Quotes About Generosity

I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.

Oh! Well, Many happy returns of the day, Eeyore." "And many happy returns to you, Pooh Bear." "But it isn't my birthday." "No, it's mine." "But you said 'Many happy returns'--" "Well, why not? You don't always want to be miserable on my birthday, do you?

You can get everything in life you want if you just help enough other people get what they want.

Someday When we are wiser When the world's older When we have learned I pray Someday we may yet Live To live and let live Someday Life will be fairer Need will be rarer Greed will not pay Godspeed This bright millennium On its way Let it come Someday

IF PEOPLE WOULD only be satisfied with the essentials and if they'd only try to improve everyone else's well-being and share in their common concerns, they'd conquer the world and have more than they ever wanted from it. —RABBI BAHYA IBN PAQUDA (11TH CENTURY)

A day should not pass without acts of loving-kindness, either with one's body, money, or soul.

BEFORE A PERSON gives up his portion in the next world for others, let's see if he is willing to forgo some of his share in this world for others. —RABBI YOSEF YOZEL HURWITZ, THE ALTER OF NOVARDOK (1849–1919)

While generosity is about more than just money, bear in mind that the idea of it is really based not so much on what you give but rather what you have left after you give.

I started off with making personal donations and eventually set up my own foundation, VTCY Foundation, now known as Better Malaysia Foundation. My contributions are also made through companies that I own.

Speaking from personal experience, if someone asked me on a date, I would still want to pay.

To oblige persons often costs little and helps much.

Volunteering is a great way to look outside your own problems. Giving back to makes you happier by both giving you a sense of purpose and helping to put your problems in perspective.

I think, instead of the pessimism of the Remain campaign, we have an opportunity to think of the next generation. If we have faith in their talent, in their generosity, in their hard work, we can, if we leave the E.U., ensure the next generation makes this country once more truly great.

I am a midfielder who is mainly involved in the defensive phases, even if I also like to help build moves - I would say that my foremost quality is my generosity.

I would love to have had much more money so that I could be a philanthropist.

I hate the term 'philanthropist.'

Apart from acting and singing, there is a philanthropist inside me who craves to do something for the needy and less fortunate.

I am not giving so much of my wealth that I should feel that I am a philanthropist.

The Royal family have always been great philanthropists.

My goal is to work diligently to become the top philanthropist in the world.

As philanthropists, the most powerful legacy we can create is one that keeps on giving - through our children.

Philanthropy is in the DNA of my family.

The best rule for philanthropy is to give until it hurts, as much as you can, because none of us can get through life all by ourselves.

Philanthropy is the thing that I am really excited about, and having success means I can do more.