Saint Ambrose Quotes

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

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.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?

I had rather never receive a kindness than never bestow one.

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 seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

We are treated with such generosity of spirit.

When people help me out, even with something like a move or a ride to the airport, I'm always thinking 'Are you sure it's okay? Are you sure you don't mind?'

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

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.

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

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.

For it is in giving that we receive.

That was all very nice of them. They didn't have to do anything because I wasn't officially involved at all.

A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on.

Now that we have a bit of money, it is nice to get gifts for people. Before I was getting and not really giving.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.

He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

Give back in some way. Always be thoughtful of others.

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

Give and ye shall receive.