Generosity Quotes · Page 46

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

— Frank Grillo

I really enjoy doing charity, for a good cause, it’s like the least I can do, I really enjoy that stuff. I…

— Alex O'Loughlin

Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope.

— Benjamin Franklin

Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.

— Michael Josephson

I have learned to give, not because I have too much, but because I have known the feeling of not having anything.

— Anonymous

With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

— Rumi

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

— Frank A. Clark

Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.

— Michael Parenti

We see community organizations as major service providers and economic drivers rather than as recipients or distributors of charity, and coordinators of…

— Julia Gillard

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more…

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.

— Paul J. Zak

“Charity felt rather snoozy after the long sermon, and she was really very grateful when Reverend Meeps offered her a cup of…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

I cannot tell and I shall never know how many words of mine might have given birth to cruelty in place of…

— Clarence Darrow

“If there is a human moral to be drawn, it is that we must teach our children altruism, for we cannot expect…

— Richard Dawkins

Selfless giving is a choice. The primary choice we make is not what to give, how to give, where to give. What…

— Frederick Lenz

During 'Jersey Boys,' I discovered one of the most rewarding ways to use your goodwill is to motivate fans and friends into…

— John Lloyd Young

Religion creates community, community creates altruism and altruism turns us away from self and towards the common good... There is something about…

— Jonathan Sacks

It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or…

— Mahatma Gandhi

“Properly speaking, altruism is an absurdity. Women are self-sacrificing in direct proportion to their incapacity to offer anything but this sacrifice. They…

— Germaine Greer

Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole…

— Swami Vivekananda

“Our greatest dreams and desires abide in the mental and spiritual realm. In order to transfer them in the physical plane we…

— Franco Santoro

When I understand myself, I understand you, and out of that understanding comes love. Love is the missing factor; there is a…

— Anonymous

“How someone treats me (kind or cruel), is only between them and God, And my reaction the experience is only between myself…

— Raymond D. Longoria Jr

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

Christmas is the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

— Washington Irving

That which is called liberality is frequently nothing more than the vanity of giving.

— Theodore Parker

What's interesting about subscribing to a life of giving is that you become addicted.

— Mary Kay Ash

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

— Pope Francis

The most compassionate form of giving is done with no thought or expectation of reward, and grounded in genuine concern for others.

— Dalai Lama

The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

— Sparky Anderson

“We are oblivious to suffering. We are cheap with charity if it's not close to our home.”

— Bill Maher

I may be an atheist, but am not against religion because atheist's have nothing to replace the structure of church charity.

— Anonymous

I've set up businesses. I've set up charities. I have actually done the work myself.

— Andrea Leadsom

Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.

— J. D. Greear

... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance.

— George Eliot

“Generosity creates the higher life. There is no nobler virtue than the care one person shows to another.”

— Mensah Oteh

Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way.

— Gautama Buddha

There is precious little that's charitable about the world of charity.

— Richard Cohen

I think it's important to be involved with charities that don't necessarily reflect what you're dealing with in your life.

— Chelsea Handler

Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity.

— Nhat Hanh