Quotes About Generosity

Well, your greatest joy definitely comes from doing something for another, especially when it was done with no thought of something in return.

I love this planet... I want to see the environment preserved and I want to see the human race preserved. And I'd like to see everybody living decently in a more equitable, kind-hearted, thoughtful, generous world.

Give back in some way. Always be thoughtful of others.

There is a bedrock decency to people in the Midwest. They are thoughtful and ready to help you if something needs to be done.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!

My parents were loving, caring, generous and thoughtful.

I have been accused of being a Pollyanna, but I think there are plenty of people dealing with the darker side of human nature, and if I am going to write about people who are kind and generous and loving and thoughtful, so what?

She is one of the nicest people I've ever met. No one is more thoughtful than Christine Bleakley.

Times might be tough, your head and thoughts might be spinning, but I find it's physically impossible to do that spiral thing when your mind is focused on giving and creating opportunity.

For every dollar you give away, you'll get a hundred back. And for every buck you steal, you'll lose a thousand.

Seven hundred thousand people who have dementia in this country are not heard. I'm fortunate; I can be heard. Regrettably, it's amazing how people listen if you stand up in public and give away $1 million for research into the disease, as I have done.

Good people can get you out of a thousand problems with charm and kindness.

Love she had found, had a strange way of multiplying. Doubling, trebling itself, so that, as each child arrived, there was always more than enough to go around.

One mustn't lose sight of the hard core, which is, do this, do that, love your friends, like your neighbors, be just, be extravagantly generous, be honest, be tolerant, have courage, have compassion, use your wits and your imagination, understand the world you live in and be on terms with it, don't dramatize and dream and escape. Anyhow that seems to be the pattern.

The Koran teaches that deeds of unselfish kindness will be rewarded in heaven. I've given you precious food and for this unselfishness I will find reward. But now I shall go further. I am going to give you work.

Dear Heavenly Father, this item has brought me so many blessings, and now, I no longer have need of it. Please send me someone who will cherish this item as I have cherished it, and may it bless them as richly as it has blessed me. May this item fulfill a specific need for a specific individual, and may it continue to bless them for many years. Thank you!

The problem was to love people, try to serve them, without wanting anything from them. I was a long way from solving that one.

If you can't pass on a little loving-kindness in this world, you might as well be a gopher in a hole.

He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree.

La obra que, deleitando, consiga dar a luz a la mente y palpitaciones al corazón helado, si aviva la conciencia, si mueve a las acciones nobles y generosas, si enciende el entusiasmo por lo bueno, lo bello y lo verdadero, si se indigna contra las deformidades del vicio y las injusticias sociales y hace que nos interesemos por todos los que sufren, decid que es obra elocuente y eminentemente poética.

When someone is counting out gold for you, don't look at your hands, or the gold. Look at the giver.

Before death takes away what you are given, give away what there is to give.

The gift you can give to other people is allowing them to give you something.

She was always ready with her smile, and would willingly have lent it to anyone who was feeling unhappy.