Quotes About Generosity

For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

To complain that life has no joys while there is a single creature whom we can relieve by our bounty, assist by our counsels or enliven by our presence, is... just as rational as to die of thirst with the cup in our hands.

Happiness is a by-product of helping others.

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

Money, or even power, can never yield happiness unless it be accompanied by the goodwill of others.

The genius of happiness is still so rare, is indeed on the whole the rarest genius. To possess it means to approach life with the humility of a beggar, but to treat it with the proud generosity of a prince; to bring to its totality the deep understanding of a great poet and to each of its moments the abandonment and ingenuousness of a child.

True happiness consists in making others happy.

I shall not pass this way again: Then let me now relieve some pain, Remove some barrier from the road, Or brighten some one's heavy load.

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

He who lives only for himself is truly dead to others.

Provision for others is a fundamental responsibility of human life.

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

Nothing has happened today except kindness.

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do for any fellow being, let me do it now ... as I shall not pass this way again.

I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other. ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

Without kindness, there can be no true joy.

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

He gives twice who gives promptly.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.