Generosity Quotes

"Wealth shines in giving rather than in hoarding: for the miser is hateful, whereas the generous man is applauded."

- Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius

"Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ... and then cackles."

- Henry Ward Beecher

"Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment."

- Jean de La Bruyère

"Getters generally don’t get happiness; givers get it."

- Charles H. Burr

"We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give."

- Winston Churchill

"It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than it is to earn it in the first place."

- Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919), American industrialist and philanthropist

"Give naught, get same. Give much, get same."

- Malcolm Forbes (1919-90), American publisher

"Give what you have. To someone it may be better than you dare to think."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"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."

- Horace Mann (1796-1859), American educator and politician

"No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give."

- French Proverb

"He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers."

- Francis Quarles

"Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left."

- Bishop Fulton J. Sheen

"Generosity is to materialism what kryptonite is to Superman."

- Lloyd Shadrach

"The measure of a life is not its duration, but its donation."

- Peter Marshall

"Examples are few of men ruined by giving."

- Christian Bovee

"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege."

- John D. Rockefeller Jr.

"The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident."

- Francesco Guicciardini

"You only get to keep what you give away."

- Sheldon Kopp

"He who gives while he lives, gets to know where it goes."

- Percy Ross

"He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more."

- William S. Plumer

"God loves a cheerful giver!"

- Brian Kluth

"If I cannot give bountifully, yet will I give freely."

- Arthur Warwick

"Mother's love grows by giving."

- Charles Lamb

"Train yourself to strive for giving, rather than receiving."

- Gaius Musonius Rufus

"Real charity doesn’t care if it’s tax deductible or not."

"The Dead Sea is the dead sea because it continually receives and never gives."

"Charity begins at home and generally dies from lack of outdoor exercise."

"When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing. Giving to God is a grace—but not giving to God is a disgrace."

"Sprinkle kindness like confetti this weekend."

"Kindness is free. Scatter it like confetti this weekend."