Quotes About Generosity

If you wake up deciding what you want to give versus what you're going to get, you become a more successful person. In other words, if you want to make money, you have to help someone else make money.

When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you

Giving, not trading or selling, is the basis of success. The most rewarding thing you can do is just to give the world something good. And ultimately you will be paid so much more for that gift than it you had tried to trade it for something else.

If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.

I've learned long ago that a generous person who is wise will never lack for anything.

Sometimes the poorest man leaves his children the richest inheritance.

When a person has lived generously and fought fiercely, she deserves more than sadness at the end.

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

The essence of love is to give continually, without expecting anything in return.

To give means to think, every single day, about what you can do to make people happy.

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.

Be thou generous, and gentle, and forgiving; as God hath scattered upon thee, scatter thou upon others.

Labour like a man, and be ready in doing kindnesses. He is a good-for-nothing fellow who eateth by the toil of another?s hand.

Dünyada kendisi için hiçbir ?eyi olmayan insan?n bile ba?kalar?na yard?m edecek bir ?eyi vard?r.

Kim olursan ol... Dünyada kendisi için hiçbir ?eyi olmayan bir insan?n bile ba?kalar?na yard?m edecek bir ?eyi vard?r... Hiç olmazsa bir tek sözü...

If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I have values I inherited from my father. He helped many. Anyone, even a postman knocking on our door would get a glass of water and some sweets.

But to be loving is simply this: a willingness to respond freely and openly.

Niemand wird müde, seinen Nutzen zu suchen; Nutzen aber gewährt eine naturgemäße Tätigkeit. Werde also nicht müde, deinen Nutzen zu suchen, indem du anderen Nutzen gewährst!

We must remain hopeful that a universal ethic of courage, caring, sharing, respect, radical compassion, and love will make a difference even if we do not see the positive results of our efforts... We can never be too generous or too kind.

Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.

It's when you give something that you have very little of, that you truly give.

Odiosa razza di uomini, quella che rinfaccia i favori, che dovrebbe ricordare chi li ha ricevuti, non chi li fece.