Generosity quotes

“Through the years I have found it wonderful to acquire, but it is also wonderful to divest. It's rather like exhaling.”
Helen Hayes

“There are limits to what one can give.”
Rachel Weisz - Lady Sarah

“When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.”
Eleonora Duse

“Hell is paved with good samaritans.”
William M. Holden

“Helping each other brings to life the magic in all of us.”
Britt Allcroft - Lady

“- Lenny Nero: Are we still friends?
- Mace: I don't know Lenny. You see, friendship is more than one person constantly doing favors for another.”
Ralph Fiennes - Lenny Nero
Angela Bassett - Lornette 'Mace' Mason

“- Eowyn: My Lord! Aragorn! I am to be sent with the women into the caves.
- Aragorn: That is an honorable charge.
- Eowyn: To mind the children, to find food and bedding when the men return. What renown is there in that?
- Aragorn: My Lady, there may come a time for valor without renown.”
Miranda Otto - Eowyn
Viggo Mortensen - Aragorn

“You criticize without understanding. You seek only to address your own personal feelings. That is selfish thinking, Zindzi. It does not serve the nation.”
Morgan Freeman - Nelson Mandela

Tonight, I had the opportunity to study grace and generosity under the direst of circumstances. Even in "their darkest hour", Officer Charlie Lang and the good-hearted Ms. Yvonne Biasi shared a bowl of soup with me. When I left, this good Samaritan gave me money from his own pocket, wishing it could be more.
Isaac Hayes - Angel Dupree

“- Elektra King: I could have given you the world.
- James Bond: The world is not enough.
- Elektra King: Foolish sentiment.
- James Bond: Family motto.”
Sophie Marceau - Elektra King
Pierce Brosnan - James Bond

“It's better to help people than garden gnomes.”
Audrey Tautou - Amélie Poulain

“There is a correlation between generosity and guilt.”
Alfre Woodard - Miriam

“My father died when I was nine years old. He was a miner. He died of lung disease. I became rich at twenty-five, and the first thing I did was to buy that mine, close it down, and give every miner fifty thousand dollars to retire on.”
E.G. Marshall - Walter Sullivan

“I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.”
Jim Broadbent

“I'm truly disappointed. Nobody does anything these days 'cause it's right, they only do it if you make them.”
Powers Boothe - Joshua Foss

“Raphael, you always bear the world's problems on your shoulders. It is an admirable quality when you are a protector of others. But you must realize that while at times you might not be my favorite student, it does not mean that you are my least favorite son.”
Mako - Splinter

“Kids are always open to anything. It's very rare that a kid isn't extremely eager to make you happy.”
Wes Anderson

“- Ari: Maybe we're not so different.
- Captain Leo Davidson: No, we're very different. You care about everybody, but yourself.”
Helena Bonham Carter - Ari
Mark Wahlberg - Captain Leo Davidson

“- Trenholm: There isn't anything in the world I wouldn't give you.
- Lily: That isn't love.”
George Brent - Trenholm
Barbara Stanwyck - Lily

“- Russell: I could help you cross the street.
- Carl Fredricksen: No.
- Russell: I could help you cross your yard.
- Carl Fredricksen: No.
- Russell: I could help you cross your... porch?
- Carl Fredricksen: No.
- Russell: Well, I gotta help you cross something!”

Jordan Nagai - Russell
Ed Asner - Carl Fredricksen

“The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in.”
Jack Lemmon - Morrie Schwartz

“- Peter Parker: Can I do anything for you?
- Aunt May: You do too much - college, a job, all this time with me... You're not Superman, you know.”
Tobey Maguire - Peter Parker
Rosemary Harris - May Parker

“- Rub Squeers: Can I borrow a dollar?
- Sully: Nope. You can borrow a jelly doughnut, though.
- Rub Squeers: You can't borrow a jelly doughnut. Once you eat it, it's gone.
- Sully: Once you borrow a dollar, it's gone. I'd rather buy you a jelly doughnut.”
Pruitt Taylor Vince - Rub Squeers
Paul Newman - Sully

“I do this! Time after time after time! I do all this shit for other people! And then I wake up and I'm empty! I have nothing!”
Jennifer Lawrence - Tiffany

“Come when the king doth to my lady come. And if I have much love... I'll give you some.”
Emily Mortimer - Katherine