Quotes About Generosity

For what I give, not what I take, For battle, not for victory, My prayer of thanks I make.

There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it.

The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly or mean.

The best kind of giving is thanksgiving.

I say we all take the pledge and stay home. Thanksgiving is a day to give thanks for what you have, not to save a few dollars to get more.

It is delightfully easy to thank God for the grace we ourselves have received, but it requires great grace to thank God always for the grace given to others.

Thanksgiving, to be truly Thanksgiving, is first thanks, then giving.

Every Thanksgiving we feed the homeless so they may join us as we celebrate other people finding a home.

A little "thank you" that you will say to someone for a "little favour" shown to you is a key to unlock the doors that hide unseen "greater favours". Learn to say "thank you" and why not?

Because thankfulness is the tonic that always cures the cancers of greed, envy and jealously, it should be taken in liberal doses daily.

Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.

Gratitude is what you feel. Thanksgiving is what you do.

You shouldn't just give during Christmas and Thanksgiving you should be giving all the time.

Thanksgiving Day is a good day to recommit our energies to giving thanks and just giving.

Every Thanksgiving, we all write down three things we're thankful for and put them in a hat. Then we pass the hat around the dinner table and everyone has to guess who wrote what!

There can be no greater gift than that of giving one's time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.

Even after all this time, the sun never says to the earth, 'you owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that! It lights up the whole sky.

When you give someone your time, you are giving them a portion of your life that you'll never get back.Your time is your life. That is why the greatest gift you can give someone is your time

Why are you stingy with yourselves? Why are you holding back? What are you saving for - for another time? There are no other times. There is only now. Right now.

How do we change the world? One random act of kindness at a time.

When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.

If I had a dime for every time a homeless guy asked me for change, I'd still say no.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

It's time for greatness - not for greed. It's a time for idealism - not ideology. It is a time not just for compassionate words, but compassionate action.