Generosity Sayings and Quotes

"We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest."
Orison Swett Marden

"Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting."
Elizabeth Bibesco

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
Winston Churchill

"To know when to be generous and when to be firm — this is wisdom."
Elbert Hubbard

"What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost."
Robert of Doncaste

"Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others."
Barbara Bush

"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."
Seneca

"Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars and keep your feet on the ground."
Theodore Roosevelt

"Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving."
Og Mandino

"Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present."
Albert Camus

"To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue: gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."
Confucius

"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out."
Frank A. Clark

"Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have."
Jim Rohn

"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

"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege."
John D. Rockefeller Jr

"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."
Kahlil Gibran

"Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear."
Jean-Paul Sartre

"Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow."
Thornton Wilder

"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."
John Bunyon

"There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life -- happiness, freedom, and peace of mind -- are always attained by giving them to someone else."
Peyton Conway March

"Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed."
Author Unknown

"Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity."
Buddha

"There is more happiness in giving than in receiving."
Acts, 20:35

"The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed."
Alfred Montapert

"Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice."
Marquis de Vauvenargues

"The love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All that He has, all that He is, He gives; all that we are, all that we have, He takes."
Jan van Ruysbroeck

"Do something for somebody every day for which you do not get paid."
Albert Schweitzer

"You are so fortunate, but what are you giving back to make this world a better place for others?"
Catherine Pulsifer