Quotes about Generosity
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Never will I pursue happiness, because it is not a goal, just a by-product, and there is no happiness in having or in getting, only in giving.
— Og Mandino
Street cred is hard won and Destiny requires you to pay it forward. God helps you through hard times so you can help someone else.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Funny how often something she'd been so certain she needed turned out not to be a need at all, but a want--when the real 'need' was something else entirely. Something that could only be gained by giving, not by getting.
— Tamera Alexander
I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'
— Joseph Addison
The rich man is not one who is in possession of much, but one who gives much.
— St. John Chrysostom
No man becomes rich unless he enriches others.
— Andrew Carnegie
The rich man who gives to the poor does not bestow alms but pays a debt.
— Ambrose of Milan
The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
— Hilaire Belloc
A man should make all he can, and give all he can.
— Nelson Rockefeller
Men are only as great as they are kind.
— Elbert Hubbard
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.
— John Stott