Generosity Quotes

The notion of the infinite variety of detail and the multiplicity of forms is a pleasing one; in com...

Society's collective fear of love must be faced if we are to lay claim to a love ethic that can insp...

We have power as consumers. We can exercise that power all the time by not choosing to invest time, ...

I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above t...

Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and...

Ah, they said. Qué bueno. And after and for a long time to come he'd have reason to evoke the recoll...

In a pocket of his knapsack he'd found a last half packet of cocoa and he fixed it for the boy and t...

We can give away all that He entrusts to us in the same spirit of generosity.

The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,...

So often when people hear about the suffering in our world, they feel guilty, but rarely does guilt ...

Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish com...

The Dead Sea in the Middle East receives fresh water, but it has no outlet, so it doesn't pass the w...

Love is an exchange of gifts,' Saint Ignatius had said. It was in these simple, practical, down-to-e...

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

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustai...

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

For it is in giving that we receive.

No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars thr...

Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with g...

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by ge...

Conquer the angry one by not getting angry; conquer the wicked by goodness; conquer the stingy by ge...

I say, ‘We believe in a Christ’. If that being existed physically or not, it’s still important, beca...

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

Artists strive to free this true and spontaneous self in their work. Creativity, meditation are ways...

I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was a...

We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generositie.

We cannot live for ourselves alone. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and alo...

At last I see it, I feel it; I penetrate to the predestinated purpose of my life. I am content. Othe...

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember,...

(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retri...

Give with a free hand, but give only of your own.

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

Beyond all explanations which a good brain can give, why do we choose the worse and not the better, ...

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of p...

That’s what I always wanted to know. Why would some fella be willing to do something generous for a ...

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.The more he gives to others,the more he has for his o...

I've been so bothered with my property, that I'm tired of it, and don't mean to save up any more, bu...

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

Bodily passion, which has been so unjustly decried, compels its victims to display every vestige tha...

The most powerful thought is a prayerful thought. When I'm praying for you, I am praying for my own ...

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly...

There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be...

As we draw on the grace of God He increases voluntary poverty all along the line. Always give the be...

God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hear...

It’s like this: if you have one piece of cake, and you eat it, that’s fine.If you have two pieces of...

Sustainability, ensuring the future of life on Earth, is an infinite game, the endless expression of...

When you realized that you would have to ask for help, you did not feel humiliated. And when you lea...

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. Fa...

It is very important for a priest, in the parish itself, to see how people trust in him and to exper...

Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs yo...

If the secret core of potlatch is the reciprocity of exchange, why is this reciprocity not asserted ...

People do more for their fellows than return favors and punish cheaters. They often perform generous...

With genius, as with beauty -- all, well almost all, is forgiven.

Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep y...

Now you can all have a wish -- the Moomin family first!"Moominmamma hesitated a bit. "Should it be s...

We've decided to wake a miss for you because you are nice. We want a booby as roomful as ours."Every...

Oh! if the good hearts had the fat purses, how much better everything would go!

...The happy Warrior... is the generous Spirit, who, when brought among the tasks of real life, hath...

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a r...