Quotes about Generosity

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

And now and then his mind reverted to his treatment by those rude Christ's Hospital Boys, and he said, When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teaching out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved and the heart. I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

The world is beautiful and dangerous, and joyful and sad, and ungrateful and giving, and full of so, so many things. The world is new and it is old. It is big and it is small. The world is fierce and it is kind, and we, every one of us, are in it.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

You must come to see that a man may be self-centered in his self-denial and self-righteous in his self-sacrifice. His generosity may feed his ego and his piety his pride. Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and martyrdom becomes spiritual pride.

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

Never look a gift horse in the mouth.

You only get one shot in this life. So let me do all the good I can for my fellow man. For I will not pass this way again.

Forgive those who hurt you yesterday.Reward those who help you today.Remember those who help you tomorrow.

If you want your inner light to shine brighter, illuminate someone else's.