Quotes About Generosity

Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks.

Charity begins at home, but should not end there.

He that plants trees loves others beside himself.

Large was his bounty, and his soul sincere,Heav'n did a recompense as largely send:He gave to mis'ry all he had, a tear,He gain'd from Heav'n ('twas all he wish'd) a friend.

The generous spark extinct revive, Teach me to love and to forgive, Exact my own defects to scan, What others are, to feel, and to know myself a Man. - Hymn to Adversity

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

Alas for the rarityOf Christian charityUnder the sun!

The one single use of things which we call our own is that they might be his who hath need of them.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

Service without seeking any return characterizes the Ultimate Reality.

A great many people in North America believe that Canada and the United States, in a moment of inexplicable generosity, gave treaty rights to Native people as a gift. Of course, anyone familiar with the history of Indians in North America knows that Native people paid for every treaty right, and in some cases, paid more than once. The idea that either country gave First Nations something for free is horseshit.

There is no greater wisdom than kindness

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.

In the following pages I offered nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense; and have no other preliminaries to settle with the reader, then that he will divest himself of prejudice and preposession, and suffer his reason and his feelings to determine for themselves; but he will put on, or rather that he will not put off the true character of a man, and generously in enlarge his views beyond the present day.

She didn't have enough patience to try to explain to Christine the proper way to think about money. Among the old people, a person's status had never been determined by how much wealth he could accumulate, but how much he brought back to give away.

The unique point of view from which the author can present the world to those freedoms whose concurrence he wishes to bring about is that of a world to be impregnated always with more freedom. It would be inconceivable that this unleashing of generosity provoked by the writer could be used to authorize an injustice, and that the reader could enjoy his freedom while reading a work which approves or accepts or simply abstains from condemning the subjection of man by man. In

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

Politeness and consideration for others is like investing pennies and getting dollars back.

To love one person with a private love is poor and miserable: to love all is glorious.

Love studies not to be scanty in its measures, but how to abound and overflow with benefits. He that pinches and studieth to spare is a pitiful lover, unless it be for other's sakes Love studieth to be pleasing, magnificent and noble, and would in all things be glorious and divine unto its object. Its whole being is to its object, and its whole felicity in its object, and it hath no other thing to take care for. It doth good to its own soul while it doth good for another.

The more helpful we are to others, the more like we are to God.

all. First, it concerns rich men. You would not think that it would be necessary to tell rich men to be content, whom God has blessed with great possessions, but, instead, persuade them to be humble and thankful. But

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.