Generosity Quotes · Page 56

Use your voice for kindness, your ears for compassion, your hands for charity, your mind for truth, and your heart for love.

— Anonymous

It's much easier to stay out of trouble now than to get out of trouble later.

— Warren Buffett

Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

— Chanakya

I'm obviously very involved with my own charity and foundation that I work with. Obviously, I'm very passionate about that.

— David Nail

When we are unable to receive, we deny someone else the pleasure of giving.

— Paulo Coelho

If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

— Dante Alighieri

Donald Trump's life has born fruit in jobs and generosity. He cannot be bought. He is not a puppet on a string…

— Jerry Falwell, Jr

If you spend too much time watching and fantasizing others while they achieve their dreams you may well miss your own.

— Randall Wright

When charity requires it we must freely and mildly communicate to our neighbor not only what is his instruction, but also what…

— Saint Francis de Sales

Fair Trade is all about improving lives, but we don't do that through charity - there is no hand out in the…

— Paul Rice

I'm all in favor of supporting fancy museums and elite schools, but face it: These aren't really charities as most people understand…

— Robert Reich

Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

What you give ought to be in direct relationship to what you've received. If you have been blessed with a great deal,…

— Johnnetta B. Cole

Since all charity begins at home, it would be the work not of charity but of fatuity to direct the alms of…

— John Wycliffe

How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive,…

— Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who…

— Jimmy Carter

I cannot overstate how much a generous spirit contributes to good luck. Look at the luckiest people around you, the ones you…

— Twyla Tharp

“The infinite distance between body and mind symbolizes the infinitely more infinite distance between mind and charity, for charity is supernatural. ...Out…

— Blaise Pascal

“The spread of charity has largely reflected the manifold failings of means-tested social assistance, the unfairness of conditionality, the deliberate sanctions taken…

— Guy Standing

Without gospel truths, man's efforts to reach his goals are like the northbound explorer who drove his dog sled feverishly northward on…

— Neal A. Maxwell

“When you realized that you would have to ask for help, you did not feel humiliated. And when you learned that someone…

— Paulo Coelho

Especially as a title-holder, you can do great things with charities, because people suddenly care about what you have to say. I…

— Joyce Giraud

On the whole, the experience that the activity of the soul obeys the law of least resistance has been verified even in…

— Ellen Key

I was in awe of my father. His generosity was beyond anything I ever could imagine. The reason I say he's like…

— Maz Jobrani

“[T]hrough bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.”

— Tahir Shah

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger.

— Leonid Andreyev

Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.

— Swami Vivekananda

True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

— Ellen G. White

“The only way I can get you to do anything is by giving you what you want.”

— Dale Carnegie

“i thank the universe for taking everything it has taken and giving to me everything it is giving”

— Rupi Kaur

I wasn't going to a charity event in order to get a picture, in order to get into a magazine.

— Tinsley Mortimer

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

— Paul Hawken

If you want to help others and become a person of influence, keep smiling, sharing, giving, and turning the other cheek.

— John C. Maxwell

“Of the various kinds of intelligence, generosity is the first. Gienka Home from the Ball Bearing Plant (1943) ”

— John Surowiecki

I believe in my cosmetics line. There are plenty of charities for the homeless. Isn't it time someone helped the homely?

— Dolly Parton

The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others.

— Dalai Lama

“When God blesses you financially, don't just focus on raising your standard living, also think of raising your standard of giving.”

— Christian Milongo

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and…

— Anonymous

The Muslim Prophet Mohammed was a big believer in charity and firmly established helping those in need as a basis of the…

— Richard Engel

Never let your zeal outrun your charity. The former is but human, the latter is divine.

— Hosea Ballou