Generosity Quotations | Page 7

Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.

Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone.

Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.

All that is not given is lost.

The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

When you need encouragement, think of the qualities the people around you have: this one's energy, that one's modesty, another's generosity, and so on. Nothing is as encouraging as when virtues are visibly embodied in the people around us, when we're practically showered with them. It's good to keep this in mind.

You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

God never closes off horizons; He is never unconcerned about the lives and sufferings of His children. God never allows Himself to be outdone in generosity.

The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.

Farmers everywhere provide bread for all humanity, but it is Christ alone who is the bread of life...Even if all the physical hunger of the world were satisfied, even if everyone who is hungry were fed by his or her own labor or by the generosity of others, the deepest hunger of man would still exist...Therefore, I say, Come, all of you, to Christ. He is the bread of life. Come to Christ and you will never be hungry again...

Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits.

Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don’t be afraid to aim high.

Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

Saying ‘No’ does not always show a lack of generosity and that saying ‘Yes’ is not always a virtue

God is love, generosity and forgiveness; if we believe in this, we will never allow our weaknesses to paralyse us.

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality. Given the planet, it is still necessary to add the impulse; so, to every creature nature added a little violence of direction in its proper path, a shove to put it on its way; in every instance, a slight generosity, a drop too much.

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

You know what love is? It is all kindness, generosity.

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

With life as short as a half-taken breath, don't plant anything but love.

All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.

Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.

Success may or may not mean that you've acquired a lot. It does mean that you have become a generous person.

If you are not generous when it's difficult, you will not be generous when it's easy. Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet.

Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet.

I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business.

You can't make a good deal with a bad person.

Too often, a vast collection of possessions ends up possessing its owner. The asset I most value, aside from health, is interesting, diverse, and long-standing friends.

It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing.

If principles can become dated, they're not principles.

Don't risk what is important to you, to get what is not important to you.

You are neither right nor wrong because the crowd disagrees with you.

Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

We intend to continue our practice of working only with people whom we like and admire. This policy not only maximizes our chances for good results, it also ensures us an extraordinarily good time.

Never lie under any circumstances.

Giving is more than a responsibility-it is a privilege; more than an act of obedience-it is evidence of our faith.

Real and lasting generosity requires that a person do more than make up his mind to give. He must also make up his heart.

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become.

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

Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-caluculated less or more.

When our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.

Be generous! Give to those you love; give to those who love you; give to the fortunate; give to the unfortunate - yes, give especially to those to whom you don't want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have!

We get to make a living; we give to make a life.

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.