Quotes about Generosity

For a man does not serve that he may put men under obligations. He does not distinguish between friends and enemies or anticipate their thankfulness or unthankfulness, but he most freely and most willingly spends himself and all that he has, whether he wastes all on the thankless or whether he gains a reward.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

There is no small act of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

Sally said with wide-eyed innocence, "I think you're pretty too, Pa." Clay seemed taken aback for a moment, then he smiled down at Sally and chucked her under the chin with his gloved fist. "Well, thank you darlin'. I reckon that's about the sweetest thing anyone's ever said to me.

The best gift of Christmas is a child, of course. But the next best is giving time and talent to help one another.

Owe nothing to anyone except to love one another; for he who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law.

Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance.

Love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.

I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt, only more love.

The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.