Generosity Quotes - Page 2

Doing good for others should not be a pre-calculated motive driven by an agenda for future gains; it should be a natural response out of the basic need at hand.

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.

I've never heard anyone say "I wish I hadn't forgiven.

Life doesn't offers charity, it offers chance.

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

Maumivu ya matatizo ya yule aliyekukosea hayana tofauti na maumivu ya matatizo ya wewe uliyekosewa. Adui yako (kwa mfano) akifiwa na mke aliyempenda sana, atajisikia vibaya kama utakavyojisikia vibaya kufiwa na mke uliyempenda sana. Kuwa na huruma kwa waliokukosea, wakati wa shida.

It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that

Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort.

But the minimum human duty is to serve others: it is no great attainment.

Our greatest dreams and desires abide in the mental and spiritual realm. In order to transfer them in the physical plane we need to invert subject and object. You will receive from the world what you deeply long to receive the day when you give to the world what you deeply long to receive. Today could be that day.

Some people can be so generous when they give nothing away!

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.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

When does someone love you enough to put you before himself? Had I done so with Michiko?

I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, but give it away as I go along, and then nobody will envy me, or want to steal it, and I shan't be suspecting folks and worrying about my old cash.

Jesus seemed to believe that the key to generosity wasn’t having more, but being content with what you already have.

To paraphrase Lucretius, there's nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of man or woman they really are.

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.