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| Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. | | Albert Camus | |
| Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others. | | George Santayana | |
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| The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity | | Jean-Paul Sartre | |
| The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. | | Albert Einstein | |
| There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. | | John Andrew Holmes | |
| There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his. | | Eric Hoffer | |
| Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. | | Buddha | |
| To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. | | Confucius | |
| To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy | | Robert Louis Stevenson | |
| To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom. | | Elbert Hubbard | |
| 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 | |
| To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it. | | Benjamin Franklin | |
| Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. | | Albert Camus | |
| We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. | | Winston Churchill | |
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| What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one | | François de la Rochefoucauld | |
| You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. | | Albert Camus | |
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| You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give. | | Winston Churchill | |
