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Quotes About Generosity

Whether we are poor or rich or somewhere in between, we honor the Lord with all he has placed in our care. We open our hands to the poor and share the joy of generous Christian giving.
~ Kimberly Hahn
Accept the gift and honor the giver.
~ Mark Deklin
Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion.
~ Francis Bacon
The greatest honor of a man is in doing good to his fellow men, not in destroying them.
~ Thomas Jefferson
If you've given a dollar, you are part of the Marathon of Hope .
~ Terry Fox
I will continue to distribute blankets, sleeping bags, warm clothing and food on a regular basis, in the hope that my modest efforts will give some comfort to those people we are able help.
~ Mohamed Al-Fayed
You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.
~ Bob Dylan
We can begin to open our hearts to others when we have no hope of getting anything back. We just do it for its own sake.
~ Pema Chodron
Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I hope that each one of us will be a better husband or wife, kinder to one another, more thoughtful, more restrained in criticism, and more generous with compliments.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.
~ Tom Shadyac
I hope some day to make you all a cup of coffee. Alright, peace.
~ Johnny Depp
When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.
~ Marilynne Robinson
I hope one day I will host my own charity event to give back to society.
~ Yani Tseng
Faith hope and charity-if we had more of the first two we'd need less of the last.
~ Anonymous
The greatness of humanity is not in being human, but in being humane.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
If you want to do your best for future generations of humanity, for your friends and family, you must begin by taking good care of yourself.
~ Tarthang Tulku
I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth, and not ruled by it.
~ Pope Francis
After about ten years of study I ended up feeling so full and blessed that I wanted to give some of what was given to me back to humanity.
~ Brandon Bays
The gift of The Giver is something good and true and beautiful about what is good and true and beautiful in humanity.
~ Kathryn Jean Lopez
[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.
~ William Branch Giles
Humanity is filled with beautiful and positive and powerful people who care. I'm so glad we have people like Bill Gates and Warren Buffett in the world.
~ Judy Collins
Give what you possess.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.
~ Khalil Gibran