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Quotes About Generosity

Art is excitement which if we can't create ourselves, we can at least, through love of it, make available to others.
~ Vincent Price
money can be repaid, but not kindness such as yours.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
A vida só se dá para quem se deu.
~ Vinicius de Moraes
I got a family house for everybody to live in - my mom, my sisters and I. And I made sure that it has a separate apartment downstairs for myself. Family is more important than anything. We don't come from any money. So once I get them settled in, in a nice house, then I'll branch out and see if I can get something else.
~ Vinny Guadagnino
She told me one time that it wasn't the material things in life that mattered. She wouldn't be able to take them with her anyway. She said the only thing that counted was how much love you left behind." She smiled. "Your mama left behind an awful lot of love.
~ Unknown
Boredom is the legitimate kingdom of the philanthropic.
~ Virginia Woolf
sacrifice your life for the good of others—this is my wish and blessing.
~ Vivekananda
I feel that my relationship with Kasparov now is much the same as it had been before the match - good. As for his reaction, well it can't be nice to lose your title after so long, but he was very generous.
~ Vladimir Kramnik
By the time we got home, Grandma would be cooking breakfast, and Grandpa always slipped me something under the table—bacon, ham, a piece of toast. I learned to chew silently so that Grandma wouldn't say, "Are you feeding the dog again?" The tone in her voice when I picked up the word "dog" suggested to me that Grandpa and I needed to keep the whole operation quiet.
~ W. Bruce Cameron
There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.
~ W. Clement Stone
Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
~ W. Clement Stone
If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
~ W. Clement Stone
Be generous. Give to those you love; give to those who love you, give to the fortunate, give to the unfortunate — yes, give especially to those you don't want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have.
~ W. Clement Stone
For any mental or physical pain or suffering, regardless of how severe it might be, can in great part be neutralized by the satisfaction and joy of trying to help others. And that's worth living for.
~ W. Clement Stone
Sir, no man's enemy, forgiving allBut will his negative inversion, be prodigal.
~ W. H. Auden
Teetotalers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
~ W. H. Davies
Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
~ W. H. Davies
Thanksgiving, after all, is a word of action.
~ Unknown
La amabilidad es para los vivos. Los muertos ya no la necesitan.
~ Unknown
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
We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
~ W.H. Auden
I offer you what I have my Poverty
~ W.S. Merwin
Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.
~ Karin Fossum