Quotes About Generosity

Live for yourself and you will live in vain; Live for others, and you will live again.

Develop your talent, man, and leave the world something. Records are really gifts from people. To think that an artist would love you enough to share his music with anyone is a beautiful thing

You can't steal a gift. Bird [Charlie Parker] gave the world his music, and if you can hear it you can have it.

I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.

When you get to the top, don't forget to send the elevator down for the next guy.

I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.

A lighthouse is not interested in who gets its light! It just gives it without thinking! Giving light is its nature!

The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.

Nature has endowed each of us with a capacity for kindly feelings: let us not squander them on others.

There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

The very nature of kindness is to spread. If you are kind to others, today they will be kind to you, and tomorrow to somebody else.

Learning to love unselfishly is not an easy task. It runs counter to our self-centered nature.

It is very hard to dislike someone you have helped

When you don't give money, it shows that you have the devil's nature.

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

The life, which others pay, let us bestow, And give to fame what we to nature owe.

My chief study all my life has been to lighten misfortunes and multiply pleasures, as far as human nature can.

Nature gives all, without reservation, and loses nothing; man or woman, grasping all, loses everything.

To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity.

Self-giving means that we have to understand the nature of giving. When most people give, they give expecting a return on their investment.

A man shall never be enriched by envy.

Good nature is, of all moral qualities, the one that the world needs most, and good nature is the result of ease and security, not of a life of arduous struggle.

Nature in denying us perennial youth has at least invited us to become unselfish and noble.