generosity quotes

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

You make more money if you’re generous.

The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The 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.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

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

If you give, you will be blessed.

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.

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

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.

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

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.

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

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.

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

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

My mother always wanted to give back.

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

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.

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.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one’s soul.

I like to give back.

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.

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

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 just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don’t buy a single vote more than is necessary. I’ll be damned if I’m going to pay for a landslide.

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

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.

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.

Indeed, it is as important to learn how to receive a blessing as it is to be willing to give one.

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.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.

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

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

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

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.‘

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

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.‘

It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

I 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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

You cannot spend money in luxury without doing good to the poor. Nay, you do more good to them by spending it in luxury, than by giving it; for by spending it in luxury, you make them exert industry, whereas by giving it, you keep them idle.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

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

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?

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.

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

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

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