Quotes About Generosity

My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that?

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

These Yanks of Hal Steinbrenner's don't assault strangers; instead, they commit acts of grace. If you want to mark the difference between the reigns of George and Hal, just watch that twenty-second clip of Judge soft-tossing a ball to a ten-year-old boy in the bleachers.

Never expect God to do for you what you don't do to others.

Never expect God to do for you what you don't do for others.

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

My passion is to multiply all that God has given me and, in the process, give it back. And I would like to incite you to do the same. I do not want you to be the seed that fell along the path or was scattered in rocky places or was choked by weeds.

When we lose ourselves for others we ultimately find ourselves don't we? When we let go of our selfish inclinations, wel live life at a deeper, fuller level than would have ever imagined

I give lectures for money, but all the money goes to charity. So, I make no money from it.

friends to the dining hall as guests and pay for their food. I suspect that for some of these kids, that was the main meal they

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

Some of the swimmers, like the security guards from Peru or Nepal, they were so poor—they lived a hard life and sent all of their money home," Jay says. "The fact that someone would give them a cap or a two-dollar pair of goggles meant a lot." He paid for the gear out of his own pocket. The

BOOKS! I DON'T KNOW IF I EVER TOLD YOU THIS, BUT BOOKS ARE THE GREATEST GIFT ONE CAN GIVE ANOTHER

Do not withhold good from those to whom it is due, when it is in the power of your hand to do so.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

I began learning long ago that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

Before the end of the year, I think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.

No man whose vision is bounded by colour can come into contact with what is highest and best in the world. In meeting men, in many places, I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least. I have also found that few things, if any, are capable of making one so blind and narrow as race prejudice.

persons who posses sense enough to earn money have sense enough to know how to give it away

The one thing that is most worth living for—and dying for, if need be—is the opportunity of making some one else more happy and more useful.

My experience in getting money for Tuskegee has taught me to have no patience with those people who are always condemning the rich because they are rich, and because they do not give more to objects of charity.

In the first place, those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much suffering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.

I have found that the happiest people are those who do the most for others; the most miserable are those who do the least. I have also found that few things, if any, are capable of making one so blind and narrow as race prejudice.

Then very few persons have any idea of the large number of applications for help that rich people are constantly being flooded with.