Generosity Quotes · Page 45

Ask not what you are getting from the world but, rather, what you are giving to the world.

— Brendon Burchard

The practice of charity will bind us...will bind all men in one great brotherhood.

— Conrad Hilton

I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity.

— George Bush

I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

— Tracy Chapman

Today I pray for the ability to help others have a better day by living in a more giving and unselfish way.

— Anonymous

Have Love. Not love alone for one, but man as man they brother call; and scatter like the circling sun thy charities…

— Friedrich Schiller

Every year Steve Kaufman supports the charity “Love Ride” by donating a painting to this cause.

— Jay Leno

Charity should be blind to everything but need. Our personal feelings should not determine whose starvation is legitimate.

— Michael Redhill

..the best strategy for giving is a two-fold approach: a basic plan combined with a willingness to consider spontaneous giving when unique…

— Andy Stanley

If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll…

— Charlie Haden

The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why not spend…

— Zach Braff

Women's Aid is a fantastic charity which has my full support. I am proud to call myself a Real Man, a man…

— Neil Fox

By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them…

— Therese of Lisieux

Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is…

— Andrew Carnegie

I don't regret or wouldn't change anything I've done financially from the charity giving. The impact that happened there is pretty cool.

— John Smoltz

I'm my mother's son, so when it comes to altruism and understanding how to do things to benefit a person's life... the…

— Dustin Lance Black

“Jonathan Haidt, a social psychologist at the NYU Stern School of Business, made the case for why in an essay in The…

— Thomas L. Friedman

“November 2014, focus on science communications full-time. I now work for a cancer charity, “translating” science into English for fundraising teams. My…

— Sam Maggs

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

— Ernest Bevin

That was one of things that surprised me so much when I was writing the poems. The contrasts between the haves and…

— Adrian Matejka

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

— Jonathan Taplin

I'm worried that a few people are confusing the ringing of a church bell with the ringing of a cash register, ..…

— Chuck Grassley

Again, in our enterprises we present the singular spectacle of daring and deliberation, each carried to its highest point, and both united…

— Thucydides

“So long as I confine my activities to social service and the blind, they compliment me extravagantly, calling me ‘arch priestess of…

— Helen Keller

I practice selfless giving not because I'm remarkable but just because I find that its terrifically fun!

— Frederick Lenz

The essence of charity ... was not deciding what others needed and giving it to them, but giving them what they wanted.

— Jane Smiley

A profusion of pink roses being ragged in the rain speaks to me of all gentleness and its enduring.

— William Carlos Williams

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

— Richard Dawkins

Forgiveness from others is charity; from God, grace; from oneself, wisdom.

— William Arthur Ward

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

— Rumi

“The power of charity work is that it allows you to make a difference where you are, right in your community.”

— Germany Kent

If, when you give to someone you think you're better than they are because your practing selfless giving, you're not loving.

— Frederick Lenz

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

— John Bunyan

Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

— Timothy Keller

Tell me a fact, and I'll learn. Tell me a truth, and I'll believe. But tell me a story, and it will…

— Ed Sabol

Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.

— Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen

“Charity is giving to someone what he needs versus what you want to give him.”

— Patricia Cornwell

Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.

— Marilynne Robinson

What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.

— Laozi

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

— Eric Hoffer