generosity Quotes

There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty.

When you learn, teach. When you get, give.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded.

I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.

The thing to do, it seems to me, is to prepare yourself so you can be a rainbow in somebody else's cloud. Somebody who may not look like you. May not call God the same name you call God - if they call God at all. I may not dance your dances or speak your language. But be a blessing to somebody. That's what I think.

I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

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

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.