Quotes About Generosity

When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.

I see that I must give what I most need.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

One can never pay in gratitude; one can only pay in kind somewhere else in life.

Love is brave and generous and above all it springs from honor. In order to love someone else, you must first be true to yourself. Love is not two people wanting or needing what the other can give. --Hester Latterly

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

This one day her mother gave her a basket of wine and cake to take to her grandmother because she was ill. Wine and cake? Where's the aspirin? The penicillin? Where's the fruit juice? Peter Rabbit got camomile tea. But wine and cake it was.

The joy that isn't shared dies young.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Do not hoard what seems good for a later place in the book, or for another book; give it, give it all, give it now.

Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you. You open your safe and find ashes.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

Practice random beauty and senseless acts of love.

When you're successful, a professional athlete, you can help a lot of others.

Profitability is a shallow goal if it doesn't have a real purpose, and the purpose has to be share the profits with others.

Hilary Putnam died of cancer at the age of 89. Those of us who had the good fortune to know Putnam as mentees, colleagues, and friends remember his life with profound gratitude and love, since Hilary was not only a great philosopher, but also a human being of extraordinary generosity, who really wanted people to be themselves, not his acolytes.

I profoundly feel that the art of living is the art of giving. You're fulfilled in the moment of giving, of doing something beyond yourself.

My grandmother and, and her father actually started a scholarship program in our church, you know, obviously, before I was born. And then my mom also owns a preschool, so, you know, education and giving back are just kind of in, in the genes, in a sense.

I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project.

I think I am incredibly generous with how much I give to my projects, but that's my generosity with the job.

I'm quite a prolific self-gift-giver.

My friends and I are collecting prom dresses to give to girls who can't afford them for their proms.

Overdeliver on promises and deadlines. Show up early, deliver your product early, and deliver more than you promised. Overdeliver now, and in the future, you will be overpaid.

I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.