Generosity Quotes
Most popular generosity quotes
Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of being. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.
You have not lived until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find it out.
Those who give only when asked have already waited too long.
Never hesitate to hold out your hand; never hesitate to accept the outstretched hand of another.
We love those people who give with humility, or who accept with ease.
The miracle is this—the more we share, the more we have.
Money-giving is a good criterion of a person's mental health. Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.
From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.
Generosity always wins favor, particularly when accompanied by modesty.
Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present.
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgment, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.
Being generous . . . often consists of simply extending a hand. That's hard to do if you are grasping tightly to your sand [sic], your rightness, your belief system, your superiority, your assumptions about others, your definition of normal.
Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.
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 the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness.
Generosity does not flower easily or often in the rocky soil of the theatre. Few are uncorrupted by its ceaseless warfare over credit and billing, its jealousies and envies, its constant temptations toward pettiness and mean-spiritedness.
He throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
Generosity gives assistance rather than advice.
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
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.
Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal.
We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
A man who isn't generous with his money isn't generous with his love and affection.
A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.
He who gives only what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.
Generosity is often the stalking horse of control.
Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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.
Multiplicative generosity: limit your generosity to those who, in turn, given the circumstances, would be equally generous towards others.
