Generosity Quotes

""You give little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.""

- Kahil Gibran

""It is only in the giving of oneself to others that we truly live.""

- Ethel Percy Andrus

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

- Albert Camus

""In the long run, we get no more than we have been willing to risk giving.""

- Sheldon Kopp

""The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.""

- Orison Swett Marden

""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

""Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.""

- Andre Gide

""No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.""

- Calvin Coolidge

""Giving opens the way for receiving.""

- Florence Scovel Shinn

""I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.""

- Maya Angelou

""We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.""

- Mother Teresa

""A generous man will prosper; he who refreshes others will be refreshed.""

- Proverbs 11:25

""Giving money effectively is almost as hard as earning it in the first place.""

- Bill Gates

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

- John D. Rockefeller

""The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving.""

- Albert Einstein

""To give away money is an easy matter and in any man’s power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man’s power nor an easy matter.""

- Aristotle

""It’s easy to make a buck. It’s a lot tougher to make a difference.""

- Tom Brokaw

""Helping people doesn’t have to be an unsound financial strategy.""

- Melinda Gates

""Love only grows by sharing. You can only have more for yourself by giving it away to others.""

- Brian Tracy

""The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.""

- Henry David Thoreau

""Share your knowledge. It is a way to achieve immortality.""

- Dalai Lama XIV

""A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses.""

- Chinese Proverb

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

- Bob Hope

"You get what you give."

- Jennifer Lopez

"Here is a simple but powerful rule: always give people more than what they expect to get."

- Nelson Boswell

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

- Jim Rohn

"You cannot receive what you don’t give. Outflow determines inflow."

- Eckhart Tolle

""The price of living is giving.""

""Sacrifice is giving up something good for something better.""

""Life is an echo—what you send out comes back.""