We are not cisterns made for hoarding, we are channels made for sharing.

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

Let us sacrifice our today so that our children can have a better tomorrow.

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

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

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.

What’s important for my daughter to know is that… if you are fortunate to have opportunity, it is your duty to make sure other people have those opportunities as well.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

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

Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.

Sometimes I feel like being an intellectual. Sometimes I like to just be aggressive and all the way in my feelings. Sometimes I might be emotional, or sometimes I might drag on the track and be lazy. I just like to share the different states of existence of Kevin Gates with the rest of the world.

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.

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

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

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

We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love.

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

There is no delight in owning anything unshared.

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.

We talk about this concept of openness and transparency as the high-level ideal that we’re moving towards at Facebook. The way that we get there is by empowering people to share and connect. The combination of those two things leads the world to become more open.

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

I am amazed at the wonders of technology and am grateful for the ways in which we are able to use it to share the Gospel around the world.

Whatever is well said by another, is mine.

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

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

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

Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.

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.‘

People who add value to others do so intentionally. I say that because to add value, leaders must give of themselves, and that rarely occurs by accident.

Heroes are not known by the loftiness of their carriage; the greatest braggarts are generally the merest cowards.

To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. ‚Tis much better to do a little with certainty & leave the rest for others that come after you.

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.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

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.

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

I feel very happy to be living in Berkeley because there are a lot of people who are politically active here.

We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that’s the mercy you’re going to be receiving.

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.

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.

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

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

Everything is an open book. I don’t speak on other people’s hardship, but if it happened in my life or something that has been an experience on my particular journey, I’m going to talk about it. That’s what my fan base appreciates the most. I’m universal. You can relate to the things I say or that I go through.

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

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

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

Whoever is spared personal pain must feel himself called to help in diminishing the pain of others. We must all carry our share of the misery which lies upon the world.

I hope I didn’t bore you too much with my life story.

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.

For more than a decade, I led an organization that put on an elaborate Christmas program each December. It was a big production, with over 250 people participating in more than 20 performances. By the end of the season, everyone who participated was exhausted.

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

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

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.

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.

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

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.