Quotes about Generosity

remarked: [I]f our expenditure on comforts, luxuries, amusements , etc., is up to the standard common among those with the same income as our own, we are probably giving away too little. If our charities do not at all pinch or hamper us, I should say they are too small. There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditure excludes them.4

Fast offerings are used for one purpose only: to bless the lives of those in need.

If you give, you will be blessed.

Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.

There is no beautifier of complexion, or form, or behavior, like the wish to scatter joy and not pain around us.

The only true gift is a portion of thyself.

One of the most beautiful compensations in life is that no person can help another without helping themselves

Without a rich heart, wealth is an ugly beggar

You can never do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

I shall pass this way but once; any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any human being, let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

For it is a fire that kindling its first embers in the narrow nook of a private bosom, caught from a wandering spark out of another private heart, glows and enlarges until it warms and beams upon multitudes of men and women, upon the universal heart of all, and so lights up the whole world and all nature with its generous flames.

Learn how to carry a friendship greatly, whether or not it is returned. Why should one regret if the receiver is not equally generous? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion. If he is unequal, he will presently pass away; but thou art enlarged by thy own shining.