Generosity Quote by Anonymous

By thetest of our faith thehighest standard ofcivilization is the readiness to sacrifice for others.

— David Lloyd George

Humanity is self-supportive and does not require to be comforted with principles of any religion,caste, creed or sect.

— Anuj Somany

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the…

— Mark Hopkins

Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion.

— Sigmund Freud

There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self.

— George Sand

The virtue involved in helping those one loves is not 'selflessness' or 'sacrifice,' but integrity.

— Ayn Rand

Love and nonattachment are the basis of true generosity.

— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

It is nonviolent non-co-operation which evokes the highest spirit of self-sacrifice that will wean one from the error of one's ways.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we…

— Charles Caleb Colton

For human nature is strange: the less we are inclined to self-sacrifice, the more we insist on it in others.

— Bolesław Prus

Self-sacrifice which denies common sense is not a virtue. It's a spiritual dissipation.

— Margaret Deland

Selfless giving does not imply superiority. Selfless giving is about love.

— Frederick Lenz