Quotes About Generosity

Be unselfish in your love. Remember, you are not the cat.

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

The poor will always be with you.

This is one of the bitter curses of poverty: it leaves no right to be generous.

The poor always ye have with you.

He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the Lord.

Blessed is he that considereth the poor.

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once a minute something generous dies for want of it.

Thou who has given so much to me, give one thing more: a grateful heart.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single kind act is better than a thousand head-bowings in prayer.

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

He wouldn't give a duck a drink if he owned Lake Michigan.

Your luck is how you treat people.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in this world.

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. People who do not experience self-love have little or no capacity to love others.

One for the master, And one for my dame, And one for the little boy Who lives in the lane.

Him that makes shoes go barefoot himself.

I was a stranger, and ye took me in.

A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives, and not in what he is able to receive.

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.