Jean de la Bruyere Quotes

We should celebrate Christmas throughout the year, but I believe the whole concept of giving was the basis of Christmas, that it was a charitable, you know, giving, and I think we got carried away with giving.

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.

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

There are a lot of people with a lot of money, and I'm amazed they don't understand what a great pleasure it can be to give.

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

It matters more how one gives than what one gives.

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

Giving is what makes a nation great.

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

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.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

Scott Hall is a great wrestler, a better friend, but more than anything a very caring human being. Scott never passed a homeless person or someone in need without opening his wallet. This is a guy that has the first two nickels he ever made.

He gives twice who gives promptly.

Gifts can incline great hearts.

The hand that receives is always lower than the hand that gives.

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

It's only the giving that makes you what you are.

Christmas and the holidays are the season of giving. It's a time when people are more kind and open-hearted.

If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.

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.

My girls and I regularly go through their rooms to find clothes and toys to donate to charities. I firmly believe that children who have been given so much need to experience the joy that comes from giving.

The only wealth which you will keep forever is the wealth you have given away.