Quotes About Generosity

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

You can never expect too much of yourself in the matter of giving yourself to others.

Isn't it better to have men be ungrateful, than to miss a chance to do good?

Better to expose ourselves to ingratitude than fail in assisting the unfortunate.

Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give, I give myself.

Simply give others a bit of yourself; a thoughtful act, a helpful idea, a word of appreciation, a lift over a rough spot, a sense of understanding, a timely suggestion. You take something out of your mind, garnished in kindness out of your heart, and put it into the other fellow's mind and heart.

It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well.

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about others and serving others.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

To devote a portion of one's leisure to doing something for someone else is one of the highest forms of recreation.

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

What we frankly give, forever is our own.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.

Happiness ... consists in giving, and in serving others.

Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent. But when we work for others, our efforts return to bless us.