Quotes about Generosity

No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.

The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

A man should make all he can, and give all he can.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.

A happy man or woman is a better thing to find than a five-pound note. He or she is a radiating focus of goodwill; and their entrance into a room is as though another candle had been lighted.

Ah! There you are! he exclaimed, looking at Jean Valjean. I'm so glad to see you. Well, but how is this? I gave you the candlesticks too, which are of silver like the rest, and for which you can certainly get two hundred francs. Why did you not carry them away with your forks and spoons?

The first proof of charity in a priest, especially a bishop, is poverty.

Is it not when the fall is the lowest that charity ought to be the greatest?

Do not ask the name of the person who asks you for a bed for a night. He whose name is a burden to him needs shelter more than any one.

You need not tell me who you are. This is not my house; it is the house of Christ. It does not ask any comer whether he has a name but whether he has an affliction.