Generosity Quotes · Page 75

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

Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.

— Spencer W. Kimball

Charity and good-nature give a sanction to the most common actions; and pride and ill-nature make our best virtues despicable.

— William Wycherley

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

— Anonymous

When we pray God hears more than we say, answers more than we ask, gives more than we imagine...in his own time…

— Anonymous

“Alas! Alas if your unshakable view of the world relies on your circumstantial receiving of charity!”

— Tim J. Brooks

“I think kindness if my number one attribute in a human being. I’ll put it before any of the other things like…

— Raold Dahl

Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation…

— Kofi Annan

Politics, according to the Social Doctrine of the Church, is one of the highest forms of charity, because it serves the common…

— Pope Francis

Charity is from person to person; and it loses half, far more than half, its moral value when the giver is not…

— James Anthony Froude

We donate time, expertise, and resources to a wide array of charitable and nonprofit organizations around the world each year through partnership…

— Joshua Bekenstein

While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be…

— Bill Shuster

I have come to the conclusion that charity is only charity when you give goods, services or money without personal gain, benefit…

— Jim Pinto

People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals…

— Richard Dawkins

“No, it is not a commonplace, sir! If up to now, for example, I have been told to 'love my neighbor,' and…

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity. The dissenter…

— Herbert Spencer

“I feel obliged to withhold my approval of the plan, as proposed by this bill, to indulge a benevolent and charitable sentiment…

— Grover Cleveland

Charity bestowed upon those who are worthy of it is like good seed sown on a good soil that yields an abundance…

— Buddha

To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems…

— Benjamin Franklin

Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I think mentoring is essential in life, both being a mentor to someone and being mentored, and I think that when you…

— Carol Friedman

“How wonderful that it's possible to ensure our own happiness of another. Is it our job to make a beloved happy? It…

— Jan Karon

The yoga of selfless giving is easy for anyone to practice. The key is detachment. The spirit is unattachment to results.

— Frederick Lenz

Service... Giving what you don't have to give. Giving when you don't need to give. Giving because you want to give.

— MC Frontalot

If you want them to stop using you STOP giving them something to use you for.

— Sonya Parker

The organized charity, scrimped and iced, In the name of a cautious, statistical Christ.

— John Boyle O'Reilly

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

— Oscar Wilde

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

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

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

“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

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

— Tahir Shah