Quotes About Generosity

I've always thought the most effective method of distribution is to give your work away.

We are called to plant these seeds in our world: to dare to tell every living soul that they already matter, that their seemingly mundane lives are a slowly unfolding mystery, that their small choices and acts of generosity are vitally important.

God asks for nothing but sharing of their love... what more do you want?

Even after all this time, the sun never says, 'You owe me.' Look what happens with a love like that. It lights the whole world.

The kind man feeds his beast before sitting down to dinner.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. —Aesop

I can give away everything I posses, but am without love, and I have no happiness

The manner of giving shows the character of the giver more than the gift itself. There is a princely manner of giving and accepting.

Who is open without levity; generous without waste; secret without craft; humble without meanness; bold without insolence; cautious without anxiety; regular, yet not formal; mild, yet not timid; firm, yet not tyrannical--is made to pass the ordeal of honor, friendship, virtue.

The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.

He scatters enjoyment who can enjoy much.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

Nobody needs a smile so much as the one who has none to give. So get used to smiling heart-warming smiles, and you will spread sunshine in a sometimes dreary world.

Wally gives gifts all the time, at the drop of a hat, little, odd ones. The gift not so much in the item itself as in the transaction, the act of passing something along.

I hate lending, or borrowing—if you want me to read a book, tell me about it, or buy me a copy outright. Your loaned edition sits in my house like a real grievance. And in lieu of lending books, I buy extra copies of those I want to give away, which gives me the added pleasure of buying books I love again and again." --Jonathan Lethem

There is a simple rule: practice a kind of generous selfishness. Give a book to a friend, but don't lend it, because you will never get it back. ~ James Wood, author of The Book Against God.

Jobs had been famously stingy when it came to charities, arguing that the most charitable thing he could do was increase Apple's value so that shareholders had more money to give away to the causes of their choice

leave the world a better place than we found it

A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.

Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing.

Anyone who gives you a cinnamon roll fresh out of the oven is a friend for life.

Never look a gift lion in the mouth.