Quotes About Generosity

If you love yourself there's plenty left for everyone else. You just have to deflect natsy things.

They were nothing like the French people I had imagined. If anything, they were too kind, too generous and too knowledgable in the fields of plumbing and electricity.

I think about my grandfather who's 89 years old, and the last thing he needs is more money out of his pocket.

Among my dad's generation, when you gave another man a pocketknife as a gift, it was a show of respect. I'll still give someone the knife out of my pocket.

It's very, very hard to be generous and compassionate if you haven't got a dollar in you back pocket to pay for it, to actually pay for those services that people need.

I don't want to lecture anybody, I would only say this to my fellow people would be to give, however small. Give what your pocket permits. I don't think a person who is giving Rs 10, is giving less than me.

I can really serve the audience instead of making this about me and about serving myself and my pocketbook.

One of my favorite passages in 'Leaves of Grass,' that breathless, exuberant poem so rich and full of innocence and joy and generosity and compassion, is 'Mannahatta.'

Philanthropy is all about sharing. If there's an opportunity to collaborate, we will. Collaborating just for finance is pointless. It has to be like a business collaboration.

People were very nice to me. They knew I didn't have the money to do figure-drawing classes, so they let me annex the figure-drawing classes that the animators had.

I know it sounds cliche, but to give back is important. Sometimes we're given so much, we need to do something for other people. I think that's really important.

We'd get these boxes of clothing in the mail, and my mom would say, 'What makes you think all this is for you? You've got a sister right behind you.' So then I realized, we're all in this together. We have to help each other.

I remember my dad, who coached football, would buy some of his players football shoes when they couldn't afford it.

Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.

While accepting donations, no one looks at the colour of money.

I never think people should do things for me. I think I should do things for others. That makes me more comfortable.

When you're in a position that you can comfortably give, you need to pay it forward.

If I'm doing something its coming from a kind heart.

We hope that others will also commit to giving generously and starting young.

I did commit to giving my first billion away.

I've always believed that it's important to give something back to the world and community.

I'm so proud to do it - there's nothing else I do that compares to 'Children in Need.'

I think compassion is an important quality in people in general.

We are a compassionate country.