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

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

My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing.

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.

A good name is rather to be chosen than riches.

If I hadn’t given my money away, I’d have had more than anyone else on the planet.

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

There 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.

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That’s quite clear.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

A little over 5% of the world’s population produces almost 29% of the world’s goods and services.

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

My mother was a full-time mother. She didn’t have much of her own career, her own life, her own experiences… everything was for her children. I will never be as good a mother as she was. She was just grace incarnate. She was the most generous, loving – she’s better than me.

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

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

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 have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it’s less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

This 90/10 rule holds true in almost anything financial. Take the game of golf, for example. Ten percent of the professional golfers make 90 percent of the money.

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.

You make more money if you’re generous.

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

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

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.

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

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

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

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?

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.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

Giving is true having.

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

I like gifts. I like to give them and I like to get them.

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.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

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.

I’m generous. I give good tips. It’s just – the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don’t want anything. I’m not a consumer. I don’t crave objects.

He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

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

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.

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

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

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

Charity 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.

Bounty always receives part of its value from the manner in which it is bestowed.

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.

Agriculture not only gives riches to a nation, but the only riches she can call her own.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

In 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.

The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What’s happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It’s going to make the situation worse.

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.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Riches don’t make a man rich, they only make him busier.

That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.