There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.
Nathaniel Branden
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
What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal.
Albert Pine
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.
Frank A. Clark
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap
Mignon McLaughlin
A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success
Otto von Bismarck
The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor
Dutch Proverb
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin
Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
Thomas J. Watson, Sr.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
Confucius
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing
Alexander Pope
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
Horace Mann