My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.
– Leo Tolstoy
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
In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.
– Flora Edwards
There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love.
– Mother Teresa
There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.
– Aldous Huxley
Criticism, like rain, should be gentle enough to nourish a man’s growth without destroying his roots.
– Frank A. Clark
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
– Benjamin Disraeli
Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee, and do not try to make the universe a blind alley.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity.
– Paulo Freire
We cannot change anything until we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses.
– C.G. Jung
The destroyer of weeds, thistles and thorns is a benefactor, whether he soweth grain or not.
– Robert Ingersoll
Things of the spirit differ from things material in that the more you give the more you have.
– Christopher Morley
The race advances only by the extra achievements of the individual. You are the individual.
– Charles Towne
We can help others in the world more by making the most of yourself than in any other way.
– Earl Nightingale
There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
– Walden Thoreau
The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist.
– Laurence Leamer
When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.
– Edward G. Bulwer
Look around the habitable world: how few Know their own good, or knowing it, pursue.
– Juvenal
While earning your daily bread, be sure you share a slice with those less fortunate.
– H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
If you have much, give of your wealth; if you have little, give of your heart.
– Arabian Proverb