Quotes About Generosity

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need.

I love giving gifts and I love receiving them. I really like giving little kids extravagant gifts. You see their little faces light up and they get excited. If it's a really good gift, I love receiving it, like jewels, small islands.

For all the energy directed toward the stratagem of big city living, New Yorkers are never too distracted to respond to, and more often, proactively assist visitors. Tourists tracing the routes of subway maps with their fingers, squinting at street signs or staring at a slip of paper with confusion are typical recipients of our generosity. We know our city can be as challenging as it is fascinating, and we want visitors to have a good experience.

When we give freely, we feel full and complete; when we withhold, we feel small, petty, impotent, and lacking. We are meant to learn this great truth, that giving fulfills us, while withholding and trying to get causes us to feel empty and even more needy. This truth runs counter to our programming, which drives us to try to get something from others to fulfill our neediness, only to end up even more needy, grasping, lacking, and unfulfilled.

yo os pregunto, señor podestá, si él ha tomado de mí siempre lo que ha necesitado y le ha gustado, ¿qué debía hacer yo (o debo) con lo que me sobra? ¿Debo arrojarlo a los perros? ¿No es mucho mejor servírselo a un hombre noble que me ama más que a sí mismo que dejar que se pierda o se estropee?

Essere felici è già una bella cosa ma fare felici gli altri col fatto di essere felici noi è la cosa più bella del mondo.

I'm from Naples. I was born in a poor neighborhood and I always, in my heart, felt like it would be amazing to be able to adopt a child from Naples. I could give someone the opportunity I had. I would love to give back in that way and pay it forward.

It's never too late. We've come around to a better way of life with showing love and giving love. That's what matters.

I believed that was the point of real forgiveness: It was freely given. Grace-filled. Unsolicited.

If you forgive more than you can afford, you may find yourself impoverished in emotion afterward, with a lowered resistance to whatever happens after that.

You don't repay kindness with needless cruelty.

As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.

But what doesn't die is the love we give to others. There is no end to that.

Life isn't about getting what you want, it is about giving what you have.

We should only be concerned with being better for the world, not the world being better for us because the former is the way to achieving the latter and the world is already best for us.

It is ever true that he who does nothing for others, does nothing for himself.

Unsere Narrheiten bezahlen wir gar gerne selbst, zu unsern Tugenden sollen andere das Geld hergeben.

It's not what you gather, but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.

Giving back is as good for you as it is for those you are helping, because giving gives you purpose. When you have a purpose-driven life, you're a happier person.

MONEY is neither positive nor negative. It only AMPLIFIES what YOU already are. Be kind. Be loving. Be generous.

Generally speaking, the most miserable people I know are those who are obsessed with themselves; the happiest people I know are those who lose themselves in the service of others...By and large, I have come to see that if we complain about life, it is because we are thinking only of ourselves.

The best antidote I know for worry is work. The best cure for weariness is the challenge of helping someone who is even more tired. One of the great ironies of life is this: He or she who serves almost always benefits more than he or she who is served.

You are good. But it is not enough just to be good. You must be good for something. You must contribute good to the world. The world must be a better place for your presence. And the good that is in you must be spread to others....

Christmas means giving. The Father gave his Son, and the Son gave his life. Without giving there is no true Christmas, and without sacrifice there is no true worship.