Quotes About Generosity

I think, is a cultural thing, too. You know, everyone wants to see the baby. Everybody's bringing gifts for the baby.

This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.

[she] had a great reputation for unselfishness because she was always giving up a lot of things she didn't want.

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

People really want to do something good. You just have to show them where it is.

We don't live abundant and happy lives in isolation or by being takers. So by giving away your purpose to others, you will find that others want to GIVE to you, too.

God wants no one to leave our presence empty handed.

Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.

One of the problems with being relatively conscious and human, is that you want to help everybody.

When you come from 'love,' you do certain things because you are love, not because you want to have love.

Be kind to yourself and to others. Treat others the way you would want to be treated. I was told that every day of my childhood.

People like givers, people want to help givers. I get stuff all the time.

I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.

We have a new generation of very rich people who want to do more with their money than buy a lot of expensive toys. They want to live meaningful lives.

Life isn't just about what you can have; it's about what you have to give, what kind of person do you want to be?

I have always been interested in giving back, and I wouldn't want to know a life without giving.

I may not give you as much love as you want, but I will give you as much as I have.

War and courage have done more great things than charity. Not your sympathy, but your bravery has saved the unfotunate.

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

You will be as much value to others as you have been to yourself.

It was like a life-line to a sinking man. It seemed to bring hope where there was none. The generosity of it was beyond our belief.

All of man's wars are based upon TAKING. There could be no war based upon GIVING.

I call a complete and generous education that which fits a man to perform justly, skillfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.

You were the best birthday present I ever got." "Thank you." "I wanted to give you something back, but I've got to warn you that it's not half as good as my present. Even so, you have to keep it." "All right." He draped the pink bow around his neck and grinned. "Happy birthday, Rosebud.