Quotes about Generosity
The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do more for the betterment of life.
— Henry Ford
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
— Arthur Ashe
Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.
— Emily Bronte
It ended. Well, we must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering - and it ended when circumstances caused each to feel that one's interest was not the chief consideration in the other's thoughts.
— Emily Bronte
No kind action ever stops with itself. One kind action leads to another. Good example is followed. A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees. The greatest work that kindness does to others is that it makes them kind themselves.
— Amelia Earhart
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.
— Andrew Carnegie
No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.
— Andrew Carnegie
The measure of life is not its duration, but its donation.
— Peter Marshall
It is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Other than scoring touchdowns, that's probably the thing that makes me the most happy. Helping other people.
— Mike Evans
Giving is above what we owe God, and that is our tithes.
— David Green
If you've opened your loving to God's love, you're helping people you don't know and have never seen.
— Peter Scazzero