Quotes About Generosity

I do not give lectures or a little charity. When I give I give myself.

He saw that true living was living for the sake of others. He was freed from the bondage of his awkward, inept, fearful self.

[The key to] life is not accumulation, it is about contribution.

I've had it with all stingy-hearted sons of bitches. A heart is to be spent.

Start small. Identify a few things around you that others need help with. Paul Newman started small. He grew up a few blocks from my home in Shaker Heights and sold lemonade on the corner. Now he sells lemonade all over the world, and most of the profits go to help children. The key here is to do something small with a big heart and stick with it.

Stephen G. Post

You cannot do all the good the world needs, but the world needs all the good you can do.

Because of that, the buzz and whisper is different. Both more hushed and more thrilled, like a formation of Oprah Winfreys are about to parachute down through the clouds, giving cars out to you, and you, and also you.

Selfishness is like a disease that suffocates our capacity to love. While love asks us to deny ourselves for the sake of another, selfishness demands we put ourselves first at their expense. When we choose to be self-centered, we become less kind and content—more needy, sensitive, and demanding. More unsatisfiable. Moodiness and impatience, laziness and irresponsibility, are only selfishness in disguise.

Surprise your children today by doing some unexpected act of kindness. As they take note of your gesture, ask them to do something kind for someone else that is also unexpected.

Everything is for your benefit so that, as grace extends through more and more people, it may cause thanksgiving to increase to the glory of God. (2 Cor. 4:15)

Love is an activity, not a feeling…True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish.

It is wrong to ask for more than you give freely. In this way, we come to resemble what we hate.

It is the poor man who clenches so tightly to the gold he is given—for fear of losing it. The man of wealth spends his gold freely to accomplish his will in the world. It is the same with life.

Where food is taken alone, the repast is meager," answered the ancient one affably. "Yet, where meat is shared among true companions of the hearth, the meal becomes a feast!

To be happy, make others happy.

Only when you give from the heart does it make the giving whole.

The more you give, the less you need.

Giving materialistically is the soft option, but when you give from what you do for others then your reward is immeasurable contentment.

If you truly want to help the poor, first become rich yourself.

Many wealthy people donate, and while the skeptical may claim that they do so for tax breaks, there is another reason involved … as a spiritual practice.

In order to receive in abundance ... give in abundance!

Even those who are materially poor have something to offer, and in doing so, open themselves up to the circular energy of generosity and abundance.

If you want to be loved, then learn to love back.