Generosity Quotes · Page 71

I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar.

— Marco Pierre White

Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.

— Audrey Hepburn

You're able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first.

— Wayne Dyer

. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.

— Vincent de Paul

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

— Simone Weil

Go out into the world and do good until there is too much good in the world.

— Larry H. Miller

The act of giving is only called generosity when the one who gives does not expect anything in return.

— Shin Chan

What we want is not power, but simply combination in order to elicit the largest possible giving.

— Lottie Moon

If you are fortunate enough to meet such a being then you will really learn selfless giving. You'll see that every second,…

— Frederick Lenz

I am proud to be part of the Toys for Tots program for a second year. In addition to giving kids the…

— Dale Jarrett

It's time to re-think charity. It's time to give charity the big-league freedoms we really give to business. The fight for these…

— Dan Pallotta

I was really young when I started on 'One Tree Hill,' and the encouragement from my friends and family has been crucial…

— Kelsey Chow

“Appearances, beauty, value and life have their unique mysteries and essence. I prefer that essence to be breathing with humility, honesty, compassion,…

— Angelica Hopes

What we have done for ourselves dies with us, but what we have done for others remains forever. We make a living…

— Sushan Sharma

My grandfather worked with charities his whole entire life, and we grew up living with him. He always told me about the…

— Ali Lohan

A survey carried out across the U.S. between 2004 and 2006 showed that frequent church- or synagogue-goers are more likely to give…

— Jonathan Sacks

Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education…

— James Madison

“In scattering the seed, scattering your 'charity,' your kind deeds, you are giving away, in one form or antoher, part of your…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“... don't invest your feelings in things. Don't invest them in people. Don't be good, considerate, honest, generous, and compassionate to others…

— Najwa Zebian

“Perhaps there is nothing greater on earth than the sacrifice of youth and beauty, often of high birth, made by the gentle…

— Voltaire

I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Effective altruism is a philosophy and social movement which tries to work out the most effective ways to improve the world. Effective…

— Jens Martin Skibsted

“In the end, the claim that just social structures would make works of charity superfluous masks a materialist conception of man: the…

— Pope Benedict XVI

As the amount of inputs go up, as the number of people and ideas that clamor for attention continue to increase, we…

— Seth Godin

A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.

— Austin O'Malley

I have learned to give, not because I have too much, but because I know the feeling of having nothing.

— Bernajoy Vaal

Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one's country.

— Sathya Sai Baba

Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.

— Warren Buffett

For charity purposes, how do I help? A lot of prospective levers and tools have come into my life.

— Eduardo Saverin

I'm on the advisory board of Alex's Lemonade Stand, which is a children's cancer charity. I'm so proud to be on that…

— Kirsten Vangsness

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

— Henry David Thoreau

The very first step toward giving to others is grateful recognition of our own assets.

— Nancy Brinker

“It's for giving something back to me, something I lost before I was able to really have it.”

— Veronica Roth

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

— Henry Ward Beecher

You showed me your generosity by giving me money with my card. Thank you.

— Anonymous

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.

— Thomas Peterffy

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible…

— Tadeusz Borowski

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

— Simon Beaufoy

The charity that I work for is the Johnson Cancer Research Foundation at UCLA. I also do work with Stand Up To…

— Maura Tierney

Civilization has been thrust upon me... and it has not added one whit to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity.

— Luther Standing Bear