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Quotes About Generosity

Save the world, not your money
~ Thad Guidry
And In the End, the Love We Take Is Equal To the Love We Make.
~ The Beatles
Finally.., The love we take is equal to the love we make...!
~ The Beatles
Be kind to everyone.
~ The Blonde Jon
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger give, if thou art asked for little by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
~ The Dhammapada
Liberality attended with mild language; learning without pride; valour united with mercy; wealth accompanied with a generous contempt of it?these four qualities are with difficulty acquired.
~ The Hitopadesa
The man who neither gives in charity nor enjoys his wealth, which every day increases, breathes, indeed, like the bellows of a smith, but cannot be said to live.
~ The Hitopadesa
What a rich man gives and what he consumes, that is his real worth.
~ The Hitopadesa
Many candles can be kindled from one candle without diminishing it.
~ The Midrash
God said: you must teach, as I taught, without a fee.
~ The Talmud
He that gives should never remember, he that receives should never forget.
~ The Talmud
There are three things which, in great quantity, are bad, and, in little, very good: leaven, salt, and liberality.
~ The Talmud
Verily great grace may goWith a little gift; and precious are all things that come from friends.
~ Theocritus
The secret of human happiness is not in self-seeking but in self-forgetting.
~ Theodor Reik
The decay of giving is today matched by a hardness towards receiving.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Often they win sympathy by a certain good-naturedness, a kindly involvement in other people's lives: selflessness as speculation.
~ Theodor W. Adorno
Love is the only thing you can really give in all this world. When you give love, you give everything.
~ Theodore Dreiser
The miser, starving his brother's body, starves also his own soul, and at death shall creep out of his great estate of injustice, poor and naked and miserable.
~ Theodore Parker
We must exercise the largest charity towards the wrong-doer that is compatible with relentless war against the wrong-doing. We must be just to others, generous to others, and yet we must realize that it is a shameful and a wicked thing not to withstand oppression with high heart and ready hand.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
This is the answer! The answer is not in getting and keeping, but in getting and giving. The answer is not in saving and preserving, but in growing and changing. The answer is not in making things stop, but in making things go. The answer is not in covering and hiding, but in touching and sharing. The answer is not in thinking, but in feeling. The answer is not in death, but love. Not death, but life. Not death!
~ Theodore Sturgeon
you are there to meet the needs of others. You are there to serve others. You are there to give. You are there to sacrifice.
~ Thom S. Rainer
Vibrant and living churches look after the interests of others. They are concerned for their communities. They open the door for others.
~ Thom S. Rainer
Did you get that? Vibrant and living churches look after the interests of others. They are concerned for their communities. They open the door for others.
~ Thom S. Rainer
Be thankful for the least gift, so shalt thou be meant to receive greater.
~ Thomas a Kempis