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

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, ‚What’s in it for me?‘

What humility does for one is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come but who may be here and needs me.

I don’t want to have lived in vain like most people. I want to be useful or bring enjoyment to all people, even those I’ve never met. I want to go on living even after my death!

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.

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

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.

The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule.

I’d rather give my life than be afraid to give it.

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

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.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

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

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Earn your success based on service to others, not at the expense of others.

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

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

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

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

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

Loving others always costs us something and requires effort. And you have to decide to do it on purpose. You can’t wait for a feeling to motivate you.

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

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

The 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.

To be able to throw one’s self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman’s smile – that is happiness.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.

Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

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.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

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

The higher the sun ariseth, the less shadow doth he cast; even so the greater is the goodness, the less doth it covet praise; yet cannot avoid its rewards in honours.

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.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

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

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.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

I have done for my country, and for all mankind, all that I could do, and I now resign my soul, without fear, to my God – my daughter to my country.

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

No one has ever become poor by giving.

The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

They might not need me; but they might. I’ll let my head be just in sight; a smile as small as mine might be precisely their necessity.

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

The poorest people are the sweetest people.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

A day wasted on others is not wasted on one’s self.

When you give up yourself, that’s when you will feel the true spirit of Christmas. And that’s giving that’s serving others and that’s when you feel fulfilled.

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

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

Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go.

It shows nobility to be willing to increase your debt to a man to whom you already owe much.

Man gives you the award but God gives you the reward.

God wants to use you to make other people happy! And the happier you make others, the happier you will be because you reap what you sow.

We need a president who will choose to do what’s best for the country, even when it doesn’t personally benefit them.