Generosity Quotes · Page 48

The theological virtue of charity is the mysterious power, communicated by grace, to love as God loves.

— Michel Quoist

Dont expect kind heartedness or charity, if you want to be heard, create power in your words.

— Senoraroy

Human contribution is the essential ingredient. It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.

— Ethel Percy Andrus

The able bodied poor don't want or need charity… All they need is financial capital.

— Muhammad Yunus

Real and lasting generosity requires that a person do more than make up his mind to give. He must also make up…

— William Arthur Ward

We must never think of giving up. Because if we are willing to try the possible, Allah(swt) will help us through the…

— Unicahija Tamano

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love.

— Mother Teresa

I am very shy. When I go to a charity ball, I don't mind if people look at my sleeves. I mind…

— Carolina Herrera

It is one of the great acts of American generosity and charity, what we are doing for these unaccompanied kids who are…

— Alex Azar

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions…

— Anonymous

My mom used to always read Bible scriptures to me and constantly say, 'Charity starts at home.' I always kept that in…

— Jay Rock

“I’ll sum up the key to success in one word: generosity,” writes Keith Ferrazzi. “If your interactions are ruled by generosity, your…

— Adam M. Grant

I try to pay it forward. I do a lot of philanthropic and charity work. Some of my greatest awards, greatest rewards,…

— George Perez

Who can begrudge the generosity of the wealthy, you might say. Wherever you stand on the concentration of wealth and power in…

— Owen Jones

People do not give from the top of their purses but from the bottom of their hearts. If you desire to become…

— John C. Maxwell

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If you look at things that really affect people's lives - sport, the arts, charities - they were always at the back…

— John Major

“The performance of an action is worthless in itself, if it is not done out of charity. Charity must be our motive;…

— Thomas à Kempis

Directly down the lawn and accross the Ellipse from the White House are those ordered, classic lines of the Jefferson Memorial and…

— Ronald Reagan

But I liked you from the moment I first heard your voice,” he said, “when I had no idea what you looked…

— Loretta Chase

“Such altruism, generated in the seclusion of one's own thoughts, becomes a subtle means of evading concrete inter-personal responsibility and of justifying…

— Stephen Batchelor

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that…

— Francis Pharcellus Church

...I believe deeply that we canot solve the challenges of your time unless we solve them together - unless we perfect our…

— Barack Obama

“People do more for their fellows than return favors and punish cheaters. They often perform generous acts without the slightest hope for…

— Steven Pinker

Giving up easily is a creed of weak, stand up, fight every battle, and even your poor.. you will shine like a…

— Nathaniel Quimada

Selfless giving is friendliness. An attitude towards life, a reverence for life. It is one of the highest of all ways.

— Frederick Lenz

I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.

— Sak?p Sabanc

“In faith, unity, in doubtful matters, liberty, in all things charity.”

— St. Augustine

There is always enough self-love hidden beneath the greatest devoutness to set limits on charity.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“Nothing consumes itself so much as generosity, because while you practise it you’re losing the wherewithal to go on practising it.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

In today's Republican Party, there's a term for people who hate charity and love killing: 'Christian.'

— Bill Maher

I'm not kidding - once you discover the pleasure of giving, how gratifying and satisfying it is, it becomes addictive.

— Haim Saban

I give a tenth of my salary to charity every month, so in terms of giving back, I do my best.

— Wilfried Zaha

“rule of four when it came to gift giving—something you want and something you need, something to wear and something to read.”

— Lori Wilde

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

— Virginia Woolf

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

— Clare Boothe Luce

No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.

— Catherine McAuley

real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.

— Lady Caroline Lamb

Giving something without promising is better than promising something before giving.

— Vikrant Parsai