Quotes About Generosity

My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is.

Give One, Get One generated about 100,000 zero-dollar laptops. Somebody else paid for them, but from the recipient's point of view, that's zero.

Programming is not a zero-sum game. Teaching something to a fellow programmer doesn't take it away from you. I'm happy to share what I can, because I'm in it for the love of programming.

The organization I founded in 1993, Camfed (the Campaign for Female Education), was in large part inspired by the generosity shown to me by a community in a village in Zimbabwe. During my visit to Mola to research girls' exclusion from education, the people of Mola fed me, shaded me, walked and talked with me for hours each day.

Once you are wealthy, you are in a nice comfort zone and want to stay there. So I always look in the mirror and ask, is my philanthropy making the world a more just and fair place?

Every year, we ask our donors to dig deeper. And every year, they gladly, generously comply. It is now up to us to find ways and means to forestall the day when they cannot - or will not. Or the consequences for people in war zones could be disastrous.

(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.

The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good.

Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.

What man is there of you, whom if his son ask bread, will he give him a stone?

You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

That charity which longs to publish itself, ceases to be charity.

I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in.

Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins.

I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness; glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

If thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink.

If of thy mortal goods thoU art bereft, And from thy slender store two loaves alone to thee are left, Sell one, and with the dole Buy hyacinths to feed thy soul.

A good meal makes a man feel more charitable toward the whole world than any sermon.