Quotes About Generosity

Exchanging gifts is an important thing in the steppe culture, a way for them to feel you have become a part of their lives.

Importantly, I still give money to homeless people - and all other charities.

I have always been impressed by the fruit community. There is a Tao of fruit, which is generous. You share what you know, and you give what you can.

I really admire the fact that whenever Marc Singer gets a call from someone running late, he says he's running late, too. I don't admit that even when it's true. Small, unnoticeable acts of generosity are sometimes the most impressive.

Humankind would improve if we concentrated less on being human and more on being kind.

If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the world you can see and touch - the everyday world that is too easily dismissed as everyday - you see largeness, generosity, hope, change for the better. It's always small, but it's real.

I get excited about people doing stuff, and to whom I want to give. And I believe in giving back to people who have helped me and my family in the past. The key is getting excited.

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn't have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences... everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving - she's better than me.

I don't believe in trickle-down economics. I don't think that people who have the most are inclined to share it, generally.

I hooked up everybody in Sidney, including one guy who was blind.

I found out that people are incredibly compassionate and kind. It really changed my view of the world.

My argument is that charity does indeed start at home, but it doesn't stop there.

What is this Charity, this clinking of money between strangers, and when did Charity cease to be a comforting and secret thing between one friend and another? Does Love make her voice heard through a committee, does Love employ an almoner to convey her message to her neighbour?

When the poor give to the rich, the devil laughs.

I have learned to value the things others are reluctant to give.

DeVoto himself had clearly concluded, go with your gut and do what you know is right: do whatever you can to make the world a better place for those who come after you.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the places you can, and so on and so on.

Charity you can give even when you haven't got.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

We may give without loving, but we cannot love without giving.

Ce n'est pas parce qu'on est pauvre qu'on est vertueux, et ce n'est pas parce qu'on est riche qu'on est égoïste.

Pat never let a customer out of the store empty-handed, period. If there was something they needed that we didn't have, such as a quart size, he would give them the gallon size for the quart price. Pat believed you didn't let a customer leave The Home Depot without satisfying them in some way.

After the verb "to love,", "to help" is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Love is the desire to give, not to receive, something. Love is the art of producing something with the other's talents.