Generosity Quotes · Page 74

I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.

— Sak?p Sabanc

There is always enough self-love hidden beneath the greatest devoutness to set limits on charity.

— Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

“In faith, unity, in doubtful matters, liberty, in all things charity.”

— St. Augustine

I give a tenth of my salary to charity every month, so in terms of giving back, I do my best.

— Wilfried Zaha

I'm not kidding - once you discover the pleasure of giving, how gratifying and satisfying it is, it becomes addictive.

— Haim Saban

All altruism springs from putting yourself in the other person's place.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“Nothing consumes itself so much as generosity, because while you practise it you’re losing the wherewithal to go on practising it.”

— Niccolò Machiavelli

In today's Republican Party, there's a term for people who hate charity and love killing: 'Christian.'

— Bill Maher

Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity…

— Mother Teresa

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want…

— George Bernard Shaw

Scientists have discovered that the small brave act of cooperating with another person, of choosing trust over cynicism, generosity over selfishness, makes…

— Natalie Angier

“For the truth is (let her ignore it) that human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to…

— Virginia Woolf

“Charity knew there was nothing more coarse and common than an afternoon in bed with a total stranger -- but the lad…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means…

— Ambrose Bierce

Studying ballet is an expensive endeavor. I know I could never have done it without the generosity and sacrifice of my parents,…

— Michaela DePrince

“When God opens a new page in your life, make photocopies of it, read it and share it with other people. Some…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“One flashy kind of commitment device is the “nuclear option.” A friend who enjoys experimenting with strategies of personal productivity used this…

— Gretchen Rubin

As we explore the nature of our gift, our goal is to move toward this kind of giving: cheerful giving that flows…

— Wayne Muller

Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death…

— Howard Zinn

There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking…

— Swami Vivekananda

Akin to the idea that time is money is the concept, less spoken but as commonly assumed, that we may be adequately…

— Wendell Berry

Young people often aren't in a position to write checks to charities. But there are two things they can do that are…

— Nicholas Kristof

“Every time we do something nice for someone else, even if it is a routine thing they expect, we can do so…

— David Michie

Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and…

— Ted Allen

The things we hope for lead us to faith, while the things we hope in lead us to charity.

— Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Giving something without promising is better than promising something before giving.

— Vikrant Parsai

real misery delights not in reproaches and complaints. It is like charity and love - silent, long suffering and mild.

— Lady Caroline Lamb

Even a Smile :) is a charity soo people y not donate when ever you can :)

— Rosie

I think we're giving people something new that people didn't know was out there before.

— Brit Hume

Christian giving is to be marked by self-sacrifice and self-forgetfuln ess, not by self-congratula tion.

— John Stott

“I distrust official charity. All charity should be done by stealth.”

— Romain Rolland

“rule of four when it came to gift giving—something you want and something you need, something to wear and something to read.”

— Lori Wilde

Human beings have neither kindness, nor faith, nor charity beyond what serves to increase the pleasure of the moment.

— Virginia Woolf

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but, unlike charity, it should end there.

— Clare Boothe Luce

No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.

— Catherine McAuley

Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

— John D. Rockefeller

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

— Mignon McLaughlin

We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

— Nicolas Chamfort

The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others...

— Mitch Albom

Altruism is a fine motive, but if you want results, greed works much better.

— Henry Spencer