Quotes about Generosity
The world is beautiful and dangerous, and joyful and sad, and ungrateful and giving, and full of so, so many things. The world is new and it is old. It is big and it is small. The world is fierce and it is kind, and we, every one of us, are in it.
— Mark Twain
Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
You must come to see that a man may be self-centered in his self-denial and self-righteous in his self-sacrifice. His generosity may feed his ego and his piety his pride. Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and martyrdom becomes spiritual pride.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
If you're feeling helpless, help someone.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
Never look a gift horse in the mouth.
— St. Jerome
You only get one shot in this life. So let me do all the good I can for my fellow man. For I will not pass this way again.
— Anonymous
Forgive those who hurt you yesterday.Reward those who help you today.Remember those who help you tomorrow.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want your inner light to shine brighter, illuminate someone else's.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
If you want to double your happiness, pour it into someone else.
— Matshona Dhliwayo