Generosity Quotes

Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing.

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

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

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

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

Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.

[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.

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.

This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural.

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

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.

So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

Our life-style contains more Thanatos than Eros, for egotism, exploitation, deception, obsession and addiction have more place in us than eroticism, joy, generosity and spontaneity.

Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter.

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.

Generosity is the flower of justice.

We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

Judges, as a class, display, in the matter of arranging alimony, that reckless generosity which is found only in men who are giving away someone else's cash.

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.

Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.

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

We need to be generous with the women following in our footsteps in the hope that they will be generous with us.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

It is a powerful practice to be generous when you are the one feeling in need.

Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.

I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church.

However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more or just expressing it in different ways.

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

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.

The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.

Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.

The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.

Think of yourself as a role model for others-showing that you can be kind, generous, loving, and rich!

Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.

The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.

In the act of giving lies the expression of my aliveness.

To generous souls every task is noble.

We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

Giving is the highest expression of our power.

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give! You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

There never was a revelation without a question first.

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.

Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.

A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others.

What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

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

One can love any man that is generous.