Generosity Quotes

They looked at me, and were so full of delight in the pleasure they were giving me that some final thread of resistance gave way and I understood not only how entirely generous they were but also that generosity might be the greatest pleasure there is.

~ William Maxwell

You will only have what you give away.

~ Debasish Mridha

He who accumulates has little. He who gives away has much.

~ Debasish Mridha

If you want to live forever, give yourself away for others.

~ Debasish Mridha

I love the tranquility, serenity, generosity, and the beauty of the ocean.

~ Debasish Mridha

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the

~ Gautama Buddha

For it is in giving that we receive.

~ Francis Of Assisi

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.

~ J.m. Coetzee

Every sunrise is an invitation for us to arise and brighten someone's day.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

~ Debbie Macomber

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.The more he gives to others,the more he has for his own.

~ Lao Tzu

When you stop living for luxuries you understand the real meaning of life.

~ Edhi Sahab

My reason to live is to love, my reason to get is to give. - The Lord is my witness.

~ Nurudeen Ushawu

When God blesses you, the highest form of gratitude is open-handedness.

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

Giving is not favor, it's a form of self-reparation.

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

Greatness isn't worldly fame and success. Laying humble service for humanity's best is true greatness.

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

We are all citizens of the world and we owe it to the world to make it a better place.

~ Chinonye J. Chidolue

Beware of those who are stingy, for they would rather sting you than give you anything.

~ Suzy Kassem

We've decided to wake a miss for you because you are nice. We want a booby as roomful as ours.Everybody had seen the Hobgoblin laugh, but nobody believed he could smile. He was so happy that you could see it all over him -- from his hat to his boots! Without a word he waved his cloak over the grass -- and behold! Once more the garden was filled with a pink light and there on the grass before them lay a twin to the King's Ruby -- the Queen's Ruby.

~ Tove Jansson

I will not hesitate.I will not hang back.I will go and offer my heart, for it is what I have to give...

~ Kate Mullane Robertson

When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.

~ Rachel Simmons

If you can live with less of what you have. You can be more of who you are.

~ Celso Cukierkorn

Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.

~ Wayne Gerard Trotman

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

~ G.k. Chesterton

Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

~ Victor Hugo

God doesn't make us rich so we can indulge ourselves and spoil our children, or so we can insulate ourselves form needing God's provision. God gives us abundant material blessing so that we can give it away, and give it generously.

~ Randy Alcorn

We can give away all that He entrusts to us in the same spirit of generosity.

~ Craig Groeschel

If you wish to give chance on others' abilities and capabilities then give them respected time to grow and express themselves.Share a path for everyone to grow and glow!

~ Angelica Hopes

Every gift you give, will multiply a hundred-fold.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

I come in a world of iron...to make a world of gold

~ Dale Wasserman

If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there’s no sense telling the story.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If the baser instinct of rampant self-preservation adamantly refuses to surrender itself to the infinitely greater call of self-sacrifice, in attempting to save our lives we will have in reality completely destroyed our lives.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We must wake up. If we are going to find our callings, we must live intentionally and audaciously. And we must be generous. This choice is not an easy one, and it doesn't come naturally, but it's how we were meant to live. It's the only way - I'm quite convinced of this - that we can find the satisfaction we've been searching for, the lives we've been dreaming of. And although there are legitimate health, business, and psychological benefits to generous living, the most important one is this: generosity gives your life meaning.

~ Jeff Goins

People, most especially those who have known ease in this life, care more about being prospered than refined. It's always about what they can get from God, not what they can do for others, unless they can call attention to it for others to see.

~ Donna Lynn Hope

Rabbi Hiyya advised his wife, “When a poor man comes to the door, be quick to give him food so that the same may be done to your children.” She exclaimed, “You are cursing our children [with the suggestion that they may become beggars].” But Rabbi Hiyya replied, “There is a wheel which revolves in this world.” —Babylonian Talmud, Shabbat 151b

~ Joseph Telushkin

It takes money to make money, even begging. Humans are herd animals. If a stranger’s bleeding to death beside the road, most people won’t stop to offer a Band-Aid. But get the ball rolling with a couple Good Samaritans, and before you know it you’ve got more eager philanthropists than you know what to do with.

~ Sol Luckman

Generosity is the rarest of qualities in American writers.

~ Pat Conroy

Rest in the knowledge that God is both abundantly gracious and ridiculously generous.

~ Jared Brock

[I]t's not enough to be right. I think you have to be generous. It's not enough to be logical. You have to be virtuous...[Y]our demeanor will carry your message, perhaps, even further than your words will...[P]eople don't just disagree with us. Many of them genuinely think that we are evil, and when people think you're evil, I don't think they listen very carefully to your words. They search your manner. They look for the slightest excuse to ignore all your impregnable arguments, all of your carefully-marshaled facts, and that's why we must never be mean-spirited or angry or petulant, or dismissive of the interest of others. I believe rudeness and arrogance, they would drive people away, that would only confirm their own prejudices. It's the excuse they're desperate for to walk away smug and happy and say 'these people are just small-minded angry bigots.' Our opponents don't recognize our good faith, but -and this is a hard thing- I think we must try our best to recognize their good faith...You can't expect them to recognize our good intentions unless we are willing to recognize theirs.

~ Jared Taylor