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Quotes About Generosity

I ran five miles today. Then, finally, I said, 'Here, lady... take your purse.'
~ Emo Philips
My mom, ever since we were little girls, has really always rallied us together - my sister, our friends - to instill in us the fact that other people don't have what we have, so we have to be really thankful for things.
~ Haylie Duff
Always try to maintain complete tolerance and always make an effort to give people more than they expect.
~ Scott Hamilton
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
~ Xun Kuang
Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world.
~ Judy Biggert
How powerful it is to surprise a total stranger with a really nice act: buy them a cup of coffee, pay their toll. It makes their day; it makes your day.
~ Daniel Lubetzky
Disaster on such a scale does more than spur personal generosity. It has effects that are relevant to the large-scale enactment of regulatory and social welfare measures in the 1930s and 1940s. Disaster "provides an unstructured social situation that enables…the possibility of introducing desired innovations
~ Sarah Chayes
But now, interviewees agreed, any kind of money wins more respect than the qualities their people used to value: truthfulness, objectivity, considering the good of others, hard work, education or the wisdom of old age, humility, and open hearted generosity.
~ Sarah Chayes
You give and you give you give when you do not want to give you give you give you give when you do not want to give.
~ Sarah Gambito
Some people always give excellent gifts. It is a talent. A gift. Unteachable.
~ Sarah Manguso
Be thankful for what is given. Caroline heard the words in her mother's voice. No matter if it is not enough, be thankful.
~ Sarah Miller
A gift you make yourself is the best gift of all.
~ Sarah Morgan
Fortunately love isn't finite. You don't use it all up on one person. It's like a river that keeps flowing.
~ Sarah Morgan
Her hospitality was something exquisite; she had the gift which so many women lack, of being able to make themselves and their houses belong entirely to a guest's pleasure,--that charming surrender for the moment of themselves and whatever belongs to them, so that they make a part of one's own life that can never be forgotten.
~ Sarah Orne Jewett
Winning is not always about shining the brightest. Sometimes it's about sharing the light with someone who has been waiting in the shadows all along.
~ Sarah Weeks
The world's way of pursuing riches is grasping and hoarding. You attain My riches by letting go and giving.
~ Sarah Young
And my God will meet all your needs according to his glorious riches in Christ Jesus. PHILIPPIANS 4:19
~ Sarah Young
YO HE PROMETIDO satisfacer todas tus necesidades según mis gloriosas riquezas.
~ Sarah Young
He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things? —ROMANS 8:32
~ Sarah Young
people. So in your quest to live abundantly, don't compare your circumstances with those of others. You don't need as much money or as many luxuries as your neighbor in order to live
~ Sarah Young
Every good and perfect gift is from above, coming
~ Sarah Young
Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift! —2 Corinthians 9:15
~ Sarah Young
Give generously of what you have, and if you don't have much, give little generously.
~ Scot McKnight
One thing that has to cease among Christians is the appeal to an audience to give with the promise of getting something.
~ Scot McKnight