Generosity Quotes

May 2

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

May 5

Do all the good you can,

By all the means you can,

In all the ways you can,

In all the places you can,

At all the times you can,

To all the people you can,

As long as ever you can. – John Wesley

May 6

Be the change you want to see in the world. – Mahatma Gandhi

May 7

The giving of love is an education in itself. – Eleanor Roosevelt

May 8

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

May 12

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

May 13

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. – Martin Luther King Jr.

May 14

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service to others – Leo Tolstoy

May 15

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate, and generous – not just to some people in some circumstances – but to everyone all the time. – Thomas Watson

May 16

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one. – Mother Teresa

May 19

We cannot do great things on this Earth, only small things with great love. – Mother Teresa

May 20

Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own. - Jackson Brown Jr.

May 21

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. – Mitch Albom

May 22

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

May 27

To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children...to leave the world a better place...to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

May 28

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

May 29

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. – Mother Teresa

May 30

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

– Albert Einstein