Quotes about Generosity
Men's giving can only be to a certain extent: but God's is without limit.
— J. Sidlow Baxter
Men are rich only as they give. He who gives great service gets great rewards.
— Elbert Hubbard
If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.
— Dante Alighieri
The gifted man bears his gifts into the world, not for his own benefit, but for the people among whom he is placed; for the gifts are not his, he himself is a gift to the community.
— Henry Ford
A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others.
— Andrew Carnegie
Men are more compassionate/(nobler)/magnanimous/generous than God; for men forgive their dead, but God does not.
— Mark Twain
If you love and serve man, you cannot, by any hiding or stratagem, escape remuneration.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man's greatest happiness comes from losing himself for the good of others.
— David O. McKay
Wouldn't it be well to give some of your bouquets before a man dies, and not go and load down his coffin? He can't enjoy them then.
— DL Moody
The knowledge that I have acquired must not remain imprisoned in my brain. I owe it to many men and women to do something with it. I feel the need to pay back what was given to me. Call it gratitude.
— Elie Wiesel
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin.
— Aristotle
A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.
— Confucius