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Quotes About Generosity

Love . . . [is] a lack of personal selfishness.
~ Theodore M. Burton
I believe that love expands. As you give love out, it's received and reciprocated and it grows. That's the beauty of it.
~ Hill Harper
Little is much, If love abides
~ Janette Oke
Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
~ Erich Fromm
Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.
~ Thomas Traherne
You know what love is? It is all kindness, generosity.
~ Rumi
Real love doesn't seek to acquire. It gives itself away. Its very nature is that of surrender, service, and generosity.
~ Catherine Ingram
Learn to drink as you pour, so the spiritual heart cannot run dry and you always have love to give.
~ Ma Jaya
Your giving and searching for ways to give is Love in action. This is the evidence of Spirit at work.
~ Marshall Vian Summers
Charity isn't about pity, it is about love.
~ Mother Teresa
I believe in continuing to put love and kindness and compassion and art into the world.
~ Nicole Kidman
Love is overflowing joy. Love is when you have seen who you are. Then there is nothing left except to share your being with others.
~ Rajneesh
To love others you must love yourself...You can only give to others what you have yourself.
~ Leo Buscaglia
Caregiving has no second agendas or hidden motives. The care is given from love for the joy of giving without expectation, no strings attached.
~ Gary Zukav
Only great souls know the grandeur there is in charity.
~ Jacques-Benigne Bossuet
Be kind to one another. Bye, bye.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
Love everybody, serve everybody.
~ Abdu'l-Bahá
Make everyday decisions from a place of love.
~ Anita Moorjani
Extravagant love is never wasted.
~ Bob Goff
It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.
~ Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love.
~ Henri Nouwen
There are many hearing me who now know well that they are not Christians because they do not love to give. To give largely and liberally, not grudging at all, requires a new heart.
~ Robert Murray M'Cheyne
Love does not take away from one in order to give to another.
~ Ruslana Korshunova