Quotes About Generosity

There are eight rungs in charity. The highest is when you help a man to help himself.

The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.

Only by being a man or woman for others does one become fully human.

With his blessings from above, serve it generously with love. One man, one wife, one love, through life.

Oh! how happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them!

Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred

A man is never as big as when he is on his knees to help a child.

A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.

Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

It takes a strong man to accept somebody else's children and step up to the plate another man left on the table.

You are to become a creator, not a competitor; you are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other man will have more than he has now.

He is the richest man in the esteem of the world who has gotten the most. He is the richest man in the esteem of Heaven who has given the most.

In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

The value of a man resides in what he gives

A man should make all he can, and give all he can.

The real make of a man is how he treats people who can do nothing for him.

The ideal man takes joy in doing favors for others.

The rich man never really gives anything, he only distributes part of the surplus. It is the person of moderate means who really gives.

The modest man has everything to gain, and the arrogant man everything to lose; for modesty has always to deal with generosity, and arrogance with envy.

Give a man a fish, feed home for a day. Teach a man to fish, feed for a lifetime.

I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.

These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.

No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.