Generosity Quotes · Page 52

Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

— Og Mandino

We have to get out of this mindset that the rich will do the business and the poor will have the charity.

— Muhammad Yunus

The rule of unconditional love; it is in the giving that you make the other person realize.

— Anonymous

I can remember way back when a liberal was generous with his own money.

— Will Rogers

“Good men's actions are natural While a scoundrel's charity Is carefully planned to please.”

— Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri

“The whole of life is to spiritualize our activities by humility and faith, to silence our nature by charity.”

— Thomas Merton

I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.

— Jennifer Aniston

Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

— John Piper

I’d give him a cup of coffee and a big helping of a knuckle sandwich. Generosity was a virtue and I was…

— Ilona Andrews

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the…

— Oliver Goldsmith

He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of…

— William Law

I do as much charity work as I can and that my family life will allow. I do believe charity begins at…

— Jamie Lee Curtis

My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now,…

— Larry King

Trump Foundation, small foundation. People contribute, I contribute. The money goes 100 percent - 100 percent goes to different charities, including a…

— Donald Trump

If you combine all the spectral rays into a single beam, you get white light; and, if you combine all the virtues…

— Austin O'Malley

I have lived a long time, and one thing I have come to see is that one is well served by a…

— Khaled Hosseini

Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, why hate rather…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

You are meant to think before you speak. How many times is your heart involved in what you are doing? Every act…

— Jack Schwarz

Giving is the highest expression of potency. In the very act of giving, I experience my strength, my wealth, my power. This…

— Erich Fromm

My father was a man of great charity towards the poor, and compassion for the sick, and also for servants; so much…

— Anonymous

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the…

— Paulo Freire

[Altruism] is a moral system which holds that man has no right to exist for his own sake, that service to others…

— Ayn Rand

Whatever expenditure is sanctioned - even when it is sanctioned against the ministry's wish - the ministry must find the money. Accordingly,…

— Walter Bagehot

“Remember I told you I’ve taken a vow of chastity. You understand what that means, right? Yeah,” he said. “You’re very generous.…

— Robin Brande

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

— Samuel Johnson

“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

I've been doing a lot of stuff that has to do with charity and giving. I'm trying to give and not take…

— Mark Indelicato

Social motherliness has made women's struggle for liberty the loveliest synthesis of egoism and altruism.

— Ellen Key

Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don’t be afraid to aim high.

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

— Andrea Leadsom

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

— Anonymous

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