Chi Chi Rodriguez Quotes

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.

If what I have to do is share a sandwich to lift someone's spirits, put a smile on their face - the worst thing that happens is I go broke!

Compassion comes from a choice and not the liberal definition of a choice - the choice to say I can do with a little less so my brother can have a little more.

Don't save something good for a later place. Don't hold back from your students, from the poor, don't try to keep anything for yourself 'cause it'll turn to ashes.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

God has given us two hands, one to receive with and the other to give with.

Love is sacrifice.

Every time you get something, give something away.

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.

Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.

You've got to give away what you love.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

To be a Christian is to be obligated to be charitable. This is true whether you are rich or poor, healthy or ill, old or young, male or female, oppressed or free, established or disestablished.

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

Giving is true having.

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

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

When you share your last crust of bread with a beggar, you mustn't behave as if you were throwing a bone to a dog. You must give humbly, and thank him for allowing you to have a part in his hunger.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

We tire of those pleasures we take, but never of those we give.

My father is the man that, he will give you what he doesn't have, still. If he has 10 bucks and you need 10 bucks because you're sick or you don't have nothing to eat, he will give you 10 bucks. He will be at zero, but he will help you. That's the kind of man that my father is.

So, I gave my belts out to others to give them a chance.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.

A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.