Quotes About Generosity

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

Giving is the business of the rich.

I think about what's the best way to serve people. In business, if you do more for others than anybody else does, you dominate. That's the bottom line.

Give up control and give it away ... The more you give your idea away, the more your company is going to be worth.

For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]

A true generous heart can never revolve majorly with monetary skills nor business acumen nor cunning mind.

A Rainmaker creates value for the benefit of all through commitment.

I bought cars for all six of my children

I often pay homeless people to come round and clean my car.

Caring is a reflex. Someone slips, your arm goes out. A car is in the ditch, you join others and push... You live, you help.

Because Elvis gave 'em cars, you think I'm cheap.

Unwise selfish people think only of themselves, and the result is confusion and pain. Wise selfish people know that the best thing they can do for themselves is to be there for others. As a result, they experience joy.

six ways of compassionate living: generosity, discipline, patience, enthusiasm, meditation, and prajna—unconditional wisdom.

May I enjoy happiness and the root of happiness. May you enjoy happiness and the root of happiness. May all beings enjoy happiness and the root of happiness.

Be kinder to yourself. And then let your kindness flood the world.

It had happened again. I had met another American whose generosity, it began to seem to me, gushed out of the spirit of this land.

The absurdity of a life that may well end before one understands it does not relieve one of the duty (to that self which is inseparable from others) to live it through as bravely and as generously as possible.

Living a minimally acceptable ethical life involves using a substantial part of our spare resources to make the world a better place. Living a fully ethical life involves doing the most good we can.

We need to get over our reluctance to speak openly about the good we do. Silent giving will not change a culture that deems it sensible to spend all your money on yourself and your family, rather than to help those in greater need—even though helping others is likely to bring more fulfillment in the long run.

Thomas Aquinas, the great medieval scholar whose ideas became the semi-official philosophy of the Roman Catholic church, wrote that whatever we have in "superabundance"—that is, above and beyond what will reasonably satisfy our own needs and those of our family, for the present and the foreseeable future—"is owed, of natural right, to the poor for their sustenance.

Asking people to give more than almost anyone else gives risks turning them off. It might cause some to question the point of striving to live an ethical life at all. Daunted by what it takes to do the right thing, they may ask themselves why they are bothering to try. To avoid that danger, we should advocate a level of giving that will lead to the greatest possible positive response.

Charity begins at home, the saying goes, and for many people, charity also stops at home, or not very far from it.

What you do for yourself, you're doing for others, and what you do for others, you're doing for yourself.

Community is more important than faith. Belonging is more important than belief. Gathering is more important than God. As the similar findings of American social psychologists Jesse Graham and Jonathan Haidt have confirmed, bonding with other humans is the driving engine of increased charity and generosity, not believing in a deity.