Quotes About Generosity

The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice. Win hearts, said Burleigh to Queen Elizabeth, and you have all men's hearts and purses.

Man should be judged by the deeds done to help his fellow man.

It is a sin directly against one's neighbour, since one man cannot over-abound in external riches, without another man lacking them.

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities on all.

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

Some men are heroes by nature in that they will give all that is in them without regard to the effort or to the personal returns.

I would give you everything of myself. I would give you more in two weeks than most men would give you in a lifetime.

There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

Christmas is a poor excuse every 25th of December to pick a man's pockets.

Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own.

Men leave their riches either to their kindred or their friends, and moderate portions prosper best in both.

A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

How can you give something to someone who has everything? If you think men are tough to shop for at Christmas, try God. God has everything except one thing, friends. God doesn't have friends.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

Men inadvertently comport themselves with nobility when they have grown accustomed to wanting nothing from others and always giving to them.

He that distributeth not That which he hath received-- His food, his drink, his sustenance-- Unto devotee, brahman, beggar, wayfarer-- Such a low man as he, they say, is like Unto a lack of rain.

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth, the sweat, the blood, the joy of his fellow men.

A lot of people measure a man by what he's got. I've decided to measure myself by what I can give up.

When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'.

The miserable man makes a peny of a farthing, and the liberall of a farthing sixe pence. [The miserable man maketh a penny of a farthing, and the liberal of a farthing sixpence.]

They that hold the greatest farmes, pay the least rent (applyed to rich men that are unthankful to God).