Quotes About Generosity

Jack Benny's so cheap he wouldn't give you the parsley off his fish.

None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.

Calculating the value of a life in days and years is a fools arithmetic; the only true measure of our lives is how richly we spend our allotted time, and how much of ourselves we share along the way.

The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.

There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The way is to be kind.

Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.

I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said "yes," when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else.

There are three ways to ultimate success: The first way is to be kind. The second way is to be kind. The third way is to be kind.

All His life long He had yearned to be giving. Now, under any circumstances, He always had something to give, ten words and a gesture; and people seemed so thankful for it. He was glad.

To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better.

No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

Beggars should be abolished. It annoys one to give to them, and it annoys one not to give to them.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

According to Buddhist philosophy, nothing ever really belongs to you. Even so, you can still give stuff away.

We think we're doing our jobs for the paycheck, but Dogen says that's an illusion. The underlying, original reason we work is to give to others. The payment you receive is a kind of karmic payback for the service you give.

Verl waved both hands. "No, stop, please, no gift is required. My lady, a soft glance, a kind word, these more than suffice. Your very existence leaves me forever indebted." "You get that I'm fifteen?

Don't eat more than you want," Grandma said. Kendra realized she had been toying with her pancakes, procrastinating the next bite. "I'm kind of tense," Kendra confessed, eating another forkful, hoping her face looked pleasant as she chewed. "I'll have hers," Seth offered, having almost finished his stack. "When

Live a fruitful life. Resist evil. Give more than you take. Help others do likewise. The rest will take care of itself.

Bitterness is repaid more often than kindness.

You're always willing to give others more charity than you extend yourself.

The best and truest duty of a person is to add to the world. To create, and not destroy.

Generosity is not a free pass for people to take advantage of us, treat us unfairly, or be purposefully disrespectful and mean.

What is the hypothesis of generosity? What is the most generous assumption you can make about this person's intentions or what this person said?