Being Generous Quotes

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself and everything that arrived into my life, then I was prosperous.

Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

If you haven’t got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance —

Who will be the happiest person?
The one who brings happiness to others.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

The poor can’t wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Doing more and more with less and less is one form of being generous. In fact, the easiest way to become rich is by being generous.

I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.

No touching Baby Jesus.” “But we’re his parents!” proclaimed Mary Beth, who was being generous to include poor Joseph under this appellation. “Mary Beth,” Barb Wiggin said, “if you touch the Baby Jesus, I’m putting you in a cow costume.

A mind that’s open to everything means being peaceful, radiating love, practicing forgiveness, being generous, respecting all life, and most important, visualizing yourself as capable of doing anything that you can conceive of in your mind and heart.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It’s just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don’t buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.

Being generous, just helping one’s relatives and being blameless in one’s actions; this is the best good luck.

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.

When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losing and making the other person win and have a happy face. Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.

Being generous without keeping score strengthens your spirit, keeps you focused on the people who make your business what it is, and helps breed success.

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.