Quotes About Generosity

It seems like an obligation if you have it so good. You have to spread the wealth.

I believe the best way to celebrate the holidays is to spread cheer and joy to others.

Spreading my love and extending my hand is what life's all about.

I just feel like I have when I started making a lot of money, I started spreading it out to people. Mickelson, the whole deal, the over-tip: if I see a guy that looks like he needs a hand out or something, I'll pull something out and give him something.

I think when I was in college I thought that, you know, like, sort of giving everyone an equal amount and spreading it around seems like a wonderful idea.

We are a richly blessed nation; let's not squander that - one of the worst things we can do is not gratefully acknowledge our abundances.

The spirit of St. Louis as I view it from my lens is a spirit of giving.

I have not seen a community more giving than St. Louis.

Kindness will always make things feel better, more stable.

Dr. King used to meet me outside the basketball stadium and give me $20 bills to get by.

At the end of the day, we play for the community. They come out there and parents spend their hard-working money to come support us and fill the stadium, so it's only right to give back.

I feel we all have a stake in our community as much as we do in our own spirits, and seeking avenues of generosity is the direct path to peace among us.

To me, there are saints every day. They stand up and help others and live for others and do things for others.

Britain is a nation proud to stand up for what is right and is generous in helping those in need.

American musicians are very giving - they have the highest standard in the world - but they are also very demanding in their conditions.

When you close down your borders, you're helping people build up a lot of hate toward you. That ungenerosity is not only not very attractive, from a moral and social standpoint, but also it's not very effective as a means of defending the country.

It's essential that we understand things like the free-rider problem, but we also need to understand that, fortunately, humans are a little nicer than economists give them credit for. Some people actually leave money at roadside fruit stands; some people give money to NPR so we can listen to it.

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself

Man should not consider his material possession his own, but as common to all, so as to share them without hesitation when others are in need.

No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.

There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself.

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.