Generosity is produced by the heart, selfishness is approved by the mind. – Dr T.P.Chia
A sincere word of thanks is nothing but an extension of a generous self.
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return. – Peace Pilgrim
If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. – Bob Hope
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. – John Bunyan
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. – Winston Churchill
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. – Kahlil Gibran
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. – Chinese Proverb
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. – Aesop
Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Open your heart – open it wide; someone is standing outside.
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one. – Mother Teresa
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. – George Eliot
No one has ever become poor by giving. – Anne Frank
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present. – Albert Camus
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting. – Elizabeth Bibesco
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. – Robert Louis Stevenson
Don’t be yourself. Be someone a little nicer. – Mignon McLaughlin
Generosity consists not the sum given, But the manner in which it is bestowed. – Mahatma Gandhi
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. – Dalai Lama
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things that renew humanity.
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
No one is useless in this world who lighten the burdens of others.
A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal. – Steve Maraboli
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. – Winston Churchill
The law of prosperity is generosity. If you want more, give more. – Bob Proctor
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God. – Ronald Reagan
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain. – Helen Keller
The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. – Albert Einstein
Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.
Never get tired of doing little things for others, for those little things occupy the biggest part of their hearts.
I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy. – Rabindranath Tagore
Without kindness there can be no true joy. – Thomas Carlyle
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world. – Mahatma Gandhi
To know when to be generous and when to be firm – this is wisdom. – Elbert Hubbard
Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving- kindness. – The Dalai Lama
Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give. – Ben Carson
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. – Thomas Carlyle
Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go! – Victor Hugo
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. – Albert Pike
There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you’ve grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness. – Ella Wheeler Wilcox
No person was ever honored for what he received. He was honored for what he gave. – Calvin Coolidge
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. – Buddha
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation. – Corrie Ten Boom
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. – Frank A. Clark
It is through generous giving, that we affirm before the world, our nation’s faith in the inalienable right of every man, to a life of freedom, justice and security. – Harry S. Truman
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