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Quotes About Generosity

Rejoicing in the good fortune of others is a practice that can help us when we feel emotionally shut down and unable to connect with others. Rejoicing generates good will.
~ Pema Chodron
What do we lose by another's good fortune? Let us celebrate with them, or strive to emulate them. That should be our desire and determination.
~ Sathya Sai Baba
Amassing of wealth is an opportunity for good deeds, not hubris
~ Thucydides
Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree.
~ John Wesley
Kind words and good deeds are eternal. You never know where their influence will end.
~ H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.
~ David Tennant
A good way to forget your troubles is to help others out of theirs.
~ Boonaa Mohammed
The good thoughts you send out to others will return to you multiplied.
~ Grenville Kleiser
I don't think you're much good, unless you're doing good to someone.
~ Rose Kennedy
Don't give until it hurts, give until it feels good.
~ Dennis Kimbro
When you put good will out there, it's amazing what can be accomplished.
~ Paul Walker
A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.
~ Frederick Lenz
Good will cannot flow toward you unless it flows from you.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.
~ David Schwimmer
I'm not about trying to get and get and get. I feel good when I get, but I kind of feel better when I give.
~ K'naan
I couldn't feel good about myself hanging out in Armani clothes when my girlfriend can't even pay her heating bill. I'd feel foul and I'd be embarrassed.
~ Shirley Manson
Everyone has to contribute to the common good. To not do so can be described in one word: selfish.
~ Randy Pausch
Doing good for the community is something that should be a part of who you are. The more you get, the more you should give back.
~ Mark Salling
The more you give, the more good things come to you.
~ Robert Muller
I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.
~ Thomas Jefferson
Gratitude is the joy that arises in response to God's good will toward us in all his gifts.
~ John Piper
If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Every man is a hero if he strives more for others than for himself alone.
~ Lloyd Alexander, The High King
When you wish # good for others, good things come back to you.
~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar