Quotes About Generosity

Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind.

God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Vi løskjøper oss fra synet av elendighet ved hjelp av kobberskillinger, men det er fordyrt fortiggerenogfor billig for oss

Patience "Love suffereth long." Kindness "And is kind." Generosity "Love envieth not." Humility "Love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up." Courtesy "Doth not behave itself unseemly." Unselfishness "Seeketh not its own." Good temper "Is not provoked." Guilelessness "Taketh not account of evil." Sincerity "Rejoiceth not in unrighteousness, but rejoiceth with the truth.

I wonder why it is we are not all kinder than we are! How much the world needs it. How easily it is done. How instantaneously it acts. How infallibly it is remembered

The greatest thing," says some one, "a man can do for his Heavenly Father is to be kind to some of His other children.

Patience; kindness; generosity; humility; courtesy; unselfishness; good temper; guilelessness; sincerity—these make up the supreme gift, the stature of the perfect man.

Stephen Grellet wrote: 'I shall pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

There is a difference between trying to please and giving pleasure. Give pleasure. Lose no chance of giving pleasure; for that is the ceaseless and anonymous triumph of a truly loving spirit. "I shall pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer it or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

An author ought to consider himself, not as a gentleman who gives a private or eleemosynary treat, but rather as one who keeps a public ordinary, at which all persons are welcome for their money.

To do more for the world than the world does for you - that is success.

Givers have to set limits because takers rarely do.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

It is easy to give; it is harder to make giving unnecessary.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough of is love.

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

Love is not getting, but giving

There is a loftier ambition than to stand high in the world. It is to step down and lift mankind a little higher.

The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.

Give what you have. To some it may be better than you dare think.

In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in.