Quotes about Generosity
Are we truly obeying the command to love our neighbor as ourselves if we're storing up money for potential future needs when our neighbor is laboring today under actual present needs?
— Randy Alcorn
God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.
— Randy Alcorn
if I try to make only enough money for my family' immediate needs, it may violate Scripture. ...Even though earning just enough to meet the needs of my family may seem nonmaterialistic, it's actually selfish when I could earn enough to care for others as well.
— Randy Alcorn
Make sure you're always giving, way more than you're taking
— Reba McEntire
To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.
— Henry B. Eyring
A contemplation of God's works, a generous concern for the good of mankind, and the unfeigned exercise of humility only, denominate men great and glorious.
— Joseph Addison
Man is born for deeds of kindness.
— Marcus Aurelius
What a man does for himself, dies with him. What a man does for his community lives long after he's gone.
— Theodore Roosevelt
A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.
— John Milton
Kindness is a language heard by deaf men and felt by blind men.
— Mark Twain
There can never be success without happiness, and no man can be happy without dispensing happiness to others.
— Napoleon Hill
Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.
— Henry David Thoreau