Generosity Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Generosity
A Single Generosity Enlarges the World.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu
You cannot do a kindness too soon,
for you never know how soon it will be too late.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give me your tired, your poor,
your huddled masses yearning to breathe free.
- written on the Statue of Liberty in New York harbor
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What you leave behind is not what
is engraved in stone monuments,
but what is woven into the lives of others.
- Pericles
For some of us, the world appears to provide
only a fixed quantity of each resource -
a limited amount of food, of money,
of love, of success, of appreciation.
For others, life is unlimited.
Their world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that they contribute.
In this world-view, money that is spent
or given away returns multiplied.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is an exciting business,
and most exciting when it is lived for others.
- Helen Keller
Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity
are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
In our willingness to give that which we seek,
we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives.
- Deepak Chopra
We make a living by what we get.
We make a life by what we give.
- Winston Churchill
What I know for sure is that
what you give comes back to you.
- Oprah Winfrey
We are rich only through what we give,
and poor only through what we refuse.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us;
what we have done for others and the world
remains and is immortal.
- Albert Pike
Whosoever is spared personal pain
must feel himself called
to help in diminishing the pain of others.
We must all carry our share of
the misery which lies upon the world.
- Albert Schweitzer
Giving is the highest expression of our power.
- Vivian Greene
One can not reflect in streaming water.
Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.
- Lao Tzu
A gift consists not in what is done or given,
but in the intention of the giver or doer.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
The brightest stars are those who
shine for the benefit of others.
- Anonymous
It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.
- Mother Teresa
Your greatest gift to others is to be happy
and to radiate your happiness to the entire world.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled.
The trick is, knowing how to tip ourselves over
and let the beautiful stuff out.
- Ray Bradbury
Where there is charity and wisdom,
there is neither fear nor ignorance.
- St. Francis of Assisi
For it is in giving that we receive.
- St. Francis of Assisi
The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You can't live a perfect day without doing something
for someone who will never be able to repay you.
- John Wooden
No one can find inner peace except by working,
not in a self-centered way, but for the whole human family.
- Peace Pilgrim
Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others,
you should put a good deal of thought
into the happiness that you are able to give.
- Eleanor Roosevelt
I have found that among its other benefits,
giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- Maya Angelou
It costs you nothing to make another happy -
and you gain your true self through the act of spreading joy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle,
and the life of the candle will not be shortened.
Happiness never decreases by being shared.
- The Buddha
Extend your hand with the strongest reach.
- Mary Anne Radmacher
What do we live for, if it is not
to make life less difficult for each other?
- George Eliot
You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe
If you would take, you must first give,
this is the beginning of intelligence.
- Lao Tzu
The only wealth which you will keep forever
is the wealth you have given away.
- Marcus Aurelius
No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
- Anne Frank
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller
Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa
You can't get unless you give.
And you have to give without wanting to get.
- Theodore H. White
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Khalil Gibran
Pay It Forward.
Gift future generations in proportion to your gratitude.
The nature of life is that we pay forward
our biological creation and nurture.
Our parents gift us with life and nurture,
and we gift our children with life and nurture.
While this much is essential to continued human existence,
choose to take "pay it forward" farther - much farther.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men
who walked through the huts comforting others,
giving away their last piece of bread...
They offer sufficient proof that everything
can be taken from a man but one thing:
to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances,
to choose one's own way.
- Viktor E. Frankl
Give your time and efforts freely or not at all.
When you are tempted to say,
"Oh, if I have to, I'll skip my golf game
and watch my daughter play soccer," don't do it.
Either generate the heart-felt emotion
to make the free-will gift,
"I'd love to watch your game today, Sandy,"
or the honesty to decline the request gracefully.
Martyrdom doesn't create happiness
for any of the parties involved.
An honest, "No" is preferable to a coerced "Yes."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is unlimited - it expands with the generosity,
compassion, inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The moment you become miserly you are closed
to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing.
The moment you start clinging to things,
you have missed the target.
Because things are not the target,
you, your innermost being, is the target -
not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you;
not much money, but a rich you;
not many things, but an open being,
available to millions of things.
- Osho
The sage does not hoard.
The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself,
Having bestowed all he has on others, he has yet more;
having given all he has to others, he is richer still.
- Lao Tzu
He who obtains has little.
He who scatters has much.
- Lao Tzu
We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein
It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life,
that no man can sincerely try
to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
My world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that I contribute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I am the master of my emotions -
I transform fear to love, anger to compassion,
pain to comfort, scarcity to abundance,
expectation to gratitude, and jealousy to generosity.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman
It is my choice to care deeply about others.
No kindness is too small to be important -
the smile to the bank teller,
the sincere "thank you" for all kindnesses received,
the reassuring hand on the shoulder of a loved one or friend.
There is compassion in selfless generosity,
but there is also compassion in heartfelt empathy.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Life is unlimited.
Your world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
Money that is spent or given away returns multiplied.
The more love that is given, the more love returns.
The more a helping hand is given, the more hands
are strengthened and empowered to help.
We can help each other to all be winners.
We can all have food, and jobs, and love, and happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
The Moon Cannot Be Stolen:
A thief entered the little hut of a Zen Master,
but discovered there was nothing to steal.
The Zen Master discovered the thief.
"You have come a long way to visit me," he told the prowler,
"and you should not return empty-handed.
Please take my clothes as a gift."
The thief was bewildered,
but he took the clothes and slunk away.
The Zen Master sat naked, watching the moon.
"Poor fellow," he mused,
"I wish I could have given him this beautiful moon."
- Traditional Zen Koan
Single Quotes and Sayings
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.
- Lao Tzu (Chinese Proverb)
To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act
is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi
All the darkness of the world cannot
extinguish the light of a single candle,
yet one candle can illuminate all the darkness.
- Jewish Hanukah Prayer
Life is NOT "Supposed to be Fair."
Know that there is no single way that life is "supposed" to be.
Demanding that life meet our expectations
is a sure fire recipe for a miserable existence.
Life is a game with no rules.
Life just happens to us regardless of our best intentions.
Our only path to happiness lies in being open
to receiving whatever life throws at us -
with Gratitude. Have NO Expectations of life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
As a single footstep will not make a path on the earth,
so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind.
To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again.
To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over
the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives.
- Henry David Thoreau
A single event can awaken a stranger totally unknown to us.
To live is to be slowly born.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Do the difficult things while they are easy
and do the great things while they are small.
A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
- Lao Tzu
All the great things are simple,
and many can be expressed in a single word:
freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
- Winston Churchill
How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment
before starting to improve the world.
- Anne Frank
Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor,
nor should life rest on a single hope.
- Epictetus
Confidence is the most important single factor in this game,
and no matter how great your natural talent,
there is only one way to obtain and sustain it: work.
- Jack Nicklaus
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- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
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