Generosity Quotes

“The truth is that we all have ant years and grasshopper years - years in which we are able to prepare and save and years where we need a little extra help. Our true flaw lies not in failing to store up enough resources to cope with the grasshopper years, but in believing that each grasshopper year is an anomaly, visited only on us, due to our unique human failings.”
― Katherine May, Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times

“The only time to look down on your neighbor is when you're bending over to help them.”
― Linda Castillo, Outsider

“Pride yourself on the fact that if gallantry, generosity, and fidelity disappeared from the world, they could be found in you.”
― Baltasar Gracián, The Art of Worldly Wisdom: A Pocket Oracle

“Fools count and wait for something in return. The wise just give because it’s the right thing to do.”
― Maxime Lagacé

“...have you ever considered that the very reason your earnings remain so small may be because you spend everything on yourself? If God gave you more, you would only use it to increase your own comfort instead of looking to see who is sick or who has no work at all that you might help them.”
― George Muller

“When a guide meets up with someone who is lost, ordinarily his reaction is to direct him on the right path, not mock or malign him, then turn on his heel and walk away. As for you, lead someone to the truth and you will find that he can follow.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“If we want well-being for all people, then we must share what we have with our neighbors, and they must share with their neighbors, and every recipient of kindness and charity must continue to share until all—worldwide—are partakers and benefactors of true generosity. Human well-being does not exist in consort with selfishness.”
― Richelle E. Goodrich, Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year

“Why not stop awhile? Your record is pretty good; you might form younger pilots, and in time go back to your squadron."

"Yes, and people would say that, hoping for no more distinctions, I have given up fighting."

"What does it matter? Let people talk, and when you appear in better condition they will understand...you will admit that human strength has its limits."

"Yes," Georges interposed, "a limit which we must endeavor to leave behind. We have given nothing as long as we have not given everything.”
― Henry Bordeaux, George Guynemer, Knight of the Air

“Kind people are the best kind of people.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Kindness planned is no kindness, only kindness done is kindness.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“Trauma and tragedy will continue to cook, that is until one day, one person chooses to do something good for no reason.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Have strong mind, soft heart and sacred soul.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“In our deep poverty, after I had gathered together a few things for sale, a sister who earns her living pay the labor of her hands for 82 pounds. This sister was convinced that believers in our Lord Jesus should act out His commandments; "Sell that, ye have, and give alms (Luke 12: 33; lay not up for yourselves treasures upon Earth (Matthew 6:19). Accordingly, she drew her money out of the bank and stocks, 250 pounds, and brought it to me at three different times for the benefit of the orphans, the Bible, missionary, and school funds, and the poor saints.

About two months ago she brought me 100 pounds more after she had sold some other possessions. The 82 pounds she brought today is from the sale of her last earthly possession. She never expressed the least regret for the step she took, but went on quietly laboring with her hands to earn her daily living.”
― George Muller

“So, character is how you do things, as well as what you do, and a person of character understands that how they get things done matters as much as what they get done. Character is about integrity over time, trustworthiness over time, authenticity over time, generosity over time.
Sometimes you’ll hear people talk a lot about values in conjunction with the word character, and I always say to people that values are what guide your behavior when no one is looking and you don’t think anyone will ever find out. The way you behave when you think you can get away with it is who you really are.”
― Carly Fiorina

“Jinpa explained that in Buddhist teachings there are three kinds of generosity: material giving, giving freedom from fear (which can involve protection, counseling, or solace), and spiritual giving, which can involve giving your wisdom, moral and ethical teachings, and helping people to be more self-sufficient and happier.”
― Jinpa Thupten

“Life doesn’t begin when you start breathing; it begins when you start living, giving and loving.”
― Michael Bassey Johnson, The Book of Maxims, Poems and Anecdotes

“The whole question is; "How precious is he to us now?" If we do not think much of him, then of course to give him anything at all, however small will seem to us a wicked waste. But when he is really precious to our souls nothing will be too good, nothing too costly for him; everything we have, our dearest, our most priceless treasure, we shall pour out upon him, and we shall not count it a shame to have done so.”
― Watchman Nee, The Normal Christian Life

“Life is a free gift we have each received; therefore, I believe we are alive to give, that all people might live free from needless suffering.”
― Dylan B. Raines

“I want
To love
The whole world

I don't know
If it's possible

Only if I was saint”
― Jazalyn, Rose: Future Heart

“Love is giving a piece of your soul to another.
Life is seeing that celestial fire kindle an eternal flame of joy.”
― Anonymous7

“Once all the technical mystique has been stripped away from psychotherapy, it does seem that a likely explanation for its almost explosive expansion over the last few decades is that it provides something which is otherwise in very short supply in a world in which a kind of watchful defensiveness against our vulnerability has replaced any kind of spontaneous generosity which people may more often once have felt for each other.”
― David Smail, Illusion and Reality: The Meaning of Anxiety

“For a young woman to accept money from a man seemed to imply that some return of favours would be due. But […] that feeling came from what was dirty and not from what was noble in the world.”
― Anthony Trollope, The Telegraph Girl

“When you go out and share with the intention of helping others improve their lives, the abundance of the universe will begin to flow back to you. This is the universal principle of life that those who water others will themselves be watered. Ancient Scriptures remind us always to be generous to others and the generosity will be reciprocated to us in one way or the other.”
― Dr. Lucas D. Shallua, Average to Abundant: How Ordinary People Build Sustainable Wealth and Enjoy the Process

“True Forgiveness is one of the highest acts of Generosity.”
― Chandima Gangodawila

“Sacrifice is realizing that the depth of my need can only be quenched by giving away the soul of myself.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“Provide for the poor. Help the needy. You can’t go higher than the level of your generosity”
― Abiodun Fijabi

“Community is more important than faith. Belonging is more important than belief. Gathering is more important than God. As the similar findings of American social psychologists Jesse Graham and Jonathan Haidt have confirmed, bonding with other humans is the driving engine of increased charity and generosity, not believing in a deity.”
― Phil Zuckerman, What It Means to Be Moral: Why Religion Is Not Necessary for Living an Ethical Life

“The man who receives kindness get inspired to be kind to others.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“We are doomed, but fortunately, there are holidays, birthdays, and anniversaries that help. We never want to love. We only love, so thank God for dates that make us want.”
― Karl Kristian Flores, The Goodbye Song

“Sacrifice is assumed to be the giving away of that which we need for our own survival. But have we considered that survival (in the richest sense of the word) is not based on what we keep, but on what we give away?”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough