Quotes About Generosity

I just feel that I'm compelled; that I have a responsibility to give back to those less fortunate.

If you've been fortunate enough to have some success in business, I think it's important to put something back.

More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.

Giving only 50% of your fortune is not enough.

I'd be happy if anyone wore my fragrance. They don't have to be famous.

Be friendly to everyone. Those who deserve it the least need it the most.

I'm fully confident that I will win the jackpot - so much so that I've already made a list of all the charities I will contribute to.

Edith Ethel with the sweetest possible smile would beg the pillows off a whole hospital ward full of dying…. She

But charity begins surely with the char!

Granma said when you come on something good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out where no telling it will go. Which is right.

If nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart. And though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that.

If Nature has made you a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that- warm things, kind things, sweet things-help and comfort and laughter- and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.

The mere seeing of Miss Sara would have been enough without meat pies. If there was time only for a few words, they were always friendly, merry words that put heart into one...Sara--who was only doing what she unconsciously liked better than anything else, Nature having made her for a giver--had not the least idea what she meant to poor Becky, and how wonderful a benefactor she seemed.

If nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open and so is your heart; and thought there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full and you can give things out of that-

She said that perhaps it was not so easy to be very rich; that if any one had so many things always, one might sometimes forget that every one else was not so fortunate, and that one who is rich should always be careful and try to remember.

Dearest says that is the best kind of goodness; not to think about yourself, but to think about other people.

If Nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things out of that—warm things, kind things, sweet things,—help and comfort and laughter,—and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.

Have you done your work?" she asked. "Dare you stay here a few minutes?" Becky lost her breath again. "Here, miss? Me?" Sara ran to the door, opened it, and looked out and listened. "No one is anywhere about," she explained. "If your bedrooms are finished, perhaps you might stay a tiny while. I thought--perhaps--you might like a piece of cake." The next ten minutes seemed to Becky like a sort of delirium.

If I was a princess-a real princess, she murmured, I could scatter largess to the populace. But even if i am only a pretend princess, I can invent little things to do for the people. Things like this. She was just as happy as if it was largess. I'll pretend that doing things that people like is scattering largess. I've scattered largess.

is the best kind of goodness; not to think about yourself, but to think about other people. That is just the way you are, isn't it?

To see each of his ugly, selfish motives changed into a good and generous one by the simplicity of a child was a singular experience.

I could scatter largess to the populace. But even if I am only a pretend princess, I can invent little things to do for people. Things like this. She was just as happy as if it was largess. I'll pretend that to do things people like is scattering largess. I've scattered largess.

Nature having made her for a giver- had not the least idea what she made meant to poor Becky, and how wonderful a benefactor she seemed. If Nature has made you for a giver, your hands are born open, and so is your heart; and though there may be times when your hands are empty, your heart is always full, and you can give things you of that- warm things, kind things, sweet things- help and comfort and laughter- and sometimes gay, kind laughter is the best help of all.

send some of their shillings to buy things.