Quotes about Generosity
Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us… Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others.
— Desmond Tutu
We only have what we give.
— Isabel Allende
the best use of one's life is to spend it for something that will outlast it. Life's value is not its duration but its donation—not how long we live but how fully and how well.1
— J. Oswald Sanders
The real spiritual leader is focused on the service he and she can render to God and other people, not on the residuals and perks of high office or holy title. We must aim to put more into life than we take out.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Lord, plant a seed of kindness in my heart and let it grow so big that I just have to share it with everyone I meet.
— Louie Giglio
A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
He that does good to another does good also to himself.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
If you'll dare to take your mind off your troubles, get your mind off your own needs and, instead, seek to be a blessing to other people, God will do more for you than you could even ask or think.
— Joel Osteen
Sin easily hides where there is no heat of trials and afflictions. In times of prosperity and success, even a wicked man will seem kind and generous. Under the heat of trials, however, the impurities surface.
— John Bevere
You cannot enjoy others until you enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.
— John Maxwell
A Chinese proverb says, "Those who drink the water must remember those who dug the well." Gratitude is one of the most attractive of all personal attributes;
— John Maxwell
Getters generally don't get happiness; givers get it.
— John Maxwell