Generosity Quotes

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's.

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

If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity.

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

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

Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.

O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!

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

My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.

What a difference one person can make!

Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

Generosity is often the stalking horse of control.

We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity.

All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves!

Generosity is a practical expression of Love.

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

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.

When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.

It's hard to outdo the Lord in generosity.

When we come into this life, we don't really own anything. And we own nothing when we leave. It is only a lease we have during our lifetime, and it is up to us to make the most of it.

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

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

I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

There are those who give little of the much which they have - and they give it for recognition and their hidden desire makes their gifts unwholesome.

What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao.

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

Love and happiness remind me of sticky peanut butter. When you spread them around, you can't help but end up getting some on yourself!

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

The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.

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

Are you jealous of the ocean’s generosity? Why would you refuse to give this joy to anyone? Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?

Generosity is giving until it makes you uncomfortable.

Emancipated' women found out that the honesty, generosity, and camaraderie of men was a lie.

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

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.

Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

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

It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.

Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.

Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

Generosity isn't an act. It's a way of life.

Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.