Lao Tzu Quotes

A disciple does not ask, "How much can I keep?" but, "How much more can I give?" Whenever we start to get comfortable with our level of giving, it's time to raise it again.

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.

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

It was our belief that the love of possessions is a weakness to be overcome. . . . Children must early learn the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. . . . The Indians in their simplicity literally give away all that they have—to relatives, to guests of other tribes or clans, but above all to the poor and the aged, from whom they can hope for no return.

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

A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

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

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

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.'

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 thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.

Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness.

The greater the giving, the greater the living.

Riches without charity are nothing worth. They are a blessing only to him who makes them a blessing to others.

God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.

Taking Five and Returning Four is not Giving

Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.

The more we bestow the richer we become.

The mark of true wealth is determined by how much one can give away.

Be Charitable before wealth make thee covetous, and loose not the glory of the Mite.

The process of giving is without limits.

If you want to create abundance for yourself, create it for someone else.

To be truly wealthy, we must be able to give more than what we receive.