Quotes About Generosity

Thank God for your life today. For your health, your family, or your home. Many people don't have these things and are praying for what you take for granted.

In the old days a man made a name for himself by being generous and wise, but now he has nothing to be generous with, no jobs, no money; and as far as our traditional wisdom is concerned, our men are being told by the white missionaries, teachers, and employers that it is merely savage superstition.

When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.

You have not stolen my heart, but I give it freely

One day he gave me a handful of sky when he saw me gazing up at the clouds, just to see me smile. I put it in my pocket.

And yet, when we stopped at the last hamlet and I saw him embrace the elders and leave gifts, saw the hope that he left behind, and remembered it was he who had saved Kaden from the savagery of his own kind, I wondered if anything I felt in my gut really mattered.

One of the first things which Comfort remembered being told was that she had been named for her Aunt Comfort, who had given her a gold ring and a gold dollar for her name. Comfort could not understand why. It always seemed to her that her aunt, and not she, had given the name, and that she should have given the ring and the dollar; but that was what her mother had told her. "Your Aunt Comfort gave you this beautiful gold ring and this gold dollar for your name," said she.

Big cities can have big hearts.

When people rally together to support a good cause, it shouts a second message to the community at large, that people can work unselfishly together if our eyes are on God and on those in need, rather than on our own advancement.

Giving in its purest form is done with a heart that says I wish it were more, and I expect nothing in return.

If I have an ambition, it's to leave the world a little better than I found it.

A'ohe lokomaika'i i nele i ke p?na'i [No kind deed ever lacks its reward]

Janie gave me a pen. Mrs. Tadworth gave me a doll. Matt

There is an Angel called Charity who often would save our hearts a great deal of trouble if we would but let her in.

a half-dollar's worth will sometimes do for the poor what hundreds of dollars may fail to do for the rich; it makes them happy and grateful

Do I grudge my lord the herb that will heal him, because another gathers it? No, let him be healed.

we must be active and earnest in kindness, not merely passive and inoffensive. LITTLE THINGS, 1852.

For myself I am certain that the good of human life cannot lie in the possession of things which for one man to possess is for the rest to lose, but rather in things which all can possess alike, and where one man's wealth promotes his neighbor's.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us. R. W. EMERSON.

Civility costs nothing and buys everything

There is always reason to care. There is always reason to give. It is what we are here to do.

In aid, the proper attitude is one omitting gratitude.

Generosity with strings is not generosity; It is a deal.

We should not, certainly, punish other people in general because of an apparent lack of gratitude on the part of some. It could be that people are so busy they seem ungrateful or they actually are thankless! But this is OK I'd rather be nice to someone spoiled than mean to someone who really could use a hand.