Quotes About Generosity

Give thy love freely, do not count the cost: So beautiful a thing was never lost.

Love those who love you, help those you help you, and give to those who give to you.

What shall I do when greed consumes me? Remember that it is truly better to give than to receive.

To give is to do what you can to make things better. The good in people will respond to that, and support it, and imitate it, and multiply it, and return it, and foster it, so that everything improves and moves forward.

Kindness is a free gift, freely given,

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

Ä°çi geçmiÅŸ bir kaç kötü oyuncak için bunca çaba!" dedi. "Elbette ki, yaÅŸayan bütün yoksullara çok güzel ÅŸeyler de veremezler.

Pecan, tal vez, los que piensan en sí y viven para los demás: los abnegados y los altruistas, los que sacrifican sus goces y fuerzas en beneficio ajeno, renunciando a sus comodidades y aun a su vida, como suele ocurrir?

Su generosidad es siempre dinero dado a usura. Su amistad es una complacencia servil o una adulación provechosa.

Dorotília es más pobre que yo. Y las otras chicas no quieren jugar con ella porque es negrita y muy pobre. Por eso ella se queda siempre en un rincón. Yo divido con ella mi masita, esa que usted me regala.

Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence itis the noblest cry that has ever resounded on this planet.

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

Poverty palls the most generous spirits; it cows industry, and casts resolution itself into despair.

One of the best springs of generous and worthy actions, is having generous and worthy thoughts of ourselves: whoever has a mean opinion of the dignity of his nature will act in no higher a rank than he has allotted himself in his own estimation.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

A friend said, "Ah, I get it. All of my life I have gone into every next event asking, in effect, What's in it for me? Now I see that what I must do is go into every event asking, What can I do for them?" And my friend had grievously missed the point. The great discovery is that we have nothing to give at all to anyone, anywhere.

basking in the truth that now and at last you are finally rich enough to be given things free.

Sometimes in this life it is necessary to sacrifice oneself for the good of others . - Mam

beggars were permitted to enter great houses and solicit directly from the table, but now they are restricted to the doorstep.

Generosity, love, compassion, or devotion do not depend on a high IQ.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve

It is true that wealth buys power and influence, but it does not buy morality, or kindness, or compassion. The pursuit of wealth can blind us to the fact that all of us, rich or poor, can be generous with our time, love, kindness, and compassion. Those virtues, and many more, we can all have in unlimited supply.

It was understandable, then, that the worth of a person was not measured in the things he or she owned, but in the deeds done on behalf of others.