Generosity Quotes · Page 71

Giving back to your community - we've done that forever, that's nothing new.

— Patty Mills

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

— Swami Vivekananda

The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.

— Frank Butler

All you can hold in your cold dead hand is what you have given away.

— Joaquin Miller

If one is experiencing poverty, practice ordinary and extreme generosity - this is the antidote.

— Jetsunma Ahkon Lhamo

“Censorship, like charity, should begin at home: but unlike charity, it should end there." - Claire Booth Luce”

— Claire Booth Luce

Corporatism trying to redeem itself through charity is akin to a serial killer offering to pay a fine for his crimes.

— Dean Cavanagh

If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

— Plato

Yes, youve heard right, I am returning to Glee Club. In lieu of flowers, please send all donations to a socially conscious…

— Rachel Berry

I created my own charity called My Peak Challenge. We've been able to raise hundreds of thousands of pounds. It's helping change…

— Sam Heughan

If you grant asylum to so many refugees, your house may be sacked sooner by the soldiers; I see that clearly. The…

— Vincent de Paul

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride,…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Reparative justice is not about black people standing on the street corners expecting charities from white folks. This is about building of…

— Hilary Beckles

Great gift-giving involves three things: you feel what the other feels; you give freely; and you count sacrifice a bargain… those gifts…

— Henry B. Eyring

Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say…

— Virginia Woolf

If we make our goal to live a life of compassion and unconditional love, then the world will indeed become a garden…

— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and…

— Anonymous

It is emphatically no sacrifice. Say rather it is a privilege. Anxiety, sickness, suffering, or danger, now and then, with a foregoing…

— David Livingstone

Be ever watchful for the opportunity to shelter little children with the umbrella of your charity; be generous to their schools, their…

— Conrad Hilton

Others will give away large alms in order to be considered charitable people. Should they not give these out of their own…

— John Vianney

I can't give a formula for how to spread joy, but I know that the source of the joy is one's own…

— Charles Eisenstein

The argument of socialists, that people really want to share, beyond a reasonable level of charity, is rubbish, though it is espoused…

— Conrad Black

At times one hesitates to reprove or admonish evil-doers, either because one seeks a more favorable moment or fears his rebuke might…

— Augustine

“Quite rapidly Etta became acquainted with the realities of poverty in one of its loneliest forms -- that of the poor middle-class…

— Richard Aldington

“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are all born selfish.”

— Richard Dawkins

If you want to ask one question, ask yourself, what are you giving to the universe and only that will be returned.

— Amit Ray

What is the chief end of giving? To glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

— Dennis Bakke

“The best way to have in abundance is to give in essence. There is great possession in charity.”

— Adewale Osunsakin

“Happiness is the ultimate inner experience of living with generosity, love, kindness, compassion, and gratitude.”

— Debasish Mridha

Charity is a song learnt by heart, while altruism is a hymn sung from the heart.

— Anonymous

Sacrifice really means giving up something good for something better.

— Stephen Covey

It must be said that charity can, in no way, exist along with mortal sin.

— Thomas Aquinas

“Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are.”

— Patti Digh

Children, we should simplify our life's needs and use the resulting savings for charity.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

— Otto von Bismarck

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.

— Pope Francis

That charity is bad which takes from independence its proper pride, from mendicity its salutary shame.

— Robert Southey

My personal prayer is simply my joy to be alive, and to live in gratitude and generosity.

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

“Don't touch my plumtree! Said my friend and saying so... Broke the branch for me”

— Taigi

But I also happen to be someone who believes in tithing--the giving of a tenth .

— Ronald Reagan