Quotes About Generosity

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

Take the selfishness out of this world and there would be more happiness than we should know what to do with.

I am poor, and I am glad that i am, for i find that wealth makes more people mean than it duz generous.

Giv every one you meet, my boy, the time ov day and halff the road, and if that dont make him civil dont waste enny more fragrance on the cuss.

The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible.

The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity.

But there was another class of people, the real people. To this class they all belonged, and in it the great thing was to be elegant, generous, plucky, gay, to abandon oneself without a blush to every passion, and to laugh at everything else.

Oh no, Papa, Kitty objected warmly. Varenka adores her. And besides, she does so much good! Ask anyone you like! Everybody knows her and Aline Stah. Perhaps, he said, pressing her arm with his elbow. But it is better to do good so that, ask whom you will, no one knows anything about it.

Add your light to the sum of light.

So you make a sacrifice!' he threw special emphasis on the last word. 'Well, so do I. What could be better? We complete in generosity--what an example of family happiness!

I have learned that men live not by selfishness, but by love.

Nothing can make our life, or the lives of other people, more beautiful than perpetual kindness.

Here's what the happiness is: it's living for the others.

The most important and necessary human deed, for both doer and recipient, are those of which he does not see the results.

The dog gave the meat to the ass and the ass gave hay to the dog and both went hungry

Whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also; and if any man take away thy coat, let him have thy cloak also,

The only certain happiness in life is to live for others.

But there was a second kind of people, the real ones, to which they all belonged, for whom the main thing was to be elegant, beautiful, generous, bold, and gay, to give way unblushingly to every passion and to laugh at everything else.

It seems that Pharisee must have been such a man as I am. I, too, apparently have thought only of myself,—how I might have my tea, be warm and comfortable, but never to think about my guest. He thought about himself, but there was not the least care taken of the guest. And who was his guest? The Lord Himself. If He had come to me, should I have done the same way?

From that day the eldest princess quite changed toward Pierre and began knitting a striped scarf for him.

Money, in itself, is evil. And therefore he who gives money gives evil.

Every kind thing is a virtue. To give water to a thirsty person, or to pick up a stone from a road, or to convince your neighbors and friends that they should be virtuous, or to show a traveler his way, or to smile looking into your neighbor's face—all this is virtue. —MOHAMMED

Benefit performances, bad paintings and statues, philanthropic societies, Gypsies, schools, subscription dinners, carousing, the Masons, churches, books—no one and nothing met with refusal,

We don't love people so much for the good they have done us, as for the good we have done them.