Generosity Quotes · Page 69

Christmas is more that a time of festivities, family, and friends; it is a season of generosity, gladness, and gratitude.

— William Arthur Ward

Love and happiness remind me of sticky peanut butter. When you spread them around, you can't help but end up getting some…

— Anonymous

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

— Bob Hope

“An act of generosity rarely ends a man's responsibilities toward another; it tends instead to begin them.”

— Amor Towles

To be sure your life will be full and abundant, you must plan your life.

— Spencer W. Kimball

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

— Emanuel Swedenborg

An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little…

— William Shakespeare

Guilt is altruism's stock in trade, and the inducing of guilt is its only means of self-perpetuati on.

— Ayn Rand

Education confers humility, endows one with the authority to command, that will entitle one to affluence. With the help of charity and…

— Sai Baba

In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about…

— Karen Kain

Is there anything better you can do as an actress, than to use your fame for charities? I don't have the illusion…

— Jessica Biel

Too often, charity is extended to another when his actions or conduct are acceptable to us. The exhibition of charity to another…

— H. Burke Peterson

We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as…

— Davy Crockett

Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed. That's the great…

— Leonard Cohen

charity is a calm, severe duty; it must be intellectual, to be advantageous. It is a strange mistake that it should ever…

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

If you believe in practising generosity of spirit, at heart you believe in the power of an individual to make a difference…

— Gail Kelly

While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against…

— Andy Stanley

Giving primacy to God means having the courage to say ‘no’ to evil, ‘no’ to violence, ‘no’ to oppression, to live a…

— Pope Francis

“Lyor Cohen, who I consider my mentor, once told me something that he was told by a rabbi about the eight degrees…

— Jay-Z

Dâna, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he…

— Swami Vivekananda

“The Lord has made all things for Himself (Prov.xvi.4): apart from Himself there existed nothing to make them for. He made them…

— Frank Sheed

I suppose 'My Hollywood' is only as politically meaningful as it is deeply inside the least powerful of its characters. I wanted…

— Mona Simpson

I never saw love as luck, as that gift from the gods which put everything else in place, and allowed you to…

— Norman Mailer

Hope is critical to both faith and charity. When disobedience, disappointment, and procrastination erode faith, hope is there to uphold our faith.…

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

For scientific researchers, charitable donations are enormous engines of new opportunities.

— Leroy Hood

I now know that me giving my all and giving my best will result in my needs being taken care of and…

— Rachel Platten

pity and charity may be at root an attempt to propitiate the dark powers that have not touched us yet.

— Marilynne Robinson

“Showing dignity is more important than charity because the latter is easily forgotten!”

— Sarah Tse

True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need.

— Pope Francis

Shockingly, the Bidens donated under $1,000 to all charities combined every year for the ten years prior to 2008.

— Anonymous

A poor but humble man who gives nothing to charity is preferrable to a rich but haughty man who does.

— Nachman of Breslov

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

— Seth Godin

I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.

— Fred Tomaselli

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

— John Ruskin

Some are unwisely liberal, and more delight to give presents than to pay debts.

— Philip Sidney

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

— William Shakespeare

“Kindness in thinking or giving, creates profoundness and happiness. Kindness in saying creates an everlasting love"- Morgan Freeman”

— Morgan Freeman

Do not make small goals because they do not have the magic to stir men's souls.

— Spencer W. Kimball

I truly believe that generosity begets generosity. You give before you receive.

— Josh Garrels