Quotes About Generosity

I have often heard persons condemned for not giving away money, who, to my own knowledge, were giving away thousands of dollars every year so quietly that the world knew nothing about it.

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

think I began learning that those who are happiest are those who do the most for others. This lesson I have tried to carry with me ever since.

Whatever we possess becomes of double value When we have the opportunity of sharing it with others.

The small courtesies sweeten life; the greater ennoble it.

When we get tired of enjoying all the pleasures within our reach, we have still a resource in thinking of others that are not.

one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind than clever.

Jeff, one day you'll understand that it's harder to be kind that clever

It has always seemed strange to me…. The things we admire in men—kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding, and feeling—are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest—sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism, and self-interest—are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second." —John Steinbeck, Cannery Row

PSA: The rich are very good at using generosity to get what they want.

If you are reading this, you were born in the top one percent of history's population, no question about it. You've experienced luxuries that painfully few people in the history of mankind could have even imagined. Yet instead of appreciating that, instead of doing more to help those beneath us, we attack those who got even luckier for not doing enough.

When a father gives to his son, they both laugh. When a son gives to his father, they both cry. —Yiddish proverb

Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives.

Older Scout: [narrating] Neighbors bring food with death, and flowers with sickness, and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a knife, and our lives.

Kad neko umre susedi donose hranu, cve?e kad se neko razboli, a izme?u toga malo šta. Bu je bio naš sused. Poklonio nam je dve lutkice od sapuna, pokvareni sat na lancu, dve parice koje donose sre?u, i naše živote. Ali susedi vra?aju uzdarjima. Mi u drvo nikada nismo vratili ono što smo izvadili iz njega; mi njemu nismo dali ništa, i ja se rastužih zbog toga.

Neighbors bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbor. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good-luck pennies, and our lives. But neighbors give in return. We never put back into the tree what we took out of it: we had given him nothing, and it made me sad. I

Neighbours bring food with death and flowers with sickness and little things in between. Boo was our neighbour. He gave us two soap dolls, a broken watch and chain, a pair of good luck pennies, and our lives.

Only when he was working on his second glass did he remember to offer me some of this potable aqua regia.

My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.

Nature grants its beauty to us all, drawing no line between rich and poor.

Kindness was one of the things presently (or permanently) in short supply in the world.

Here, he said, get yourself some healthy food. You look awful. I said he had done more than enough for me and that I couldn't accept money on top of everything else, but he refused to take it back. It's not money, he said, it's my feelings. Don't think about it too much, just take it. All I could do was thank him and accept the money.

I forgot my eraser," I told her, "so if you have an extra, could you let me borrow it?" She took her eraser, broke it in two, and gave me half. And smiled broadly. Like the saying goes, in that instant I fell in love.

The world is full of happiness, and plenty to go round, if you are only willing to take the kind that comes your way." Which is a roundabout way