"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
-Nelson Henderson
"No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give."
-French Proverb
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do."
-Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
"The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident."
-Francesco Guicciardini, Counsels and Reflections
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."

      - Winston Churchill
"The love we give away is the only love we keep."

    - Elbert Hubbard
"Do all the good you can

By all the means you can

In all the ways you can

In all the places you can

To all the people you can

As long as ever you can

   -John Wesley

 
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. — Frank A. Clark

 What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself. — Lavater

 

“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” — Albert Pike, 19th-century Scottish Rite Freemason

 

“We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.” — Seneca, Roman statesman and author