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Quotes About Generosity

Giving should be a part of your routine, just like working out, eating, and sleeping.
~ M. Night Shyamalan
What need is there to say more? The childish work for their own benefit, The Buddhas work for the benefit of others. Just look at the difference between them.
~ Shantideva
The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is a fact that we can see.
~ Dalai Lama
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
~ W. Somerset Maugham
I think musicians and artists are the most philanthropic people I know. Their charity record of the music business would hold up to the work of anybody.
~ Glenn Frey
Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.
~ David Sarnoff
It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Growing up, I saw my dad do charity work for children with health issues. That had a profound effect on me.
~ David Boreanaz
The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
~ Amelia Earhart
Love has been called the most effective motivational force in all the world. When love is at work in us, it is remarkable how giving and forgiving, understanding and tolerant we can be.
~ Charles R. Swindoll
Feeding the hungry is a greater work than raising the dead
~ Saint John Chrysostom
In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.
~ Clare Boothe Luce
You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.
~ Samuel Johnson
May your hands be an extension of your heart and may you do the work of love with them.
~ Aja Monet
When we work to end childhood hunger, we are giving our love to kids who need it so much they will never ask for it.
~ Beau Bridges
Creative work is not a selfish act or a bid for attention on the part of the actor. It's a gift to the world and every being in it. Don't cheat us of your contribution. Give us what you've got.
~ Steven Pressfield
I work very hard, but when God opens that door for you - when life opens that door for you, I should say - I think it's important to be giving, to return the love back.
~ Lady Gaga
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
~ Khalil Gibran
Love and serve the world through your work.
~ Gautama Buddha
Charity work shouldn't be bragged about. It's just something you're supposed to do...I do it because I feel like that's what God wanted me to do. It's as simple as that.
~ Roy Jones Jr.
I always bring cash for tips, and I never give less than $20. I used to work in a smoothie shop, so I know the value of a tip.
~ Megan Fox
God's Kingdom is a place of abundance where every generous act overflows its original bounds and becomes part of the unbounded grace of God at work in the world.
~ Henri Nouwen
When I work I do it from my heart. And my heart is that I bring love to the world. When I travel around the world I bring my love. I bring so much love in my heart. I hope you can feel that.
~ Jackie Chan
Let the good work go on. We must ever remember we are refining oil for the poor man and he must have it cheap and good.
~ John D. Rockefeller