Quotes about Generosity
You can't get mercy unless you give it. You can't receive compassion unless you give it.
— Oprah Winfrey
When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another.
— Oprah Winfrey
I've always known that life is better when you share it. But I now realize it gets even sweeter when you expand the circle.
— Oprah Winfrey
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.
— Oscar Wilde
Those who have much are often greedy; those who have little often share.
— Oscar Wilde
Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic.
— Oscar Wilde
Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.
— Confucius
A man of humanity is one who, in seeking to establish himself, finds a foothold for others and who, in desiring attaining himself, helps others to attain.
— Confucius
Act with kindness but do not expect gratitude.
— Confucius
He who wishes to secure the good of others, has already secured his own.
— Confucius
For the sharing of bread is not such a simple thing nor is its acknowledgement. Whatever thanks be given, however spoke or written down.
— Cormac McCarthy
Those people would take you in and put you up and feed you and feed your horse and cry when you left.
— Cormac McCarthy