This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.
Friedrich NietzscheYou make more money if you’re generous.
Robert KiyosakiGiving is true having.
Charles SpurgeonThe great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.
Christopher HitchensSpeak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
ConfuciusThe poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul SartreIf you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
Mother TeresaI always thought money was something just to make me happy. But I’ve learned that I feel better being able to help my folks, ‚cause we never had nothing. So just to see them excited about my career is more of a blessing than me actually having it for myself.
Kendrick LamarGenerous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.
Robert KiyosakiI think you have a moral responsibility when you’ve been given far more than you need, to do wise things with it and give intelligently.
J. K. RowlingThe Tao teaches us to let go of things. Use the 80/20 rule. If you take all your clothes, you’ll find out that you only wear 20 percent of them. Take what you have and don’t use and circulate it. Give stuff to people who truly need it. After all, we come into this world with nothing; we leave this world with nothing.
Wayne DyerIt is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaOne isn’t necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can’t be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya AngelouI am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.
Hunter S. ThompsonWe can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao TzuWe are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.
Billy GrahamGenerosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Khalil GibranThe greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.
Brian TracyI like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.
Joyce MeyerRemember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI always joke that my kids‘ favorite holiday is Father’s Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It’s my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad.
Wayne DyerThe outpouring of support from millions of people in the immediate aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti has been impressive.
Bill GatesThere are people in the world who aren’t necessarily Christians, but they’re just naturally nice people who do a lot for other people. Those people will almost always be prosperous people.
Joyce MeyerThe value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.
Albert EinsteinThere are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.
Nelson MandelaNothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
C. S. LewisI bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.
John KennedyThe love we give away is the only love we keep.
Elbert HubbardYour successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert CamusYou give before you get.
Napoleon HillWhen BP was not moving fast enough on claims, we told BP to set aside $20 billion in a fund – managed by an independent third party – to help all those whose lives have been turned upside down by the spill.
Barack ObamaIt shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWhen I ask people to give, I can’t be on television if they don’t; I can’t help people, if I don’t – I mean, it takes money.
Joyce MeyerGiving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.
John D. RockefellerThat’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.
Jerry SeinfeldCharity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance of fruits. But alms given to those who are yet under the tyrannical yoke of the passions are like seed deposited in a bad soil. The passions of the receiver of the alms choke, as it were, the growth of merits.
BuddhaIn dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don’t try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao TzuMost of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.
Jackie ChanWhen I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.
Jackie ChanYou give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Khalil GibranThe poorest people are the sweetest people.
Denzel WashingtonMoney doesn’t mean anything to me. I’ve made a lot of money, but I want to enjoy life and not stress myself building my bank account. I give lots away and live simply, mostly out of a suitcase in hotels. We all know that good health is much more important.
Keanu ReevesThe 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.
Martin Luther King, Jr.God has given us two hands – one to receive with and the other to give with. We are not cisterns made for hoarding; we are channels made for sharing.
Billy GrahamMost of us are aware of the sacrificial slaughter of Bear Sterns. Some people call it a bailout, but I call it a handout – a government handout to some of the richest people on Earth, paid for by American taxpayers.
Robert KiyosakiBounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.
Samuel JohnsonThere are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.
Friedrich NietzscheMost people would rather give than get affection.
AristotleThere is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.
Audrey HepburnMany men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander PopeTo give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.
John RuskinThe United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.
Colin PowellThere never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert FrostThe Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.
Martin LutherLouisiana’s spicy, colorful politics have saddled our state with a reputation for tolerating lax ethical standards in government.
John KennedyTo live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as one’s own in the midst of abundance.
BuddhaThe more credit you give away, the more will come back to you. The more you help others, the more they will want to help you.
Brian TracyWe should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca