Generosity
232 quotes: 42 by Keith Craft, 190 from other voices.
Other voices on Generosity
- It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man I will oblige a great many that are not so.
- It is good for us to think that no grace or blessing is truly ours till we are aware that God has blessed some one else with it through us.
- It is impossible to be just, if one is not generous.
- It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another, without helping himself.
- It should be a joy to hold a candle to another. It will not waste our own light to impart it.
- It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.
- It's not that successful people are givers; it is that givers are successful people.
- Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.
- Let a man overcome anger by love, let him overcome evil by good; let him overcome the greedy by liberality, the liar by truth!
- Let him who neglects to raise the fallen, fear lest, when he falls, no one will stretch out his hand to lift him up.
- Let us give something to each person we meet: joy, courage, hope, assurance, or philosophy, wisdom, a vision for the future. Let us always give something.
- Let's be the kind of people that do good for others whether we get paid back or not, whether they say thank you or not.
- Life gives to the give and takes from the taker.Mark Victor HansenCommonly attributed
- Life is a reciprocal exchange. To move forward, you have to give back.
- Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
- Life is not about getting and having, it’s about giving and being.
- Live simply so others may simply live.
- Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives.
- Love gives itself, but is not bought.
- Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
- Make all you can, save all you can, give all you can.
- Money spent on ourselves may be a millstone about the neck; spent on others it may give us wings like eagles.
- Multiply your acts of kindness, and you teach the recipient to return them.
- My friends, Dr. King realized that the only real wealth comes from helping others.César ChávezSourced
- Nay, sure, Sir, it is better to LIVE rich than to DIE rich.
- No one has ever become poor by giving. If you act that way, then after a few generations people will no longer have to feel sorry for child beggars, because there will no longer be any!
- No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.
- Nothing you have not given away will ever really be yours.
- One kernel is felt in a hogshead; one drop of water helps to swell the ocean; a spark of fire helps to give light to the world. None are too small, too feeble, too poor to be of service. Think of this and act.
- One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!
- Only those who have learned the power of sincere and selfless contribution experience life's deepest joy: true fulfillment.
- Optimize your generosity. No one on their deathbed has ever regretted giving too much away.
- Our gifts and attainments are not only to be light and warmth in our own dwellings, but are to shine through the window, into the dark night, to guide and cheer bewildered travellers on the road.
- Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
- Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities, we gain only as we give.
- Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities. We gain only as we give. There is no beggar so destitute as he who can afford nothing to his neighbor.
- Over a long enough timeline you get what you give. Go positive and go first.
- Parents focus too much on grades and goals, and too little on generosity. Kids raised to be kind are more successful in school and work — and happier too. At family dinner, don’t just ask kids what they achieved. Ask who they helped and who helped them.
- Public sentiment will come to be, that the man who dies rich dies disgraced.