Generosity Quotes

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

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

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

One can love any man that is generous.

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.

Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

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

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

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

Winning peace means the triumph of our pledge to establish, on a democratic basis, a new social framework of tolerance and generosity from which no one will feel excluded.

Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms.

Giving is the highest expression of our power.

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.

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.

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

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.

There never was a revelation without a question first.

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

Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.

To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.

Only by realizing what selfishness and lack of generosity really are can the delicious fragrance of true love and effective generosity, which is not of the mind, burst forth in our hearts.

This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

It is through generous giving, that we affirm before the world, our nation's faith in the inalienable right of every man, to a life of freedom, justice and security.

To be here is immense.

On some deep cosmic level, we are all one, and within us we each contain the potential for good and for destruction, for compassion and hate, for generosity and greed.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.

With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

My personal prayer is simply my joy to be alive, and to live in gratitude and generosity.

Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love.

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.

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.

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

All my feelings have the color you desire to paint.

I truly believe that generosity begets generosity. You give before you receive.

Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.

To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity.

I cannot think of a better definition of Christianity than that: give, give, give.

Well, as an artist, I think that Elvis's generosity to me he always talked very highly about me, he always spoke very highly about my work and singing and my writing.

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