Quotes about Generosity
I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.
— Mother Teresa
True wealth is not a static thing. It is a living thing made out of the disposition of men to create and distribute the good things of life with rising standards of living.
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
Helping raise money for kids - there's nothing better than that.
— Tim Tebow
Be sure that you give the poor the aid they most need, though it be your example which leaves them far behind. If you give money, spend yourself with it, and do not merely abandon it to them.
— Henry David Thoreau
When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed.
— Mother Teresa
Charity is the form, mover, mother and root of all the virtues.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
When people say money doesn't matter, it sure as hell does when you're able to show your mother a beach house and then hand her the keys to it. That was one of the happiest moments of my life.
— Tony Robbins
I didn't fully realize it at the time, but the goal of my life was profoundly molded by this experience - to help produce, in the next generation, more Mother Teresas and less Hitlers.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.
— Maya Angelou
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
— Booker T. Washington
Do something for somebody everyday for which you do not get paid.
— Albert Schweitzer
He who lives only unto himself withers and dies, while he who forgets himself in the service of others grows and blossoms.
— Gordon Hinckley