John Stuart Mill Quotes

It costs you something to do good!

In the time we have it is surely our duty to do all the good we can to all the people we can in all the ways we can.

For me, I get immense pleasure out of giving. I do what I can. I try and give around 10% of my earnings a year. Some years, I give more, some I give less.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.

He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.

Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?

I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.

It's better to give than to lend and it costs about the same.

Travis Alexander was a good guy. Was he a saint? No. But he was somebody who was really, really invested in helping other people and making this world a better place. Everything he did, even the car he drove, was a sign of him trying to be a force for good in this world.

When someone came to ask us for help, it was sacred. We did not even think twice. We helped them, even if we had only meagre means; we offered them arms, a little bit of money, and in occasion, men.

Money can add very much to one's ability to lead a constructive life, not only pleasant for oneself, but, hopefully, beneficial to others. My grandfather, along with Carnegie, was a pioneer in philanthropy, which my father then practiced on a very large scale. The Christian ethic played an essential part in my upbringing.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

The most amazing philanthropists are people who are actually making a significant sacrifice.

What is superfluous to your poor estate, distribute. This is distributive charity: a virtue so sacred that crimes against it are the forerunner of inevitable doom.

We don't celebrate birthdays in our family; the money was always given towards social causes.

You need to have a heart to help others and separate yourself from your money.

You try and help something, and later on it bites you, so it's a hard decision, but as a country, as a nation, people need our help.

If people are going to give, they're going to give. And it doesn't matter if you give a dollar or five dollars or a hundred dollars or a million dollars; it's all according to your ability.

The Secret of living is giving

In the world take always the position of the giver.

They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts.

The world says, The more you take, the more you have. Christ says, the more you give, the more you are.

Giving is a proof that you have conquered greed.

The Christmas spirit does not shine out in the Christian snob. For the Christmas spirit is the spirit of those who, like their Master, live their whole lives on the principle of making themselves poor -- spending and being spent -- to enrich their fellow humans, giving time, trouble, care and concern, to do good to others -- and not just their own friends -- in whatever way there seems need.