Quotes About Generosity

A person's quality is inversely proportional to the quantity of explanation he demands before agreeing to help a friend in need.

If you're gonna live, then live it up. If you're gonna give, then give it up. If you're gonna walk the Earth, then walk it proud. If you're gonna say the word, you got to say it loud.

I know that man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor one for the alms of my guilt.

Klaus's charm, at least for me, was that his voice already sounded like an imitation of itself; Klaus was an actor bemused to be playing Klaus. And yet the effect of this doubling was generous, self-deprecating;

Pero tú y tus amigas rara vez os acercáis a un pobre para saber de su misma boca la causa de su miseria... ni para observar qué clase de miseria le aqueja, pues hay algunas tan extraordinarias, que no se alivian con la fácil limosna del ochavo... ni tampoco con el mendrugo de pan....

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but reveal to them their own.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to him his own.

Life is not a gift to be received, but rather, infinite gifts that we can give.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

He wish'd to please everybody; and, having little to give, he gave expectations.

Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely.

That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.

When you are good to others you are best to yourself.

I advise you to apply to all those whom you know will give something; next, to those whom you are uncertain whether they will give any thing or not, and show them the list of those who have given; and, lastly, do not neglect those who you are sure will give nothing, for in some of them you may be mistaken.

Gov'r. Thomas was so pleas'd with the construction of this stove, as described in it, that he offered to give me a patent for the sole vending of them for a term of years; but I declin'd it from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, viz., That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.

I declin'd it from a principle which has ever weighed with me on such occasions, viz., That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.

He that has once done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another than he whom you yourself have obliged." And it shows how much more profitable it is prudently to remove, than to resent, return, and continue, inimical proceedings.

O that all may take heed and beware of covetousness! O that all may learn of Christ, who was meek and lowly of heart. Then in faithfully following him he will teach us to be content with food and raiment without respect to the customs or honors of this world. Men thus redeemed will feel a tender concern for their fellow-creatures, and a desire that those in the lowest stations may be assisted and encouraged,

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

He wished to please everybody; and, having little to give, he gave expectations.

Life is revealed as a place to contribute and we as contributors. Not because we have done a measurable amount of good, but because that is the story we tell.

When people are decent, things work out for everybody," my father instructs us. "That's been my theory all through life. If you're making money, let the other fellow make it, too.… If you can work a thing out so that everybody profits, that's the ideal business.

Everybody was being decent, and when people are decent, thing work out for everybody. That has been my theory all through life. If you're making money, let the other fellow make it too. If somebody's getting hurt, it's bad, but if you can work a thing out so that everybody profits that's the ideal business.