Quotes About Generosity

Britain is a compassionate nation.

I know that if I concentrate on making other people shine, I will shine. It is really about the other person, never about you.

But, as always, Mr. Rooney would come over and shake your hand and congratulate you on a good game, no matter what the situation was.

You've got to invest your own time, invest your own resources into creating a better world, not only for yourself but for the people you surround yourself with.

Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.

We are surrounded every day by countless acts of immeasurable kindness and goodwill.

Some people have a hard time getting rid of stuff. If that's you, pray for God to give you the courage to get rid of things you don't really need or things He wants you to give away. This will help keep your surroundings organized and clutter-free.

Supporting other girls and other women in your surroundings - it could be anything, not necessarily music - it is you giving back to the world.

Greed is a sin because humans are social creatures. And they simply cannot survive without the opposite of greed, which is cooperation.

Every day should be #GivingTuesday when it comes to surviving natural catastrophes and man-made disasters.

Above Hilo, broad lands sweeping up cloudwards, with their sugar cane, kalo, melons, pine-apples, and banana groves suggest the boundless liberality of Nature.

Alice Adams wrote a sweet note to me after my first novel came out when I was 26, and I was so blown away that I sent her a bunch of stamps by return mail. I have no idea what I was thinking. It was a star-struck impulse.

I've always been attracted to girls whose hearts are the biggest thing about them. People can be very sweet and kind to others who can do a lot for them. I want to find a girl who will be the same person to those who can't do anything for her in return.

Orlando is such a kind person. He's so generous and one of us, 'us' meaning a theater person. What a lot of people don't know about him is that, before 'Lord of the Rings,' he went to theater school like a lot of us. He is just really sweet and hard working.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

At first, learning to bake was purely selfish, but I quickly learned I can't eat every batch of cookies myself, so I would bake and eat what I wanted and give the rest away. I fell in love with feeding others as much as I loved eating sweets myself.

When I lost my friends, it was because I had used the power of giving on them recklessly. I swept into their lives with my big fat checkbook, and I erased years of obstacles for them overnight - but sometimes, in the process, I also accidentally erased years of dignity.

I've learned that when someone does something very kind and refuses payment, giving them an engraved Swiss Army knife is never refused!

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

The more sympathy you give, the less you need.

As a Scot, I instinctively feel a sympathy towards a culture which is based on generosity. It's very refreshing. Afghans think they're the best people in the world and their country is the best place in the world, and it's strange because you go there and it doesn't really look like it, and yet they assume that everybody else envies them.

I don't want to inspire people to look pretty and buy makeup. I want to inspire them to knit scarves for Syrian refugees.

Keep all your promises, don't take what doesn't belong to you, and always look after those less fortunate than yourself, and you'll do well in the world.

Every gentle word, every generous thought, every unselfish deed, will become a pillar of eternal beauty in the life to come.