Quotes about Generosity

I'm all for scattering sunshine as we pass. As Stevenson says, we shall pass this way but once--and I devoutly hope he's right.

He had been taught that bread unshared is bread unblessed when someone else is hungry, whether man or beast, friend or stranger.

The grateful heart will always find opportunities to show its gratitude.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.

What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

We need grace in our lives, and I'm not talking about heavenly grace. I'm talking about human grace. We should try and be warm and friendly.

We will be a country of generosity and warmth. But we will also be a country of law and order.

Do not withhold good . . . when it is in your power to do it.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic.

The only true gift is a portion of yourself.

To laugh often and love much... to appreciate beauty, to find the best in others, to give one's self... this is to have succeeded.