Quotes About Generosity

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy's misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

Men's giving can only be to a certain extent: but God's is without limit.

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.

Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

The practice of charity will bind us...will bind all men in one great brotherhood.

Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.

All the kindness which a man puts out into the world works on the heart and thoughts of mankind.

Every life is meant to help all lives; each man should live for all men's betterment.

Many men are contemptuous of riches; few can give them away.

It is a very good world to live in, To lend or to spend, or to live in; but to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known.

That which a man acquires by contemplation he should spend in love.

To live is not to live for one's self; let us help one another.

The magi, as you know, were wise men wonderfully wise men who brought gifts to the Babe in the manger. They invented the art of giving Christmas presents.

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

What you do for an ungrateful man is thrown away.

The rich man who gives, steals twice over. First he steals the money and then the hearts of men.

The supply of good fellows is by no means in excess of the demand. A man has only to hoist the flag of hospitality to insure a very considerable amount of custom.

Strew gladness on the paths of men-You will not pass this way again.

Few men are both rich and generous; fewer are both rich and humble.

The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.

William Perkins said, "The end of a man's calling is not to gather riches for himself…but to serve God in the serving of man, and in the seeking the good of all men.

The gift finds the man attractive who stands with an empty bowl he does not own.

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.