Generosity Quotes

It is a simple tale, but its message is an enduring one: virtue and generosity will be rewarded in ways that one cannot know.

I always knew that deep down in every human heart, there is mercy and generosity.

In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

It is a good instinct if you don't distort it and pervert it. Don't give it up. Keep feeling the need for being important. Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

[President Roosevelt] devised the extraordinary measure of assistance called Lend- Lease, which will stand forth as the most unselfish and unsordid financial act of any country in all history.

As we have triumphed, so we may be merciful; as we are strong, so we can afford to be generous.

One ought to be just before one is generous.

Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events.

Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

I don't want to be remembered as anything but brave. The only good intention to make money is to help others. I want to be Oprah. I want to be Melinda Gates. If I ever sell products other than my talents, then it will be to give more to others.

Sharing money is what gives it its value.

Real charity is giving from the heart without taking credit.

A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.