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.

You make more money if you’re generous.

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

Nobody can ever make enough money for as many poor relatives as I’ve got. Somebody’s got a sick kid, or somebody needs an operation, somebody ain’t got this, somebody ain’t got that. Or to give the kids all a car when they graduate.

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

When I give somebody something and see their face, it just makes me so happy.

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

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

The funny thing is people won’t let me pay for things. I’ll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, ‚Oh no, it’s on the house.‘

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.

The 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.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

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

A financial crisis is a great time for professional investors and a horrible time for average ones.

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

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

When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the princes of greed. He said, ‚Look, here’s what happened.‘

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.

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.

The only way to get love is to be lovable. It’s very irritating if you have a lot of money. You’d like to think you could write a check: ‚I’ll buy a million dollars‘ worth of love.‘ But it doesn’t work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one’s self to others.

Money 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.

Most of the time, I’m not even working; I’m just helping people, because I feel that I am too lucky.

It 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.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

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

It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours.

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.

We 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.

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

The problem is that the U.S. government is the biggest debtor in the world, and those depending on it to take care of them will only become poorer.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

Giving is true having.

You may be rich, but there is one thing you can’t afford – that is, if you are a good sort – you can’t afford to spend money on your own luxuries while there are people around you wanting the necessaries of life.

We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.

Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

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.

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

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

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

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, ‚I write for money.‘ Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

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.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

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

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

There was the time I bought three cars in the span of three or four weeks. It was crazy; it wasn’t greedy. It was mine, my girl’s, my mom’s. I got Benzes for my ladies. But I felt crazy. You have to understand I come from a world where we’re very modest. But that’s not greedy. That’s nice, right?

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy’s tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

During the Enron debacle, it was workers who took the pounding, not bankers. Not only did Enron employees lose their jobs, many lost their retirement savings. That’s because they were at the bottom of the investing food chain.

I 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.

Most 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.

There 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.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ‚What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.‘

Encouragement to others is something everyone can give. Somebody needs what you have to give. It may not be your money; it may be your time. It may be your listening ear. It may be your arms to encourage. It may be your smile to uplift. Who knows?

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.

Good jokes are gems. A good idea is hard to come by. I couldn’t give them to someone else, even for money. It just wouldn’t seem right.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.