Quotes About Generosity

For as we all know, real love is altruism. It is finding oneself through giving up oneself.

Fine as justice is, as an every day quality, it is not winning. It is lacking in warmth. We need something better. We need sympathy with the other fellow and kindness.

God gave me my money. I believe the power to make money is a gift from God…. I believe it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.

And kind as kings upon their coronation day.

Prayer Lord Jesus, I thank you for giving me such a rich life. You have blessed me with so many things: family, health, independence, and possessions. I never want to confuse your gifts with yourself. Help me to hold these gifts loosely to free my heart to love you more.

You have the absolute power to change someone's life with kindness.

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

Life is not having, it's wanting. Life is not taking, it's giving. Life is not dying, it's living.

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence.

Charity is unconscious of itself, there is no accumulation first and then distribution. It is like the flower - natural, open, spontaneous.

Take time to make a difference. Don't just obsess about how you can make your life better. Think about how you can make somebody else's life better as well.

Using your own time to make someone else's life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody.

Its a really wonderful thing to focus your life on something other than your own personal career and ambition.

Friendship freely given and gratefully received is one of life's greatest gifts.

Once I stopped dwelling on what I didn't have, on what I thought I was going to lose, and began to give freely, everything opened up for me. Everything began to flow into my life.

Each human being was given two qualities: power and the gift. Power directs us towards our destiny; the gift obliges us to share with others what is best in us.

The world says you gain your life by getting more and more and more and more, but Jesus says, 'No, that leads to death. You get it back by giving it away and when you give it away you get it back.'

I think one can achieve a very pleasant lifestyle by treating human beings, fellow human beings, very well.

You were created to add to life on earth, not just take from it. God wants you to give something back.

Life lived to help others is the only life that matters.

I would willingly stand at street corners, hat in hand, begging passerby to drop their unused minutes into it.

Giving is not a strategy. It's a way of life.

It is not my experience that life's difficulties make people more charitable.

When you express your unique talents and use them in the service of humanity, you create abundance in your life and the lives of others.