32 Generosity Quotes And Sayings Inspiring Gratitude And Giving

I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.
- C.S. Lewis

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

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
- Simone de Beauvoir

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment , or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
- Leo Buscaglia

All of us, at some time or other, need help. Whether we're giving or receiving help, each one of us has something valuable to bring to this world. That's one of the things that connects us as neighbors — in our own way, each one of us is a giver and a receiver.
- Fred Rogers

Remember that the happiest people are not those getting more, but those giving more.
- H. Jackson Brown Jr.

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

You cannot continue to succeed in the world or have a fulfilling life in the world unless you choose to use your life in the service somehow to others and give back what you have been given. That's how you keep it. That's how you get it. That's how you grow it.
- Oprah Winfrey

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

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands — one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
- Audrey Hepburn

The more one forgets himself - by giving himself to a cause to serve or another person to love - the more human he is.
- Viktor E. Frankl

It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.
- Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.
- Alan Cohen

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.
- Elizabeth Gilbert

When you're in a position to have gotten so much, the gift at this point is giving back.
- Paul Stanley ‍

What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.
- Deanna Raybourn

Gratitude begins in our hearts and then dovetails into behavior. It almost always makes you willing to be of service, which is where the joy resides. It means that you are willing to stop being such a jerk. When you are aware of all that has been given to you, in your lifetime and the past few days, it is hard not to be humbled, and pleased to give back.
- Anne Lamott

Rings and jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- Kahlil Gibran

The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away.
- Fred Rogers

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by generosity, and the liar by speaking the truth.
- Siddhārtha Gautama

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

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.
- Fred Rogers

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
- Simone Weil

No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
- Sir Winston Churchill

It requires neither time nor money to be kind.
- Cathy Burnham Martin

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
- Aesop

Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.
- Muhammad Ali

You don't have to be rich to give; your gift can be as simple as a smile.
- Frank Sonnenberg

We can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.
- Muhammad Ali

Humanity needs givers, not takers.
- Maxime Legace