Quotes About Generosity

God loves to give. It's part of His nature, and He does it freely.

It's almost charity work, what people have done, turning other people on to my music.

Systems use relationships to produce products and services. Associations create relationships for their own sake. This has the effect of bringing forth the properties of kindness, generosity, and the rest.

The charitable acts that count the most, Greer believes, are those done without anyone knowing.

Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind.The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. —Henry James

He believes that if you agree to do something you'd rather not do for someone else's sake, then you should do it graciously, with some enthusiasm, like a good sport.

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

The only happiness left her was in making some one else happy.

Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.

I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.

Why do we wait until tomorrow to do good? Why do we wait to be rich before giving? Is not the gift of ourselves better than money, and is there a day or even an hour in which we could not give a tear or a smile to someone who is suffering?

It is easier to be generous than to be just.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

Volunteers do not necessarily have the time; they just have the heart.

Live simply that others might simply live.

Dreams of doing good For good-for-nothing people.

The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!

We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book And calculating profits - so much help By so much rending. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty and salt of truth - 'Tis then we get the right good from a book.

He was the best and kindest all that time, as even he could be, and carried the kettle when it was too heavy for me, and helped me with heart and head.

Generous people are inclined to acquit generously; but it has been very painful to me to observe that with all my mere friends I have found more sympathy and trust, than in those who are of my own household and who have been daily witnesses of my life.

To-day Mr. Poe sent me a volume containing his poems and tales collected, so now I must write and thank him for his dedication. What is to be said, I wonder, when a man calls you the 'noblest of your sex'? 'Sir, you are the most discerning of yours.' Were you thanked for the garden ticket yesterday? No, everybody was ungrateful, down to Flush, who drinks day by day out of his new purple cup, and had it properly explained how you gave it to

My love is not water in a bucket, you know. It's not as if someone else can drink it all up and leave none left for you.

Stud males might be emotional, temperamental, and developmentally stunted, at the mercy of their androgens, but that didn't make them incapable of generosity, friendship, cleverness, or creativity.

My love is not water in a bucket, you know. It's not as if someone else can drink it all up and leave none for you.