Generosity Quotes · Page 52

Here's where the real power of generosity comes in. Often, the more we give, the more we receive.

— Debbie Macomber

To heal the breach between the rich and the poor, it is necessary to distinguish between justice and charity.

— Pope Pius X

When you feel like giving up, remember what you've come all this way for.

— Anonymous

To achieve charity, we must submit, become patient, meek, humble. . . . We must exercise the love of God as a power.

— F. Enzio Busche

I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.

— Bernard Marcus

Not only does charity begin at home. Everything begins at home, including spirituality.

— Swami Satchidananda

We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

— Madeleine M. Kunin

Private charity discourages poverty while public subsidies encourage it.

— James Cook

I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The…

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

A single week of Oprah takes you from bondage to all the violent terrors of life, to escape through vicarious encounters with…

— Lee Siegel

I think Bolano had a generosity about him that was unique. He seemed to include so many people in the circle of…

— Sam Shepard

Through prayer, charity and humility before God, people receive a heart which is firm and merciful, attentive and generous, a heart which…

— Pope Francis

With charity, money is purified. By service, our actions are purified. With music, our emotions are purified and with knowledge our intellect…

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself…

— Wayne Dyer

Charity is indeed, a great thing, and a gift of God, and when it is rightly ordered likens us unto God himself,…

— Anonymous

The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it…

— Swami Vivekananda

Charity is the filthiest invention of the human mind: first you steal what belongs to everyone; then you use the law and…

— U.G. Krishnamurti

Yes, my dear children, everything is good and precious in God's sight when we act from the motives of religion and of…

— John Vianney

Maybe that's the way to tell the dangerous men from the good ones. A dreamer of the day is dangerous when he…

— Mary Doria Russell

“You told me," I said, "that I should turn this house into a boardinghouse for students. Well, there are better things I…

— J.M. Coetzee

Where there are love and generosity, there is joy. Where there are sincerity and sacrifice, there is friendship. Where there are harmony…

— Lawrence Reed

Remember to set apart at least one hour every day to do some service for others. While the food we eat nurtures…

— Mata Amritanandamayi

“Even love comes with its own season.. and relationships with their own kismets.They start through us, and then love loves through us.…

— Siddharth Dhanvant Shanghvi

Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Ah! what a divine religion might be found out if charity were really made the principle of it instead of faith.

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

— Harry Belafonte

It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity toward each other.

— James Madison

“Don't worry that you aren't giving people what they want. Give them who you are, and let that be enough.”

— Brandon Sanderson

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

— Mother Teresa

Anyone who has been as successful as I have should want to share those resources. Why not give some of it to…

— Tom Golisano

“If the hope of giving is to love the living, the giver risks madness in the act of giving.”

— James Baldwin

“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

When Love gives, it gives all; when it takes, it takes all. It's very taking is giving.

— Mikhail Naimy

For humans, gift giving is a universal ritual laden with evolutionary implications.

— Gad Saad

All wages are based primarily on productive power. Anything else would be charity.

— Elbert Hubbard

To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity.

— Pope Benedict XVI

“The solution to self-pity is found in the labor of selfless giving to others.”

— T.F. Hodge

“We’re all little lights, and if one of us isn’t shining, all the rest aren’t going to shine, either.”

— Cinzi Lavin

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

— Anonymous

I don't want to hang around and end up some old geezer who's getting 15 to 18 minutes of playing time with…

— John Havlicek