Quotes About Generosity

He tried to press the machine into my hands, but I stepped back. He was getting too close, and besides, I didn't know what this meant. Was he trying to sell me the machine? Was he giving it to me? I had heard that in America, if a girl accepted a ring from a boy, it meant she would marry him. What about accepting a tape-playing machine? Did it mean I might have to dance with him?

Help others for all the times that you have been ignored. Be kind to others, for all the times that you have been scorned.

What good is self-cultivation and wisdom if you just keep it for yourself? Knowledge is meant to be used, and if you can use it on behalf of others, you should.

I gave you things I wasn't sure I even had.

Endow your monuments according to your wealth. Even one day gives to eternity, An hour contributes to the future, God recognizes him who works for him.

If you acquire, give to your fellow; gobbling up is dishonest.

The cardinal virtues are self-control, moderation, kindness, generosity, justice, and truthfulness tempered by discretion

For no man has adherents on the day of woe. I gave to the beggar, I raised the orphan, I gave success to the poor as to the wealthy..

She loved him for his own sake, and therefore she would rather have suffered his absence if he flourished than to have enjoyed his presence if he languished; her sorrow over his avoidable languishing would overshadow her delight in his presence. For a lover, it is more blessed to give than to receive, even when giving pierces the lover's heart.

the true God gives so we can become joyful givers and not just self-absorbed receivers.

God doesn't give in order to acquire. God loves without self-seeking; that's at the heart of who God is. God gives for the benefit of others.

Faith is an expression of the fact that we exist so that the infinite God can dwell in us and work through us for the well-being of the whole creation. If faith denies anything, it denies that we are tiny, self-obsessed specks of matter who are reaching for the stars but remain hopelessly nailed to the earth stuck in our own self-absorption. Faith is the first part of the bridge from self-centeredness to generosity.

Sometimes when you sacrifice something precious, you're not really losing it. You're just passing it on to someone else.

A man's true wealth is the good he does in the world.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you w1sh to posess them. ThiS 1S the only way that you will be truly rich.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Know that the happiness we feel when we bring joy to others is the greatest happiness in the world.

He always wanted to return a part. "It is too much," he'd say, "too much by half; I am not worthy of your pity." Then, When I refused to take it back, he'd go, Before my eyes, and give it to the poor.

Every good act is charity. A man's true wealth hereafter is the good that he does in this world to his fellows.

When Lady Grizel gave Mrs Brock not one, but two grey flannel suits,

It's not salvation that I have to offer - but something more like hot soup.

I had a friend whose family had dinner together. The mother would tuck you in at night and make breakfast in the morning. They even had a spare bike for a friend. It just seemed so amazing to me.

No act of kindness is too small to be worth doing, it might mean nothing to you but it can mean the world to another.

Everybody deserves something good in there life atleast once