Albert Brooks Quotes

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.

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

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

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

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.'

I knew a homeless guy who'd give all the copper coins that people gave him to charity. So I think there's something that makes us want to give. For me, it's quite a selfish luxury: you feel enlivened, deepened and self-nurtured by generosity.

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.

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

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

If you have money, and you help people, you don't talk about it. Just do it.

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.

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

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.

Charity is willingly given from the heart.

If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

For over 35 years, I've been making charitable donations anonymously.

For me, I think everybody with half a heart tries to do their best to do their part of good during the holiday season.

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.

It matters more how one gives than what one gives.

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.

For the will and not the gift makes the giver.

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.

I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.