Seneca the Younger Quotes

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

The manner of giving is worth more than the gift.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.

Love the giver more than the gift.

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.

We are treated with such generosity of spirit.

I try to be a good person every day. If you didn't like me, there would be something wrong with you, because I really go out and work as hard as I can to help people. I put myself last - always. I'm a giver all the way.

Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

It matters more how one gives than what one gives.

Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Gifts can incline great hearts.

A kindness received should be returned with a freer hand.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.

You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Goodwill can be indicated in various ways. I raised that particular example because at that time I was in charge. Today, I'm not in a position to present other possibilities.

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness.

The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

Whoever understands how to do a kindness when he fares well would be a friend better than any possession.

Blessed are those who give without remembering. And blessed are those who take without forgetting.