Seneca the Younger Quotes

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

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

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

I try to be a good person every day. If you didn't like me, there would be something wrong with you, because I really go out and work as hard as I can to help people. I put myself last - always. I'm a giver all the way.

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.

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

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

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.'

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

My father has been to me a paragon of what actualizing philanthropic potential can be.

Even a smile is a good deed.

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.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.

Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.

I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.

There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.

Cheerfulness is a very great help in fostering the virtue of charity. Cheerfulness itself is a virtue.

That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.

True charity occurs only when there are no notions of giving, giver, or gift.

Give [charity] without hope or expectation of any return. To give otherwise, indeed, would scarcely be to give at all, but rather a loan.

I love giving. I love sharing.