generosity Quotes

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

Giving should be entered into in just the same way as investing. Giving is investing.

I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it.

You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity.

My mom was on the United Way group that decides how to allocate the money and looks at all the different charities and makes the very hard decisions about where that pool of funds is going to go.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

A first-generation fortune is the most likely to be given away, but once a fortune is inherited it's less likely that a very high percentage will go back to society.