Generosity Quotes · Page 43

“I believe you’re a good fellow but you have yet to learn the dignity of altruism and the responsibility of the human…

— James Joyce

Charity may cover a multitude of sins, but success transmutes them into virtues.

— Hugh Kingsmill

I don't do social events, I don't do award ceremonies, I don't do charity dinners. I live my life off-radar.

— Marco Pierre White

Charity. To love human beings in so far as they are nothing. That is to love them as God does.

— Simone Weil

Go out into the world and do good until there is too much good in the world.

— Larry H. Miller

What we want is not power, but simply combination in order to elicit the largest possible giving.

— Lottie Moon

The act of giving is only called generosity when the one who gives does not expect anything in return.

— Shin Chan

A charitable man is like an apple tree-he gives his fruit and is silent; the philanthropist is like the successful hen.

— Austin O'Malley

Shaukat Khanum Memorial Cancer Hospital and Research Centre is a genuine project and a living proof of generosity of the people of…

— Hadiqa Kiani

Energy always flows either toward hope, community, love, generosity, mutual recognition, and spiritual aliveness or it flows toward despair, cynicism, fear that…

— Michael Lerner

I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something…

— Elbert Hubbard

As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go…

— Gerald Brenan

Living is giving…If you spend your money on yourself, you are just surviving. But if you want your life to count, if…

— Timothy Keller

“You are going to have to give and give and give, or there's no reason for you to be writing. You have…

— Anne Lamott

When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity…

— Omar Bongo

My mother was a cleaner and my father a builder. I watched both of them make big sacrifices for my brother and…

— Javier Zanetti

Does what's happened keep you from acting with justice, generosity, self-control, sanity, prudence, honesty, humility, straightforward ness, and all other qualities that…

— Marcus Aurelius

Liberals and conservatives disagree over what are the most important sins. For conservatives, the sins that matter are personal irresponsibility, the flight…

— E. J. Dionne

“Charity didn't mean to waste the entire afternoon. But her favorite daytime drama was on the telly. It was always the same,…

— Elizabeth Jane Howard

“If a prince wants to keep up a reputation for being generous, Machiavelli remarks: it is necessary for him not to neglect…

— Niccolò Machiavelli

Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel…

— Vita Sackville-West

In this modern world plagued with counterfeits for the Lord's plan, we must not be misled into supposing that we can discharge…

— Marion G. Romney

I know that if I feel any deprivation or fear [about money], the solution is to give. The solution is to go…

— Anne Lamott

Socialism has no moral justification whatsoever; poor people are not morally superior to rich people, nor are they owed anything by rich…

— Ben Shapiro

. . . [I]n the kingdom of charity, one prefers to suffer some inconvenience rather than inconvenience the neighbor.

— Vincent de Paul

“263A kind word and forgiveness is better than a charitable deed followed by hurtful [words]:”

— M. A. S. Abdel Haleem

Truthfully, my films don't get funded, they get adopted - and are made thanks to the generosity of others.

— Josephine Decker

I always wanted to work in charitable things, community outreach, etc.

— Forrest Griffin

When I chased after money, I never had enough. When I got my life on purpose and focused on giving of myself…

— Maria Micah Rosales

On the essentials, unity. On the nonessentials, liberty. In everything, charity.

— Jack Hyles

“Show your compassion to people in their life time; no amount of your tears can serve as compensation when their coffins are…

— Israelmore Ayivor

I'm pretty good at surprising friends and family with gifts. I tend to go towards the more sentimental side of giving.

— Ryan Reynolds

Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“It's the giving that makes one stronger, but sometimes the taking can make one weaker, if even vulnerable or blinding.”

— Anthony Liccione

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

— Nancy Brinker

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

— Veronica Roth

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

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

— Simon Beaufoy

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