Quotes about Generosity

It is Easy to be a Hater. Go for the difficult Task: be a Lover!

We are here to add what we can to life, not to get what we can from it.

If you give to a thief he cannot steal from you, and he is then no longer a thief.

In the time of your life, live—so that in that good time there shall be no ugliness or death for yourself or for any life your life touches.

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.

The first glass is for myself, the second for my friends, the third for good humor, and the forth for my enemies.

The instructive admonitions, "give an account of thy stewardship,"—"occupy till I come;" are forgotten. Thus the generous and wakeful spirit of Christian Benevolence, seeking and finding every where occasions for its exercise, is exploded, and a system of decent selfishness is avowedly established in its stead; a system scarcely more to be abjured for its impiety, than to be abhorred for its cold insensibility to the opportunities of diffusing happiness.

The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the loreOf nicely calculated less or more.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

That best portion of a good man's life,His little, nameless, unremembered actsOf kindness and of love.

The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers.