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Quotes About Generosity

Your money, your singleness, marriage, talent and time, they were loaned to you to show the world that Christ is Divine
~ Lecrae
I hope, if you should live to grow up, you will endeavour to be very useful and not spend all your time in pleasing yourself.
~ Elizabeth Fry
It's Christmas time and my rhyme's steady bumpin. Everybody happy, hair still nappy, Gonna steal a gift for my old grandpappy.
~ Snoop Dogg
If you have a chance to accomplish something that will make things better for people coming behind you, and you don't do that, you are wasting your time on this Earth.
~ Roberto Clemente
How good it is to be well-fed, healthy, and kind all at the same time.
~ Henry Heimlich
Christmas is a good time to take stock of our blessings.
~ Pat Boone
Take time off to give to yourself, in a sense to fill yourself up to fullness, to where now you can overflow in giving.
~ John Gray
In the fullness of time, when it is our turn to give, we must in turn plant gardens that we may never eat the fruit of, which will benefit the generations to come.
~ N. R. Narayana Murthy
When I entertain at home, I take time and pleasure in the small details that make all the difference. Entertaining is about giving to people and sharing with them.
~ Valentino Garavani
In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
~ Oscar Wilde
I want to see a revolution of kindness, because what happens is, when you're kind and you give, it's infectious. You give one time, and it's a great feeling and you want to do it again and again.
~ Leigh Anne Tuohy
The only time you should look in your neighbor's bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don't look in your neighbor's bowl to see if you have as much as them.
~ Louis C. K.
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
~ Leon Trotsky
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
~ Esther Williams
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
~ Francesco Guicciardini
There is only one true wealth in all the universe. I have given you some of it. I have given your father and your mate some of it. And your friends. This wealth is living time.
~ Frank Herbert
The greatest gift that you can give to others and to yourself is time. Embrace the gift of time whether you give it or receive it.
~ Philip Zimbardo
Make 2012 the year that you were nice.. because people don't like not nice people.. so be nice.. all the time!
~ Harry Styles
Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.
~ Allegra Huston
Kindness is not about instant gratification. More often, it's akin to a low-risk investment that appreciates steadily over time.
~ Josh Radnor
I have always thought of Christmas time... as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time.
~ Charles Dickens
No matter how rich or poor you might feel, right now is the time to be generous.
~ Andy Stanley
Most of the time, I'm not even working; I'm just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
~ Jackie Chan
Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!
~ Phyllis McGinley