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.

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

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn’t touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God.

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

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

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

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.

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’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.

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

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

My father worked for a children’s home called Dr. Barnardo’s Homes. They’re a charity.

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?

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

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

That’s the true spirit of Christmas; people being helped by people other than me.

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There’s another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

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

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

I hate fund-raising. Haaaaate it. Hate, hate it.

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

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.

Yes, the Bible should be taught in our schools because it is necessary to understand the Bible if we are to truly understand our own culture and how it came to be. The Bible has influenced every part of western culture from our art, music, and history, to our sense of fairness, charity, and business.

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

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely. If I’m a true follower of my lord and saviour Jesus Christ, I got to do the things you’re supposed to be doing.

I was born with an enormous need for affection, and a terrible need to give it.

It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can’t do anything with that except do it.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

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

I believe that of all the things I have done, exciting though many of them have been, there’s no doubt in my mind that the most worthwhile have been the establishing of schools and hospitals, and the rebuilding of monasteries in the mountains.

Christmas is a tonic for our souls. It moves us to think of others rather than of ourselves. It directs our thoughts to giving.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

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

O wise man! Give your wealth only to the worthy and never to others. The water of the sea received by the clouds is always sweet.

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 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.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get – only with what you are expecting to give – which is everything.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

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

When you give, it comes back to you.

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.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

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.

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.