Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that… — Michael Lerner Copy Share Image
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“The man who attempts to live for others is a dependent. He is a parasite in motive and makes parasites of those… — ayn rand Copy Share Image
The welfare state creates its own victim/client constituency. By making individuals free and independent, we reduce the need for 'charity' to those… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
“Life is not a competition. No one has to lose for someone else to win. A true blessing blesses everyone. A fragmented… — Donna Goddard Copy Share Image
“I've learned that solutions to poverty must be driven by discipline, accountability, and market strength, not easy sentimentality. I've learned that many… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Man must know the principle of Creation: giving between each interchanging opposite half of each cycle for the purpose of repeating its… — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in. — Emanuel Swedenborg Copy Share Image
As water collected in a tank gets pure by filtration, so accumulated wealth is preserved by being employed in charity. — Chanakya Copy Share Image
What the poor need is not charity but capital, not caseworkers but coworkers. And what the rich need is a wise, honorable… — Clarence Jordan Copy Share Image
It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and… — Steven Sinofsky Copy Share Image
Success may or may not mean that you've acquired a lot. It does mean that you have become a generous person. — Robert H. Schuller Copy Share Image
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Scott has to be one of the most talented artists I've ever seen. He really captures his subjects in a unique way.… — Bob Lilly Copy Share Image
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“The true principle to promotion and advancement is generosity.The giving of oneself… your time, talent and substance. Today, I choose to be… — Kathy McClary Copy Share Image
Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make… — Gary W. Goldstein Copy Share Image
Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity. — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
If you believe in practising generosity of spirit, at heart you believe in the power of an individual to make a difference… — Gail Kelly Copy Share Image
“Charity is detrimental unless it helps the recipient become independent of it.” — David Thorne Copy Share Image
