Quotes About Generosity

Charity degrades those who receive it and hardens those who dispense it.

The more pleasure a universe can yield, other things being equal, the more beneficent and generous is its general nature; the more pains its constitution involves, the darker and more malign its total temper. To deny this would seem impossible, yet it is done daily; for there is nothing people will not maintain when they are slaves to superstition; and candor and a sense of justice are, in such a case, the first things lost.

heroism not as a purposeful display, but a natural manifestation of simple human goodness, generosity and courage.

I give away something up to $500 million a year throughout the world promoting Open Society. My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it.

I'm not doing my philanthropic work, out of any kind of guilt, or any need to create good public relations. I'm doing it because I can afford to do it, and I believe in it.

The best things in life are never rationed. Friendship, loyalty, love do not require coupons.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and the strong -- because someday you will have been all of these.

It's nice to be important , but more important ot be nice.

Il faut beaucoup de prodigues pour faire un peuple généreux, beaucoup d'indisciplinés pour faire un peuple libre, et beaucoup de jeunes fous pour faire un peuple héroïque

O miracle—thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands!

Overflowing with the milk of human kindness, the family had invited everyone they could think of, including people they cordially disliked.

To give is to receive...

Whatever you seize for yourself is worthless. Only what is given you has value.

And so, as generally happens, those who have most give least, and those with less somehow make shrift to share.

Cheap? If he was at the Last Supper, he would have asked for separate checks!

Guard within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness; know how to replace in your heart, by the happiness of those you love, the happiness that may be wanting to yourself.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

To undo a Jew is charity, and not sin.

Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.

A good man showeth favor, and lendeth.

Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.