Quotes About Generosity

I know how closely most of us tend to hold on to whatever cache of patience we've managed to amass over a lifetime and I appreciate your squandering some of your cherished stash here.

Perhaps the greatest thing you can achieve is to love without demanding anything in return.

People like to give the sort of presents they

Be more generous to others than you would ever expect anyone to be to you.

I think people who truly can live a life in music are telling the world, 'You can have my love, you can have my smiles. Forget the bad parts, you don't need them. Just take the music, the goodness, because it's the very best, and it's the part I give most willingly

That's it really; it's all love, whichever way you look at it, it's all love. How much you can get from each other and that's determined by how much you're giving to each other. But it all starts within our self and then it spreads to those around us, good and bad. But basically, that's it, I think it's the love that we can generate is equal to the love that we get back ... Amen.

Thou hast given so much to me, Give one thing more, — a grateful heart; Not thankful when it pleaseth me, As if Thy blessings had spare days, But such a heart whose pulse may be Thy praise.

Poverty is no sin.

He that lends, gives.

All worldly joys go less To the one joy of doing kindnesses.

We must act on what we know. I take as my guide the hope of a saint: In crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity.

If you ask him for a shilling, or two or three shillings, he'll give freely freely, but if he know that he got to spend a few hundred dollars, which is no more than three shillings compare to what he got, boys, he will cry buckets of tears.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

Many times have I stolen gems from the depths And presented them to my beloved shore, He takes in silence but still I give For he welcomes me ever. Khalil Gibran Song of the Wave

The occasional kindness will spare you all sorts of trouble down the road.

Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

An honest kiss, a little kindness, everyone deserves that much, however big or small.

Never refuse a cup of wine or a horn of ale," Ser Arlan had once told him, "it may be a year before you see another.

They laughed at him, but they didn't know, they didn't know about all the nice things he had. No one knew. No one. Only someday he'd see somebody different, somebody to give his things to, somebody who would give him all their things. Yes. He'd like that. He'd know her when he saw her. He'd know just what to say.

He was not born wealthy. In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

In the world as I have seen it, no man grows rich by kindness.

Places like that, the people have no silver, but they feed us at their own tables, and the children follow us everywhere

Only a starving man asks bread from a begger

Know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself