Quotes About Generosity

The Meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away

Practice loving those who do not love you. Feel for those who do not feel for you. Be generous to those who are generous only to themselves. If you heap hatred on your enemy, neither he nor you are able to perceive the inherent beauty of your soul.

To lay aside what you have in your head (selfish desires and ambitions); to freely bestow what you have in your hand; and never to flinch from the blows of adversity!

Teach them the quiet verbs of kindness, to live beyond themselves.

Generosity is the rarest of qualities in American writers.

the world needs more roses far more than it needs more basketball players.

While visiting Mali's capital, Ibn Battuta was received by the king, who was at that time Mansa Musa's son. Ibn Battuta was offended by the king's lack of generosity. The traveler complained that the king was miserly and instead of giving him "robes of honor and money," he offered Ibn Battuta … three cakes of bread, a piece of beef fried in native oil, and a calabash of sour curds.

What is given from the heart reaches the heart.

So let's obey the Golden Rule, and give unto others what we would have others give unto us, How? When? Where? The answer is: All the time, everywhere.

Some people are too tired to give you a smile. Give them one of yours, as none needs a smile so much as he who has no more to give.15

A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives you roses.

Forget yourself by becoming interested in others. Every day do a good deed that will put a smile of joy on someone's face.

You can be cured in fourteen days if you follow this prescription. Try to think every day how you can please someone.

Passarei por este caminho apenas uma vez. Por isso, se existe qualquer bem ou qualquer gesto de bondade que eu possa fazer em benefício de qualquer ser humano, que eu faça agora. Que eu não adie ou deixe de lado, pois não passarei aqui novamente.

Let's remember that the only way to find happiness is not to expect gratitude, but to give for the joy of giving.

Giving away credit is a magical multiplier

I'd have given him twice the cash if I had it on me.

individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage.

They are far more likely to return the favor.

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving I experience my strength, my wealth, my power.

Giving is more joyous than receiving, not because it is a deprivation, but because in the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

Tolerance is not indifference, but a generous regard and even provision for those who differ from us on points we deeply care about.

And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that always having all sufficiency in everything, you may have an abundance for every good deed" (2 Corinthians 9:8).

As you engage with others, ask Jesus to bless them. You can consciously will the peace, joy, and confidence that you are experiencing to pass from you, like "living waters," to those with whom you are interacting.