Quotes About Generosity

Money-getters are the benefactors of our race. To them ... are we indebted for our institutions of learning, and of art, our academies, colleges and churches.

It was said of Miss Letitia that when money came into her possession it went out of circulation.

Kindness eases everything almost as much as money does.

A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

I don't go looking for somewhere to spend my money. You can step on a tube of toothpaste for a week, if you have to. I spend what I need to and give it away.

My task is how I can learn to make money from that by giving first. I'm always constantly looking at how I can do more and more for less and less.

Making money is a happiness. And that's a great incentive. Making other people happy is a super-happiness.

I really get a smile that people think they have a right to even suggest how I give my money away. I have no mandate to give a dime to anybody.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

And money is not something to go mad about ... Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures. Money is to make happy the lives of children.

Wise people know that all their money belongs to God.

When I ask people to give, I can't be on television if they don't; I can't help people, if I don't - I mean, it takes money.

The only noble thing a man can do with money is to build a schooner.

Money that may never be spent is nothing but a miser's toy. Saving as an exercise in self-denial is an invalid goal, a sick use of money.

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

Donate time, food, or money to organizations that fight the good fight. We can act individually for the collective good. We can all do something.

I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.

And it's very, very funny When you've lots and lots of money To be horrible to those with none! Be horrible to those with none!

All the messages our kids are getting is money-taking, not giving.

Jimmy Carr is a very nice man who works incredibly hard and has donated loads of money to good causes. He's done absolutely nothing illegal.

We all like to see everybody make a profit... a very little.

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

The first duty of man is to support himself - to see to it that he does not become a burden. His next duty is to help others if he has a surplus, and if he really believes they deserve to be helped.

Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.