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Quotes About Generosity

If you would know what the Lord God thinks of money you have only to look at those to whom he gives it.
~ Maurice Baring
Making money is fun but it's pointless if you don't use the power it brings.
~ John Bentley
When asked what he would do if he found a million dollars: "I would try to find the person that lost it and if he was poor - I'd give it back."
~ Yogi Berra
Not greedy of filthy lucre.
~ Bible
The milk of human kindness should be brought fresh to the table every morning.
~ Austin O'Malley
Good morning! What we have in mind is breakfast in bed for four hundred thousand.
~ Wavy Gravy
When you rise in the morning, form a resolution to make the day a happy one for a fellow creature.
~ Sydney Smith
You get to an age when there are really just two reasons to get up in the morning — for goodness sake and for heaven's sake.
~ Robert Breault
When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
~ Mother Teresa
As my mother says, You give back, you don't give up. You can always choose to help others. If you do, it will change you.
~ Susan Ford
Mom - the person most likely to write an autobiography and never mention herself.
~ Robert Breault
My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.
~ Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
I wanted to do something nice so I bought my mother-in-law a chair. Now they won't let me plug it in.
~ Henny Youngman
What can you say about a man, who on Mother's Day sends flowers to his mother-in-law, with a note thanking her for making him the happiest man on Earth?
~ Nancy Reagan
If you ever become a mother, can I have one of the puppies?
~ Charlie Pierce
I bought my mother-in-law a beautiful chair for Christmas, but she won't let me plug it in.
~ Milton Berle
Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
~ Thomas Aquinas
When people say money doesn't matter, it sure as hell does when you're able to show your mother a beach house and then hand her the keys to it. That was one of the happiest moments of my life.
~ Tony Robbins
Craving, not having, is the mother of a reckless giving of oneself.
~ Eric Hoffer
I told my mother-in-law my house is your house. So she sold it.
~ Henny Youngman
My mother-in-law was so mean she blinded herself just to get a free dog.
~ Gary Delaney
My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
~ Kary Mullis
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
~ Beatrice Wood
I was born on the kitchen table. We were so poor my mother couldn't afford to have me; the lady next door gave birth to me.
~ Mel Brooks