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| Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. |
| Albert Camus |
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| 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 |
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| The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. |
| Albert Einstein |
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| There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up. |
| John Andrew Holmes |
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| There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his. |
| Eric Hoffer |
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| 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 |
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| To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. |
| Confucius |
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| 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 |
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| To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom. |
| Elbert Hubbard |
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| 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 |
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| To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it. |
| Benjamin Franklin |
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| Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. |
| Albert Camus |
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| We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. |
| Winston Churchill |
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| What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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