosity

Part of our purpose in life is to build a legacy – a consistent pattern of building into the lives of others.

Fashion is life-enhancing and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

Just try to give as much as you can through your daily life to yourself and the people around you.

We are all here on earth to help others.

I shall pass through life but once. Let me show kindness now, as I shall not pass this way again.

To be a saint is to be a little out of one's mind, which is a very good thing to be a little out of from time to time. It is to live a life that is always giving itself away and yet is always full.

Any 'Christians' who take for themselves any more than the plain necessaries of life, live in an open habitual denial of the Lord. They have gained riches and hell-fire.

Assists is what Earvin is all about. That's what my whole life has been, assisting others.

Whenever anybody comes to me with a way that I can give something back, it would be ungrateful at this point in my life to not say yes.

You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.

Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars

Life is a wheel. The more you give, the more you get back.

Life is not about what you can accumulate. I learned to live when I learned to give.

However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more or just expressing it in different ways.

It is really not how much you can get out of life that matters; it is how much you can put into it that counts. What will you contribute to life today?

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

Life is a gift, not to possess, but to share.

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

Whatever you want in life, you've got to give away first.

I am in favor of an idea that's been around for a number of years, which is to reward people who are willing to give a kidney and save the life of a stranger.

It's not what you have at the end of life, it's what you leave behind that matters.

He who seeks possessions for himself will never find them-until he begins to give of the abundance of possessions which he already has.