Quotes About Generosity

The liberal soul shall be made fat.

Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

Make people happy and there will not be half the quarreling, or a tenth part of the wickedness there now is.

The way to happiness: keep your heart free from hate, your mind from worry. Live simply, expect little, give much. Fill your life with love. Scatter sunshine. Forget self, think of others. Do as you would be done by. Try this for a week and you will be surprised.

A happy life is made up of little things . . . a gift sent, a letter written, a call made, a recommendation given, transportation provided, a cake made, a book lent, a check sent.

Joy increases as you give it, and diminishes as you try to keep it for yourself. In giving it, you will accumulate a deposit of joy greater than you ever believed possible.

If you have made another person on this earth smile, your life has been worthwhile.

The love we give away is the only one we keep.

The issue is not so much being loved but being loving, which leads to the same wonderful feeling you experience when someone loves you.

Shame and guilt are noble emotions essential in the maintenance of civilized society, and vital for the development of some of the most refined and elegant qualities of human potential - generosity, service, self-sacrifice, unselfishness and duty.

Nobody does nothing for nobody for naught.

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

If a person gives you his time, he can give you no more precious gift.

There is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decisions, the day's generous utterances and the day's good deed.

Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can.

You have not lived a perfect day, even though you have earned your money, unless you have done something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow human being, let me do it now.

Steal the hog, and give the feet for alms.

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them.

When thou doest alms, let not thy left hand know what they right hand doeth.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

When you look at the world in a narrow way, how narrow it seems! When you look at it in a mean way, how mean it is! When you look at it selfishly, how selfish it is! But when you look at it in a broad, generous, friendly spirit, what wonderful people you find in it.

We are made kind by being kind.