Quotes about Generosity
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness, and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.
— Og Mandino
Unless a life is lived for others, it is not worthwhile.
— Mother Teresa
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others.
— Helen Keller
You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
— Zig Ziglar
We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.
— Winston Churchill
Only a life lived for others is a life worth while.
— Albert Einstein
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
— Winston Churchill
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
— John Wooden
The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.
— Mark Twain
Never get into family fights over material things; give them up willingly, and your moral standing will increase in proportion.
— Marcus Aurelius
Focus on serving others. ... No matter what is going on around us, we can attend to the people in front of us, to the issues confronting us and there, we offer what we can. We can offer insight and compassion. We can be present. We can stay and not flee. We can be exemplars of the best human qualities. That is a life well lived, even if we didn't save the world.
— Margaret J. Wheatley
If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
— Marianne Williamson