Selected generosity quotes

1. Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

2. Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

3. It's not what you give, it's the way you give it.

4. Someday I hope to write a book where the royalties will pay for the copies I give away.

5. The man who has received a benefit ought always to remember it, but he who has granted it ought to forget the fact at once.

6. The love we give away is the only love we keep.

7. The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

8. Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

9. We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.

10. In charity there is no excess.

11. True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.

12. Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse.

13. The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

14. What is Friendship? Something deep That the heart can spend and keep: Wealth that greatens while we give, Praise that heartens us to live.

15. I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

16. For when I gave you an inch, you took an ell.

17. How much easier is it to be generous than just.

18. It is when we ask for love less and begin giving it more that the basis of human love is revealed to us.

19. Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.

20. When it comes to giving love, the opportunities are unlimited, and we are all gifted.

21. What love we've given, we'll have forever. What love we fail to give, will be lost for all eternity.

22. When you give each other everything, it becomes an even trade. Each wins all.

23. You try to give away what you want yourself.

24. I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.

25. I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

26. To be able to give away riches is mandatory if you wish to possess them. This is the only way that you will be truly rich.

27. What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you.

28. When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.

29. A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.

30. For me, success is being able to give back to your friends, your family, your community, those in need and the world entire.

31. What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

32. You must remember always to give, of everything you have. You must give foolishly even. You must be extravagant. You must give to all who come into your life. Then nothing and no one shall have power to cheat you of anything, for if you give to a thief, he cannot steal from you, and he himself is then no longer a thief. And the more you give, the more you will have to give.

33. Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

34. I sit at my table en grand seigneur, And when I have done, throw a crust to the poor; Not only the pleasure, one's self, of good living, But also the pleasure of now and then giving. So pleasant it is to have money, heigh ho! So pleasant it is to have money.

35. As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.

36. Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

37. Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it.

38. Poor Nations are hungry, and rich Nations are proud, and Pride and Hunger will ever be at Variance.

39. He who obtains has little; he who scatters has much.

40. 'Never ask for anything! Never for anything, and especially from those who are stronger than you. They'll make the offer themselves, and give everything themselves.'

41. Give of thy love, nor wait to know the worth Of what thou lovest; and ask no returning. And wheresoe'er thy pathway leads on earth, There thou shalt find the lamp of love-light burning.

42. 'Give,' said the little stream, 'Give, oh give, give, oh give,' As it hurried down the hill. 'I am small, I know, but wherever I go The fields grow greener still.'

43. ?No me mires mas! Si quieres te dare mis ojos, que son frescos, y mis espaldas para que te compongas la joroba que tienes.

44. Tel homme est ingrat, qui est moins coupable de son ingratitude que celui qui lui a fait du bien.

45. On ne donne rien si liberalement que ses conseils.

46. Il n'est pas si dangereux de faire du mal a la plupart des hommes que de leur faire trop de bien.

47. La reconnaissance de la plupart des hommes n'est qu'une secrete envie de recevoir de plus grands bienfaits.

48. Send some roses to Mrs Upjohn and put 'Emily, I love you' on the back of the bill.

49. Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

50. Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then give all you can.

51. Cultivo una rosa blanca En julio como en enero, Para el amigo sincero Que me da su mano franca. Y para el cruel que me arranca El corazon con que vivo, Cardo ni ortiga cultivo, Cultivo una rosa blanca.

52. Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. He who seeks it elsewhere will not find it for, having drunk from all the glasses of life, he will find satisfaction only in those.

53. Through a marvelous law of natural compensation, he who gives of himself grows, and he who turns inward and lives from small pleasures, is afraid to share them with others, and only thinks avariciously of cultivating his appetites loses his humanity and becomes loneliness itself. He carries in his breast all the dreariness of winter. He becomes in fact and appearance an insect.

54. Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything.

55. The hand that gives is above the hand that takes. Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain.

56. Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt; It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.

57. People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves.

58. The way to grow grand is not: to demand. In life's every field you are what you yield.

59. Inopi beneficium bis dat, qui dat celeriter.

60. Affluence separates people. Poverty knits 'em together. You got some sugar and I don't; I borrow some of yours. Next month you might not have any flour; well, I'll give you some of mine.

61. The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just.

62. As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

63. If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

64. That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.