Jason Bonham Quotes

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

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.

The Grateful Dead were very kind. It was Santa Claus. It did good things. It allowed other people to benefit. The benefits that we played were enormous, and we played free. So you've got a band that loves to play free, and that was a wonderful thing.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

If you have donated, these children may never know your name, but they will never forget your kindness.

I've always felt that if you've been blessed, you should try to help as many people as you can. I just think that's the right thing to do.

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

I'm very fortunate to have been raised in my family. I learned early about the importance of giving back.

You can't beg from people what they're not willing to give you.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Rambo isn't violent. I see Rambo as a philanthropist.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

I just feel like I have when I started making a lot of money, I started spreading it out to people. Mickelson, the whole deal, the over-tip: if I see a guy that looks like he needs a hand out or something, I'll pull something out and give him something.

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

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

I admire people like Warren Buffett that are donating so much money to charity.

There are a lot of people who are doing wonderful things, quietly, with no motive of greed, or hostility toward other people, or delusions of superiority.

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.'

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

I want my music to feel like I'm giving something to someone else and not that I'm expecting something back.

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

Working on 'Big Give' was an opportunity that I felt compelled to do. It was my chance to share in showing people how they can give big in their own life, to send the message that giving goes way beyond the gift of money. We want to share that the best thing you can give is your time and understanding.

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

I have been doing good deeds since I was just a small child.