generosity Quotes

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

As we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

I have no private interest in the reception of my inventions by the world, having never made, nor proposed to make, the least profit by any of them.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.

To live a pure unselfish life, one must count nothing as ones own in the midst of abundance.