Quotes About Generosity

For years, friends in Springfield, Missouri, have remarked on the physical resemblance between Brad Pitt and his only brother, Doug. But the two share a deeper similarity: their commitment to charitable causes.

I have learnt from Simon Cowell that anything is possible if you work hard enough and also that acts of kindness or giving somebody a few minutes of your time can have a massive impact on their life and their future.

Here is the simple but powerful rule... always give people more than they expect to get.

What's fulfilling is being happy and being able to help other people. The simple things.

swear to you, friends, by all the gods, he seems to me happier in doing us kindnesses than in enriching himself.

Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.

Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.

We could go to the extreme of giving away everything we have to feed, clothe, and house the poor, or we could sacrifice ourselves in the most heroic of ways, even our body or our life, but if we don't do those things out of a heart of pure love, they won't profit us in any way (1 Corinthians 13:3). Love is what gives meaning to all that we do.

Heavenly Father, I thank You and praise You for all You have given me. Help me to give back to You with the same heart of praise I have when I receive from You. I want to be a cheerful giver. Help me to never value my possessions more than I value You and Your laws. Enable me to give the way You want me to.

Arthur Steele is getting very generous with his directors, isn't he?

I wondered if I'd ever be nice enough to volunteer for anything. I was hoping not.

Be like this cup. Hold much, give much, and become rich with what is within you.

I'd be a bad bet even if there there no Annie, Rosemary. I would have been. I'm just not good at saying no. I want–I always want to say yes. And I want to want to say yes. To everything. I'm a greedy person. More or less bottomlessly hungry.' He thinks of babies again.

Anger is effortless. Kindness is hard. Try to exert yourself.

Make the world better. Take the meanness out of people's hearts.

It does the world no good to return evil for evil. I try now to return good to them instead.

My own largeness has been to bless yours.

Though I have all knowledge and all faith, and have not charity, I am nothing.

I knew that there was a largeness in you. I knew you possessed a generosity of abilities that comes only rarely into the world.

Your goodness will not be forgotten, I told him. Not a single act of your love will be squandered. You've brought God's kingdom as you hoped-you've planted it in our hearts.

That there was also largeness in you. I knew you possessed a generosity of abilities that comes only rarely into the world. You knew it, too, for you wrote of it in your bowl. But we all have some largeness in us, don't we, Ana?" "What are you saying, Aunt?" "What most sets you apart is the spirit in you that rebels and persists. It isn't the largeness in you that matters most, it's your passion to bring it forth.

I, Haran ben Philip Levias, faithful patron of the Therapeutae for two decades, write to Skepsis, the community's esteemed leader, and ask that my sister and niece, who are presently under the Therapeutae's guardianship, be relinquished into my care, where they will be accorded every concern and favor. By delivering them to the men who encamp nearby, the Therapeutae will continue to enjoy my loyal generosity.

Confucius said, "People may have the finest talents, but if they are arrogant and stingy, their other qualities are not worthy of consideration.

What good are kindness, self-sacrifice, energy, and a sense of responsibility if they are so jealously guarded that only one's brothers and sisters may benefit from them? —Melita Maschmann