Quotes About Generosity

Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others.

Charity is to be measured, not by what one has given away, but by what one has left.

Love begins when duty finishes. It is a giving of the cloak when the coat is taken. It is walking the extra mile.

The word enough does not exist in Love's vocabulary

His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name.

Be as generous as possible" is idle talk, if the generosity of the pastor has not preceded the generosity of his flock.

The Logos or Word of God taking a child on His lap will forever remain the mission of education- to share it as wealth must be shared.

Ce qu'il y a de plus heureux dans la richesse, c'est qu'elle permet de soulager la misère d'autrui.

Il n'y avait pas à se le cacher, mes élèves au regard angélique devenaient à Noël de petits monstres acharnés à saigner leurs parents aux fins de se montrer généreux envers moi.

I don't just live in a bubble in Los Angeles. I'm on the road all the time. I say hello to people everywhere. That way, you get to see what despair is around the holidays. People are making terrible choices: Do I have heat in the winter or food on the table? Decisions between filling the gas tank or buying a gift for a kid.

Winter is always the hardest period for rough sleepers because of the climate and the post-Christmas dip in generosity towards anyone begging. And there's a genuine risk to life for anyone having to sleep out as temperatures plummet.

When we used to go to the car-wash where people would wipe the windows, my dad would go out and help them and then tip them as well, so I learned my empathy from my dad, and my mum is very empathetic too, but in a very stern way; she will always check my ego.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

I think you have a moral responsibility when you've been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.

People who have money have an obligation. I wouldn't say I'm entitled to tell them what to do with it but to use it wisely.

Treat others as you wish to be treated. Don't just be nice, but be kind to other people. That can be so rewarding.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

I wish I could relive those days when I was 8 and my mother bought all the gifts I gave to people. I loved watching people open them. It was a surprise for me and then.

Pure libertarianism believes that people will be generous and help each other. Well, they won't. I wish it were so, and I live that way. I help panhandlers, but other people are, 'Oh look at that - why doesn't he get a job?' While I believe in all that freedom, I also believe that no one should suffer needlessly.

I just wish that people were kinder.

Although it sounds very trite, I wish people were nice.