Quotes about Generosity
The instructive admonitions, "give an account of thy stewardship,"—"occupy till I come;" are forgotten. Thus the generous and wakeful spirit of Christian Benevolence, seeking and finding every where occasions for its exercise, is exploded, and a system of decent selfishness is avowedly established in its stead; a system scarcely more to be abjured for its impiety, than to be abhorred for its cold insensibility to the opportunities of diffusing happiness.
— William Wilberforce
The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
— William Wordsworth
Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the loreOf nicely calculated less or more.
— William Wordsworth
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
— William Wordsworth
That best portion of a good man's life,His little, nameless, unremembered actsOf kindness and of love.
— William Wordsworth
The charities that soothe, and heal, and bless, are scattered at the feet of man, like flowers.
— William Wordsworth
You will make all kinds of mistakes but as long as you are generous and true and fierce you cannot hurt the world, or even seriously distress her.
— Winston Churchill
No man has ever risen to the real stature of spiritual manhood until he has found that it is finer to serve somebody else than it is to serve himself.
— Woodrow Wilson
You are not here merely to making a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement.
— Woodrow Wilson
Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.
— David Wilkerson
Love is not something you feel. It's something you do.
— David Wilkerson
The question of bread for myself is a material question, but the question of bread for my neighbor is a spiritual question.
— Nikolai Berdyaev