A sincere word of thanks is nothing but an extension of a generous self.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
– Kahlil Gibran
Never get tired of doing little things for others, for those little things occupy the biggest part of their hearts.
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
– John Bunyan
Generosity is produced by the heart, selfishness is approved by the mind.
– Dr T.P.Chia
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
– Aesop
Pure love is a willingness to give without a thought of receiving anything in return.
– Peace Pilgrim
Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns.
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
– Elizabeth Bibesco
Do your giving while you’re living, so you’re knowing where it’s going.
The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.
– Albert Einstein
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
– Dalai Lama
Plant flowers in others’ gardens and your life becomes a bouquet!
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.
– Chinese Proverb
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
– Winston Churchill
Life is short, but there is always time enough for courtesy.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
– Mahatma Gandhi
If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.
– Bob Hope
There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile.
– Kenneth McFarland
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
– Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
– Albert Camus
If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.
– Mother Teresa
That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
– Simone de Beauvoir
In order to be remembered, leave nothing behind but goodness.
Live simply, love generously, care deeply, speak kindly, leave the rest to God.
– Ronald Reagan
A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things that renew humanity.
A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men.
– Thomas Carlyle
A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.
– Steve Maraboli
Open your heart – open it wide; someone is standing outside.
One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.
– George Eliot
If you want to call attention to your good deed then it isn’t a good deed, it’s a self- serving one. Why? Not only have you patted yourself on the back but you’re fishing for others to do the same.
– Donna Lynn Hope
No one has ever become poor by giving.
– Anne Frank
I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity.
– George H. W. Bush
Minds, nevertheless, are not conquered by arms, but by love and generosity.
– Baruch Spinoza
Generosity: The habit of giving freely without expecting anything in return.
You do not have to be rich to be generous.
Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!
– Victor Hugo
The law of prosperity is generosity. If you want more, give more.
– Bob Proctor
Your time is the greatest gift you can give to someone.
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.
– Winston Churchill
Be generous in giving and grateful in receiving.
As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.
– Mary Anne Radmacher
Think of giving not as a duty, but as a privilege.
– John D. Rockefeller
God loves a cheerful giver.
It’s good to be blessed. It’s better to be a blessing.
You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
– Jean- Paul Sartre
Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving- kindness.
– The Dalai Lama
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.
– Seneca
No one is useless in this world who lighten the burdens of others.
Don’t be yourself. Be someone a little nicer.
– Mignon McLaughlin
With gentleness, overcome anger. With generosity, overcome meanness. With truth. overcome delusion.
– The Buddha
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
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.
– Robert Louis Stevenson
True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations.
– Suze Orman
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
– Khalil Gibran
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
What I spent I had; what I saved I lost; what I gave, I have.
When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.
– Jean Jacques Rousseau
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
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
It is a powerful practice to be generous when you are the one feeling in need.
– Allan Lokos
Happiness is not made by what we own. It is what we share.
– Rabbi Jonathan Sacks
You will discover that you have two hands. One is for helping yourself and the other is for helping others.
– Audrey Hepburn
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
– Simon
If we can all give a little more to others, we will not only be be better people ourselves, but the world will be a better place.
Sometime when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways, it can change someone else’s life forever.
– Margaret Cho
The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
– William James
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly and without hesitation; for there is little grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
– Seneca
Generosity consists not the sum given,
But the manner in which it is bestowed.
– Mahatma Gandhi
You can give to a friend in need, someone who is struggling or to your community. The great thing about giving is that you can do it anytime and anywhere. You just need to think about others and how you can help them.
The measure of a life, after all, is not its duration, but its donation.
– Corrie Ten Boom
If you are not generous with a meager income, you will never be generous with abundance.
– Harold Nye
Being generous often consists of simply extending a hand. That’s hard to do if you are grasping tightly to your righteousness, your belief system, your superiority, your assumptions about others, your definition of normal.
– Patti Digh
No person was ever honored for what he received. He was honored for what he gave.
– Calvin Coolidge
Treat everyone you meet as if they are God in drag.
– Ram Dass
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
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.
– John Templeton
It is better to return a borrowed pot with a little something you last cooked in it.
– Omaha
Nothing is impossible to the willing heart.
– John Heywood
I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts.
– Mother Teresa
You make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even seriously distress her.
– Winston Churchill
To know when to be generous and when to be firm – this is wisdom.
– Elbert Hubbard
How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!
– George Elliston
Be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud.
– Maya Angelou
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.
Generosity is the flower of justice.
– Nathaniel Hawthorne
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
The man who dies rich dies disgraced.
Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.
– Ben Carson
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.
– Pablo Picasso
One hand for yourself and one for the ship.
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, and create shade where you do not necessarily expect to sit.
Without kindness there can be no true joy.
– Thomas Carlyle
Love someone who doesn’t deserve it.
As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give?
– Jack Kornfield
When one loves, one does not calculate.
Anybody can earn and die, leaving a will and legacy. Only the courageous ones can give away all they have while they are alive.
– RVM
Poor people share with the heart.
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
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
– Frank A. Clark
My generosity stems from not treating my renewable resources as finite; my stupidity from treating my finite resources as renewable.
– Alan Robert Neal
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
– Madame Curie
A thing is bigger for being shared.
– Gaelic
Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.
– Alan Cohen
He gives twice who gives quickly.
– Italian proverb
He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.
– Samuel Johnson
You may light another’s candle at your own without loss.
From the heart it has come, to the heart it shall go.
– Beethoven
Go into the world and do well. But more importantly, go into the world and do good.
– Minor Myers
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Giving is God’s way. It is the way that I now understand is the truth of the Universe. Giving multiplies me and makes me feel complete and fulfilled. Giving makes me feel that I make a real and important difference.
– Mark Victor Hansen and Robert G. Allen
How lovely to think that no one need wait a moment. We can start now, start slowly, changing the world. How lovely that everyone, great and small, ca make a contribution toward introducing justice straightaway. And you can always, always give something, even if it is only kindness!
Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
– John Wesley
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.
– Barbara Bush
One would give generous alms if one had the eyes to see the beauty of a cupped receiving hand.
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
No true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance- the feeling that we have enough to share.
– Buddha
Success in life comes does not come from what we have, but from what we give. Giving someone a present is one type of generosity. But, giving your time, your talents or your friendship can make an even bigger difference.
Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
– Tenzin Gyatso
Nothing in life means anything unless someone cares, and the whole trick is to keep being that someone.
– Robert Brault
What you do to others will bear fruit in you.
Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.
– Jonathan Maberry
Life is not about giving up or giving in. Life is about giving.
– Anthony Douglas Williams
As you give more to others, you will see more good come from this. Their joy and your joy. It feels good to give.
We must try to contribute joy to the world. That is true no matter what our problems, our health, our circumstances. We must try. I didn’t always know this and am happy I lived long enough to find out.
Nice words are free, so choose ones that please anothers ears.
I wondered why somebody didn’t do something. Then I realized, I am somebody.
Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed
It is said that you can’t take it with you; I say there are two things you can take with you: the things you do for others and the things you do to others
– Harold h. cornett, jr.
When you help someone up a hill, you get that much closer to the top yourself.
– Mary Engelgreit
The millionaires in eternity are the givers in time.
It is the heart that does the giving; the fingers only let go.
Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.
– Bishop Fulton J. Sheen