Generosity Quotes

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  • Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

  • I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

    Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.

    Edward Albee (1965). “Tiny Alice”, p.28, Dramatists Play Service Inc
  • God demonstrates generosity, then asks it from His people.

  • You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

  • We shall walk together on this path of life, for all things are part of the universe and are connected with each other to form one whole unity.

    Maria Montessori (2015). “To Educate the Human Potential”, p.6, Ravenio Books
  • Consider the generosity of our Savior: what He acquired by dying becomes ours by eating. As often as we receive this Sacrament with proper dispositions, we make our own the fruits of all the labors, injuries and sufferings of His life, especially those borne at the time of His passion and death. Just as the power and the sensations of the head reach all the members of the body, in the same way, because Christ is "the head of the Church which is His Body" (Eph. 1:23), the treasures of His grace are made abundantly available to all who through charity are one with Him as living members.

  • Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

  • Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness.

  • Christmas is more that a time of festivities, family, and friends; it is a season of generosity, gladness, and gratitude.

  • Three or four threads may be agitated, like telegraph wires, at the same time, and if I were to tap them all I would reveal such a mixture of innocence and duplicity, generosity and calculation, fear and courage, I cannot tell the whole truth simply because I would have to write four journals at once.

  • America will be a country of generosity and warmth, but we will also be a country of law and order.

    Country   Order   Law  
    Source: time.com
  • The more you give yourself to others, the more joy and peace will flow into your own life.

    Generosity   Giving   Joy  
    Thomas Kinkade (2003). “The Garden of Prayer”, p.85, Andrews McMeel Publishing
  • You should look ahead now and decide what you want to do with your lives. Fix clearly in your mind what you want to be one year from now, five years, ten years, and beyond. Write your goals and review them regularly. Keep them before you constantly, record your progress, and revise them as circumstances dictate.

  • You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

    Love   Funny   Women  
  • Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a closed mouth.

  • Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

    Mencius (1861). “The Chinese Classics”, p.331
  • Love and happiness remind me of sticky peanut butter. When you spread them around, you can't help but end up getting some on yourself!

  • O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.

    Love   Pain   Generosity  
  • Generosity is often the stalking horse of control.

    Anne Truitt, Audrey Niffenegger (2013). “Daybook: The Journal of an Artist”, p.192, Simon and Schuster
  • It's quite an undertaking to start loving somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment right at the start where you have to jump across an abyss: if you think about it you don't do it.

  • The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards it as an honor to be selected for difficult or dangerous service and would think it shameful to ask for any reward, saying rather: "Let the person I serve express his thanks according to his own bringing up and his sense of honor. Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth, and the Great Silence alone!. What is Silence? It is the Great Mystery! The Holy Silence is His voice!

  • If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.

    Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.261
  • Live today the way you want to be remembered tomorrow.

  • Giving is most blessed and most acceptable when the donor remains completely anonymous.

  • Honesty,sincer ity,simplicity, humility, pure generosity,abse nce of vanity,readines s to serve others -qualities which are within easy reach of every soul -are the foundation of one's spiritual life.

  • Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice.

    Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion
  • If we are to achieve long-range goals, we must learn to set up and accomplish short-range goals that will move us along the way. If we do not consciously select our goals, we may be controlled by goals not of our own choosing - goals imposed by outside pressures (such as the expectations of others) or by our habits (such as procrastination) or by our desire for the approval of the world.

  • The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

  • The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

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