Generosity Quotes

There is generosity in giving, but gentleness in receiving.

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

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

The thing is, I can teach. I can teach bloody well. So few chefs have that level of generosity. I demand a lot, a f***ing hell of a lot, but I give a lot back.

Forbearance is a form of generosity.

The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided. It's more selfless to act happy. It takes energy, generosity, and discipline to be unfailingly lighthearted.

Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre is a genuine project and a living proof of generosity of the people of Pakistan.

America has a long and rich tradition of generosity that began with simple acts of neighbor helping neighbor.

Who hath not courage to revenge will never find generosity to forgive.

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

A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms.

I’d give him a cup of coffee and a big helping of a knuckle sandwich. Generosity was a virtue and I was in the mood to be extremely virtuous.

It needs as much generosity to take as to give.

Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.

Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart.

As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give?

Good leaders have a generosity gene.

Every great leader has a generosity gene.

Every trait of beauty may be traced to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, and heroism.

I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.

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.

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

I want to model generosity and touch poverty.

Truthfully, my films don't get funded, they get adopted - and are made thanks to the generosity of others.

Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked.

Talent and generosity are needed to recognize talent and generosity in our companions; all is discord to an ear that has no idea of harmonies, but it needs a musical ear to delight in music.

Generosity makes at least two people feel good.

I’ll sum up the key to success in one word: generosity.

My father died when I was nine and a half. We were on relief for two years. They call it welfare now, but it was relief then... I never forgot the generosity of New York.

Nonprofits are the intermediaries between generosity and social change.

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.

Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.

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

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

I loved Chiara Mastroianni voice, her talent, her generosity. We rehearsed for two months...She's a workaholic and perfectionist, like Vincent [Paronnaud] and myself.

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

it requires a great deal more generosity to take than to give.

Generosity knows how to count, but refrains.

God demonstrates generosity, then asks it from His people.

When grace happens, generosity happens. Unsquashable, eyepopping bigheartedness happens.

What is bought is cheaper than a gift.

I think the generosity of President Trump's spirit, recognizing that in the patriot's heart, there's no room for prejudice is part of who this president is.

Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep.

A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more. If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one.

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.

I'm really interested in the difference between selfishness and generosity. It confuses me to no end because sometimes it all just feels like pure indulgence on my part.

Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people’s money, other people’s safety, other people’s future.

Love and generosity are the simplest forms of peace.