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Quotes About Generosity

Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life.
~ Nikola Tesla
A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.
~ John Ruskin
I spent the first half of my life making money and the second half of my life giving it away to do the most good and the least harm.
~ Andrew Carnegie
God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.
~ Saint Augustine
Remember this-you can't serve God and Money, but you can serve God with money.
~ Selwyn Hughes
By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven.
~ John Rutledge
Borrow from your friends, and when they ain't got any more money, make new friends.
~ Irwin Corey
Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.
~ Mother Teresa
If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
~ Socrates
I'll tell ya, my wife and I, we don't think alike. She donates money to the homeless, and I donate money to the topless!
~ Rodney Dangerfield
Once you make a lot of money, it's incredibly enjoyable to give it away. It's a way to satisfy the soul.
~ Stanley Druckenmiller
I shovel [money] out, and God shovels it back...but God has a bigger shovel!
~ R. G. LeTourneau
I always give homeless people money, and my friends yell at me, 'He's only going to buy more alcohol and cigarettes.' And I'm thinking, 'Oh, like I wasn't?'
~ Kathleen Madigan
If there is anyone to whom I owe money, I'm prepared to forget it if they are.
~ Errol Flynn
It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.
~ Andrew Carnegie
What you keep for yourself, you lose. What you give away, you keep forever
~ Axel Munthe
I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.
~ Syd Barrett
Some people give time, some money, some their skills and connections, some literally give their life's blood . . . but everyone has something to give.
~ Barbara Bush
You know, if your parents didn't have you, they'd be living in a nicer home, driving a Mercedes-Benz, with money in the bank and a boat. But noooooo. They had to have you! You've got to give back!
~ Richard Simmons
Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around.
~ Brooke Astor
One says that money doesn't buy happiness. Without a doubt, one was speaking of the money of others.
~ Sacha Guitry
Forgiveness is the best charity. (It is easy to give the poor money and goods when one has plenty, but to forgive is hard; but it is the best thing if one can do it.)
~ Meher Baba
I'm 31 years old and can't complain about the money I make and the smiles I can create on people's faces.
~ Jeff Hardy
I don't believe in giving people money. In Sunday school [you learn] that if you teach a man to fish, you feed him for life; but you give him a fish, you feed him for a day.
~ Robert Kiyosaki