Generosity Quotations | Page 5

The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.

Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.

You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

What the Bible says is really true-it's better to give than to receive.

A good relationship is a competition of generosity.

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others...

The best investment with the least risk and the greatest dividend is giving.

Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber.

I cannot help leaving my books behind me whenever God calls me hence; but in every other respect, my own hands will be my executors.

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.

Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life

The kindness and generosity you have shown to our family at this time of such devastation and destruction is overwhelming, ... We have been blessed to have such large-hearted people and families showing so much support. Your kindness to strangers has literally brought us to our knees.

If some want to misuse the generosity of our nation, and re-examine what was previously examined, they should know the fire of the anger of the Iranian nation will be extremely burning and devastating.

He gives me a little shrug, like, of course, why else? And at this point, I really have no right to be surprised by people's capacity for kindness and generosity, but still, I am. I'm floored every time.

At the core of every religion is the belief that we care for everyone....It's not too late to help a neighbor in need and to do it with the swiftness, expertise, generosity and love that resides in the best of who we are.

Give naught, get same. Give much, get same.

Let us not only scatter benefits, but even strew flowers for our fellow-travellers, in the rugged ways of this wretched world.

Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be good for nothing atall, and I assure you, you shall have nothing at all.

I have one life and one chance to make it count for something... My faith demands that I do whatever I can, wherever I am, whenever I can, for as long as I can with whatever I have to try to make a difference.

There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who we generally consider as adversaries.

All you can hold in your cold dead hand is what you have given away.

The more he cast away, the more he had.

There's always another level up. There's always another ascension. More grace, more light, more generosity, more compassion, more to shed, more to grow.

I have always looked at life as a voyage, mostly wonderful, sometimes frightening. In my family and friends I have discovered treasure more valuable than gold.

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.

The outpouring of generosity is overwhelming. People across the Lehigh Valley are moved by the images they are seeing on TV and they want to know how they can help.

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.

Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.

It's as easy to give away a million as a hundred if you have not got either ...

Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.

A generous heart is never lonesome. A generous heart has luck. The lonesomeness of contemporary life is partly due to the failure of generosity. Increasingly we complete with each other for the goods, for image, and status.

The most important thing that everyone should bring to the dining experience is a certain generosity of spirit. Just remember that there are two kinds of people: lovers and others. And you know what you can do with the others.

Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.

Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

The Church needs your faith, your idealism, and your generosity, so that she can always be young in Spirit.

Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with many kinds of sorrow. Learn of the wonderful heroism of the poor, of the incredible generosity of the very poor

Generosity is the flower of justice.

I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages.

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.

It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

True giving is a thoroughly joyous thing to do. We experience happiness when we form the intention to give, in the actual act of giving, and in the recollection of the fact that we have given. Generosity is a celebration. When we give something to someone we feel connected to them, and our commitment to the path of peace and awareness deepens.

The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share.

People want to care about people. People look after each other, given the chance. ... I believe just believing in goodness generates a tiny bit of the stuff, so that being so foolish as to believe in our better natures, if just for a day, we actually contribute to the sum total of generosity in the universe.

All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?

A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.

Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing.

Scientists are entitled to be proud of their accomplishments, and what accomplishments can they call 'theirs' except the things they have done or thought of first? People who criticize scientists for wanting to enjoy the satisfaction of intellectual ownership are confusing possessiveness with pride of possession. Meanness, secretiveness and, sharp practice are as much despised by scientists as by other decent people in the world of ordinary everyday affairs; nor, in my experience, is generosity less common among them, or less highly esteemed.

Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.

I LOVE my job. Having a front row seat to watch lives change because of others generosity is amazing! So thankful.

When the preponderance of human beings choose to act with justice and generosity and kindness, then learning and love and decency prevail. When the preponderance of human beings choose power, greed, and indifference to suffering, the world is filled with war, poverty, and cruelty.

Abundance is an expansion of energy. Abundance is a form of gratitude, a generosity, a modesty, a bow toward others - what we can give, what we can share, rather than what we can take.

Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.

The generosity, to me it’s less about the money and more about the support and the idea that people still care and love what Chris stood for and love him.

Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.

Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or any generosity implied in colonialism, is again fundamentally neglected or fundamentally not recognised. That's crazy, because history is a series of layers, and you cannot say, "This layer I support and this layer I cancel." History is history and you cannot retrospectively manipulate it.

Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

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

The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's generosity? Why regret one's impulsiveness, one's misjudgment of others? The inevitable discovery that someone is selling letters you'd written in trust is simply to discover an obvious human truth: there are those who don't cherish us as we'd cherished them, and had wished to be cherished by them.

Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.

Generosity is only benevolence in practice.

The more you give yourself to others, the more joy and peace will flow into your own life.

An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.

The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.

Occasionally problems will occur. When it happens to your customers, fix the problem fast. Make it your speed and generosity that gets remembered, not the problem.

Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community.

The hallmark of an artist is generosity.

Who gives an island as a gift? I frowned. I hadn’t realized Edward’s extreme generosity was a learned behavior. Bella

The Devil doesn't make us do anything. The Devil, for example, doesn't make us mean. Rather, when we're mean, we make the Devil. Literally. Our actions create him. Conversely, when we behave with compassion, generosity, and grace, we create God in the world.

Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in our medium, roused to do our best, by every good writer, every fine achievement. Would we want one good writer or fine book less? The sense of writers being pitted against each other is bred primarily by the workings of the commercial marketplace, and by critics lauding one writer at the expense of another while ignoring the existence of nearly all.

Try to live with a generous heart. Doing anything else is too hard.

In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.

You're here, you're breathing, you are the recipient of an extraordinary act of generosity called life.

One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.

We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.

There is a trait in the Jewish character that does provoke animosity, maybe it's a kind of lack of generosity towards non-Jews. I mean there is always a reason why anti-anything crops up anywhere; even a stinker like Hitler didn't just pick on them for no reason.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do.

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

Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a common good, you can expect little help from biological nature. Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere.

It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.

Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.