Generous People Quotes:

Givers get trust quicker than other people. People trust generous people.

- Patch Adams

source: Source: www.edgemagazine.net

topic: People, Giver, Generous People

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

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Inspirational, Life, Humility, Philanthropic, Charity And Generosity

If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

- Bob Hope

topic: Life, Happiness, Success, Inspirational Charity, Kind People

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

- John Bunyan

topic: Motivational, Success, Perseverance, Inspirational Charity, Kindness Generosity

Americans are blessed with great plenty; we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

- Adam Schiff

source: "Religion: Go Ye and Relax?". content.time.com. April 20, 1953.

topic: War, Blessed, Compassion, Moral Obligation, Generous People

The American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible, exception of stupidity.

- Will Rogers

source: Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

topic: People, Stupidity, Intellectual, Generous People

How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is good and positive in the world around them.

- Van Wyck Brooks

topic: People, Mind, World, Generous People, Good Breeding

Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have often been forced to give when they were very, very young, when they weren't ready. And generous people have often been really appreciated when they were very young.

- Fred Rogers

topic: Letting Go, Money, People, Stingy, Generous People

The world doesn't really need more people who can bend their bodies into amazing positions. What it needs are kinder, more compassionate, generous people.

- Donna Farhi

topic: People, Needs, World, Generous People

We are better givers than getters, not because we are generous people, but because we are proud, arrogant people. The Christmas story-the one according to Luke, not Dickens-is not about how blessed it is to be givers but about how essential it is to see ourselves as receivers.

- William Henry Willimon

topic: Blessed, People, Proud, Dickens, Generous People

You've got to involve yourself in doing something for other people all the time. I know that sounds sentimental, but you see, ordinary people are the most generous people on Earth without question. And what I think we should do is constantly try to give as much of ourselves as we can to each other - that's the secret of happiness for all of us.

- Peter Cundall

topic: Thinking, Giving, People, Generous People

If you give, it will be given to you. And I have found that generous people are blessed people.

- Greg Laurie

topic: Encouragement, Blessed, People, Generous People

People can be good, people can be generous, people can be helpful. People can help those who are in need when they need it.

- Kevin Sorbo

source: "From “Hercules” to “Christmas Angel”: Kevin Sorbo talks about his personal journey and his role in GMC TV’s new yuletide film about the value of human kindness". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com.

topic: People, Needs, Helping, Generous People

People have these weird ideas about artists being romantic, generous people, and sometimes I feel like an asshole, a selfish kid, a brat, the lucky one, because I get to do this and it's how I make my living.

- Nate Lowman

topic: Selfish, Kids, Artist, Generous People