Quotes About Generosity

That day, I learned that I could be a giver simply by bringing a smile to another person. The ensuing years have taught me that a kind word or a vote of support can be a charitable gift. I can move over and make another place for another to sit. I can turn my music up if it pleases, or down if it is annoying. I may never be known as a philanthropist, but I certainly want to be known as charitable.

I may never be known as a philanthropist, but I certainly am a lover of mankind, and I will give freely of my resources.

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

When you get, give.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.

Rather I like to think of myself as charitable. The charitable say in effect, "I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you." Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

Did I learn to be kinder, To be more patient, And more generous, More loving, More ready to laugh, And more easy to accept honest tears? If I accept those legacies of my departed beloveds, I am able to say, Thank You to them for their love and Thank You to God for their lives.

You cannot be consistently fair or just or kind or generous or loving without courage. It is time for you to decide privately, secretly, in your own place inside yourselves, what you will do. You have to come to peace with a peaceful heart.

WHEN YOU LEARN, TEACH; WHEN YOU GET, GIVE

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

Good done anywhere is good done everywhere.

I may never be known as a philanthropist, but I certainly am a lover of mankind, and I will give freely of my resources. I am happy to describe myself as charitable.

I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come."- Maya Angelou

When I tried to explain how his generosity afforded me the opportunity to improve my writing skills, he shrugged his shoulders and said, I manage artists who make more in one night than you have ever made in a year. Yet I know no one more talented than you. His patronage was a gift as welcome as found money bearing no type of identification.

Aunque en el barrio negro siempre había muestras de generosidad, practicarla entrañaba el dolor del sacrificio. Fuera lo que fuese lo que un negro diera a otro, casi seguro que el donante lo necesitaba tan urgentemente como el donatario. Eso hacía que el dar y recibir constituyera entre ellos un intercambio fructífero.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

I love you Micah. You may not want it. You may not need it. But you'll always have it. It doesn't come with any strings or expectations. It's given freely.

I'd give you the world if you asked.

se había emocionado muchísimo cuando le regaló un lector nuevo —la última versión— además de una colección entera digital de sus libros favoritos ya metidos en el lector.

if you give a man a fish he'll eat for a day, if you teach a man to fish he'll eat all the fish you may have caught for yourself

my grandmother has given me her own version of the precious gift: the most precious gift any teenager coul ask for: MY GRANDMOTHER HAS GIVEN MY MY OWN SEX PLACE!!!!!

To achieve self actualization, do good things for other people that you would want to be done onto yourself

If you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, but if you teach him to fish, he'll eat all the fish you might have caught for yourself.--Advice of Paul Slater, the evil mediator, to Suze