Generosity Quotes

“Giving is taking is giving.”

— David G. Hartwell

I love giving. I love sharing.

— Gladys Knight

Giving is true loving.

— Charles Spurgeon

Say somethng am giving up on you.

— Dorcas

Great spenders are bad lenders.

— Benjamin Franklin

Even a smile can be charity.

— Muhammad

“Giving up is what kills people.”

— Anonymous

Giving up cannot be an option.

— Greta Thunburg

Charity is a virtue of the heart, and not of the hands.

— Joseph Addison

We... heal ourselves by giving others what we most need.

— Sherry Turkle

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

— Elia Kazan

Selfless giving is a guaranteed way to increase feelings of love.

— Jude Bijou

No communication or gift can exhaust genius or impoverish charity.

— Johann Kaspar Lavater

Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

— Warren Buffett

We need more spontaneous compassion and charity.

— Glenn L. Pace

I'm not not going to stop giving away what I feel about something.

— Tori Amos

In giving alms, let us rather look at the needs of the poor than his claim to your charity.

— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn

Charity provides crumbs from the table; justice offers a place at the table.

— Bill Moyers

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

— Thomas Huxley

The most genuine and efficacious charity is that which greases the paws of the priests; such charity covers a multitude of sins.

— Voltaire

People don't want charities to usurp the state as the core provider of social services.

— Geoff Mulgan

Who would you want to be giving you advice? Somebody who doesn't have any money?

— Suze Orman

Charity is ... a universal remedy against discord, and an holy cement for mankind.

— William Penn

In essentials, unity; in differences, liberty; in all things, charity.

— Philipp Melanchthon

I am delighted to become a Patron of Deafinitely Youth Theatre, a fantastic charity that is so special to me, and supporting…

— Rose Ayling-Ellis

Every day, do small gestures of generosity! It does not mean go to Cambodia. Do it at home. If you do nothing…

— Rithy Panh

Namely, if I am challenging the base of all these institutions, I'm challenging the moral code of altruism. The precept that man's…

— Ayn Rand

Donating a kidney to a woman I had never met was the greatest experience of my life. To give for the pure…

— Lori Palatnik

“Everyone gives much more and the receipts are considerable. Typical of American generosity. Their hospitality, their cordiality are like that too, spontaneous…

— Albert Camus

Charity may be a very short word, but with its tremendous meaning of pure love, it sums up man's entire relation to…

— Aelred of Rievaulx

In charity to all mankind, bearing no malice or ill will to any human being, and even compassionating those who hold in…

— John Quincy Adams

Today, our actions must be motivated only by our intense desire to achieve a just and lasting peace. The compassion and charity…

— Nick Rahall

“Life is not a competition. No one has to lose for someone else to win. A true blessing blesses everyone. A fragmented…

— Donna Goddard

Poor dusky children of slavery, men and women of my own race-the transition from slavery to freedom was too sudden for you!…

— Elizabeth Keckley

“Giving the rugged repairman the eye was one thing -- but Charity had no intention of snogging away a whole rainy afternoon…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

Your path is your own, but you must walk side by side with others, with compassion and generosity as your beacons. If…

— Elizabeth Lesser

We have the power to defy the selfish genes of our birth and, if necessary, the selfish memes of our indoctrination. We…

— Richard Dawkins

It is our duty to prefer the service of the poor to everything else and to offer such service as quickly as…

— St. Vincent

“Dear Alexis, Last week at our debate, I talked about the essential unfairness that my friend and colleague Levon Helm had to…

— Jonathan Taplin

Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and…

— Ernest Bevin