Generosity Quotes · Page 63

Be discriminating when dispensing charity. In the name of charity or philanthropy, we tend to do injustice to one's country.

— Sathya Sai Baba

My charitable donations go to educational efforts, such as Teach for America, Vanderbilt University, Berkshire School.

— Thomas Peterffy

It is the camp law: people going to their death must be deceived to the very end. This is the only permissible…

— Tadeusz Borowski

Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.

— Henry Ward Beecher

You showed me your generosity by giving me money with my card. Thank you.

— Anonymous

India is desperately romantic, utterly unashamed of its sentimentality, its generosity, its fierce pride and massive heart.

— Simon Beaufoy

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

— Henry David Thoreau

The very first step toward giving to others is grateful recognition of our own assets.

— Nancy Brinker

Give worshipfully. Our giving is a reflexive response to God's grace. It doesn't come out of our altruism - it comes out…

— Randy Alcorn

When you achieve equality, and freedom, and fairness, it's not because I grant it to you. It's because you fought for it…

— Kamala Harris

It is impossible to count the blessings I have received over my years at Microsoft. I am humbled by the professionalism and…

— Steven Sinofsky

“O, let not virtue seek Remuneration for the thing it was; For beauty, wit, High birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,…

— William Shakespeare

I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam…

— Prince Charles

“In her autobiographical Giving Up the Ghost (2003), Hilary Mantel reveals: “I have always been addicted to something or other, usually something…

— Lynne Truss

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of…

— Charles Dickens

What would become of the garden if the gardener treated all the weeds and slugs and birds and trespassers as he would…

— Thomas Huxley

“The two highest levels of influence are achieved when 1) people follow you because of what you've done for them, and 2)…

— Dale Carnegie

“And, quite possibly, this lack (or seeming lack) of participation by a person's soul in the virtue of which he or she…

— Marcel Proust

Does God have a reason for wanting us to be charitable, to take care of those who can't take care of themselves?…

— Rebecca Goldstein

READILY and, I trust, feelingly acknowledge the duty incumbent on us all . . . to provide for those who, in the…

— Franklin Pierce

Tolerance is a form of generosity and it is a form of wisdom. There is nothing anywhere in the Dharma [Buddhist scriptures]…

— Hsing Yun

Charity is not a virtue to expect in others only. It is the all-important Christian attribute to be found in ourselves. .…

— Henry D. Moyle

But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,' faltered Scrooge, who now began to apply this to himself. Business!' cried…

— Charles Dickens

Do not give alms promiscuously. Select the unworthy poor and make them happy. To give to the deserving is a duty, but…

— George Ade

“It's for giving something back to me, something I lost before I was able to really have it.”

— Veronica Roth

“Energy is more valuable than time and generosity is better than scarcity.”

— Sravani Saha Nakhro

We grew up in west London, everyone was poor, and we bought our clothes from charity shops or from Portobello.

— Miquita Oliver

Stinginess has nothing to do with how much money you have. Neither does generosity. Its about how much heart you've got.

— Anas

What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I…

— Patrick Swayze

All you can hold in your cold dead hand is what you have given away.

— Joaquin Miller

Giving back to your community - we've done that forever, that's nothing new.

— Patty Mills

That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral.

— Swami Vivekananda

The joy of giving is indeed a pleasure, especially when you get rid of something you don't want.

— Frank Butler

If you're giving your all to someone, and its not enough, you're giving it to the wrong person.

— Anonymous

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“If charity begins at home then revolution should begin from school”

— Subhasis Das

In the face of unspeakable evil, our whole nation must respond with countless acts of kindness, warmth and generosity.

— Steve Scalise

Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous…

— Bhartrhari

No one ever sowed the grain of generosity who gathered not up the harvest of the desire of his heart.

— Saadi

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.

— Cyril Cusack