Quotes About Generosity

The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from him, the more good shall go from me.

Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

He is a good man, who can receive a gift well. We are either glad or sorry at a gift, and both emotions are unbecoming.

The person, whom you favored with a loan, if he be a good man, will think himself in your debt after he has paid you.

A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others.

A covetous man's penny is a stone.

A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen.

You are beginning to see that any man to whom you can do favor is your friend, and that you can do a favor to almost anyone.

Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.

If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

Because men believe not in Providence, therefore they do so greedily scrape and hoard. They do not believe in any reward for charity, therefore they will part with nothing.

One can love any man that is generous.

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

Go into the street, and give one man a lecture on morality, and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.

You can serve God and man in no more effective way than by getting rich; that is, if you get rich by the creative method and not by the competitive one.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm.

The wealthiest man among us is the best

When a poor man gives something, that is a sacrifice indeed. When a rich man gives something, it hardly rises to the same level.

Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.

A good-natured man has the whole world to be happy out of.