585 Quotes About Generosity

He that enjoys the ocean may rejoice, though some drugs may be taken from him.

So unworldly was he--or so capricious--that he frequently refused his help to the powerful and wealthy where the problem made no appeal to his sympathies, while he would devote weeks of most intense application to the affairs of some humble client whose case presented those strange and dramatic qualities which appealed to his imagination and challenged his ingenuity.

True kindness is not necessarily giving something to someone who is down, but showing them that they still have something to give to get back up.

A poor person feeding another poor! And this is the ultimate generosity!

The only wealth that mattered was affinity and generosity. Affinity towards oneself and generosity towards the world itself.

Generosity says a great deal about a person's emotional and spiritual development. When it's hard to give, or it feels like ripping away a part of the self, we are still anchored in our attachments or stories we've created about scarcity. If this applies to you, make friends with the part of you that feels resentful or finds it difficult to give.

The giver is always worth more than the gift.

The best things to do with the best things in life is to give them away.

I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.