Quotes About Generosity

I was so happy that I wanted to be kind to everyone in the world.

Oh my dear, dear Stephen, how can I ever repay you for such unselfishness? But the happiness you hoped to win for me will never be mine.

rich old gentleman who lived at Scoatney Hall, five miles away, always sent us a ham at Christmas whether we paid the rent or not. He died last November and we have sadly missed the ham.

Doing things for others gives you a lovely glow. So does port, I said cynically.

A thousand pounds for clothes — when one thinks how long poor people could live on it! When one thinks how long we could live on it, for that matter! Oddly, I have never thought of us as poor people — I mean, I have never been terribly sorry for us, as for the unemployed or beggars; though really we have been rather worse off, being unemployable and with no one to beg from.

If you open your hand, you may receive everything.

Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance.

Selfishness comes from poverty in the heart, from the belief that love is not abundant. We become selfish when we believe that maybe tomorrow we won't have any pizza but when we know that our heart is a magical kitchen, we are always generous, and our love is completely unconditional.

I love to give charity, but I don't want to be charity. This is why I have so much trouble with grace.

Create reciprocity. I've never worried about giving away too much free information. In fact, the more generous a brand is, the more reciprocity they create. All relationships are give-and-take, and the more you give to your customers, the more likely they will be to give something back in the future. Give freely.

I talk about love, forgiveness, social justice; I rage against American materialism in the name of altruism, but have I even controlled my own heart? The overwhelming majority of time I spend thinking about myself, pleasing myself, reassuring myself, and when I am done there is nothing to spare for the needy.

I'm starting to wonder if the whole point of life is to be thankful and to live in such a way others are thankful for theirs as well.

El deseo innato de ser generoso. Ninguno de los deseos que he mencionado es malo. También es verdad que todos pueden potencialmente llevarse demasiado lejos, pero el hecho es que estamos diseñados para sobrevivir. Ahora bien, debiera consolarnos saber que la mayoría de los seres humanos tenemos un potencial tremendo para la generosidad.

Así pues, ¿cómo ofrecer sentido a nuestros clientes potenciales? De manera no muy diferente a como les brindamos la oportunidad de ser generosos, lo que hacemos es invitarlos a participar en algo que es más grande que ellos mismos. Un movimiento. Una causa que promover. Una lucha valerosa contra un malo real, ya sea de carne y hueso o una filosofía perjudicial.

Love can't be earned, it can only be given.

May we all be richly rewarded for putting our customers' stories above our own.

4.  Free Samples:

At StoryBrand, we certainly give away the "why," but we also give away an awful lot of the "how." It's never cost me to be generous with my customers.

Nieddu's gesture came of the same mysterious, irresistible urge to make things better for other people. For a relative, for a stranger: the urge to make things better was in our marrow.

Brunetti remembered when they found themselves with an excessive catch, they chose to give it away, rather than watch it rot.

Boris shrugged. "Who cares? If he is good to you? None of us ever find enough kindness in the world, do we?

The true mark of greatness is not stridency but magnanimity.

The Trumans usually celebrated Thanksgiving in the White House, but they spent most Christmases in Independence, quietly, with their families. And every year they instructed the kitchen help to prepare two full Christmas meals to go to two needy families in the District of Columbia—and to tell nobody.

True charity never envies others when they prosper, nor rejoices in the calamities of others when they are in trouble.