Generosity Quotes & Sayings

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~ Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. ~

~ The True happiness that Man has searched for since the dawn of humanity, that is the inner gold that awaits any person who holds compassionately the key of anonymous generosity. Do something for your fellow man, not for the gold, but for the love of Man, and you shall truly have the gold ~

Unknown

~ Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. ~

Richard Dawkins

~ Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. ~

Albert Camus

~ Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. ~

Frank A. Clark

~ Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months. ~

David Hume

~ Liberalism is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence itis the noblest cry that has ever resounded on this planet. ~

Jose Ortega y Gasset

~ A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. ~

Otto von Bismarck

~ He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion. ~

Tacitus

~ He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man's ruin, unless tempered with discretion. ~

Cornelius Tacitus

~ Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages. ~

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

Publius Cornelius Tacitus

~ No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. ~

Emma Goldman

~ Truth, self control, asceticism, generosity, non-injury, constancy in virtue ó these are the means of success, not caste or family. ~

Mahabharata

~ The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. ~

Jean-Paul Sartre

~ Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. ~

Albert Camus

~ There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. ~

Nathaniel Branden

~ Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do. ~

Kahlil Gibran

~ To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. ~

Confucius

~ We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap ~

Mignon McLaughlin

~ A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success ~

Otto von Bismarck

~ Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice. ~

Vauvenargues, Marquis de

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

FranÁois de la Rochefoucauld

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

Ralph Waldo Emerson

~ Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing ~

Abraham Maslow

~ There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. ~

Nathaniel Branden

~ We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap ~

Mignon McLaughlin

~ Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. ~

Albert Camus

~ 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 try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be common, nor the common heroic. ~

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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