Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.

My father always taught me that when you help other people, then God will give you double. And that’s what has really happened to me. When I have helped other people who are in need, God has helped me more.

I am the most helpful and open up doors for everyone and I like to share.

To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.

Funny thing is that the poorer people are, the more generous they seem to be.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

I have to live for others and not for myself: that’s middle-class morality.

I 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.

A tear dries quickly when it is shed for troubles of others.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world.

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

The ‚Maddox Jolie-Pitt‘ Foundation’s work is inspired by our children and their connections to particular countries.

Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do doesn’t matter.

Love is the missing factor; there is a lack of affection, of warmth in relationship; and because we lack that love, that tenderness, that generosity, that mercy in relationship, we escape into mass action, which produces further confusion, further misery.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

I 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.

We know that in tough times, cynicism is just another way to give up, and in the military, we consider cynicism or giving up simply as forms of cowardice.

The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary.

I was never focused on me, me, me all the time. I was always focused on somebody else.

The love we give away is the only love we keep.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.

The generous Critic fann’d the Poet’s fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.

If you want to be perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.

I tell everybody, I get so much because I give so much. I give freely, I give all my time, give all my money, give all of my soul. I try to motivate people. I try to inspire them.

It’s amazing how people will give when you don’t ask. Many of them send money because they believe in the message.

One 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.

The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important.

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver.

Generosity 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.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: ‚If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?‘ But… the good Samaritan reversed the question: ‚If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?‘

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

American taxpayers have been generous to Louisiana in the aftermath of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

I’ve been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that’s kind of a religious belief. I mean, it’s at least a moral belief.

You give before you get.

An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

I 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.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particularly care about.

If you give, you will be blessed.

When 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.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

I like to give back.