Quotes about Generosity
When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor.
— Norman Vincent Peale
I do not forget any good deed done to me & I do not carry a grudge for a bad one.
— Viktor E. Frankl
money can be repaid, but not kindness such as yours.
— Vincent Van Gogh
I will honor Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year.
— Charles Dickens
Christ came to transform us from never enough people - to more than enough people; that through his poverty we may become rich.
— Miroslav Volf
One must know not just how to accept a gift, but with what grace to share it.
— Maya Angelou
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting.
— Thomas Monson
This Christmas and every Christmas will be richer by sharing and enjoying gifts that cannot be held but only felt.
— James Faust
When you with velvets mantled o'er, Defy December's tempests frore, Oh! spare one garment from your store, To clothe the poor at Christmas.
— GK Chesterton
It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride.
— Louis Bourdaloue
We respond to healing grace by giving it away.
— Philip Yancey