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.

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

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.

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

No one has ever become poor by giving.

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

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

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

Philanthropy should be voluntary.

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.

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.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

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.

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

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

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

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

You can’t take care of charity unless you take care of yourself first.

What charitable 1 percenters can’t do is assume responsibility – America’s national responsibilities: the care of its sick and its poor, the education of its young, the repair of its failing infrastructure, the repayment of its staggering war debts.

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

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.

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

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.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don’t.

Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.

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.

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

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.

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.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

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

I don’t like begging money from producers.

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

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

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

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.‘

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

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

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.‘

We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what’s in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

I like to give back.

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.

I always think if you are asking somebody for something it is a good idea to give them something first.

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.

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.

I have been working for Africans since I was 18, when I got involved with the Nelson Mandela concerts. I got involved with debt cancellation because Desmond Tutu demanded that the world respond to that situation.

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

Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God – the rest will be given.

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.

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.

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