Generosity Quotes

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Forbearance is a form of generosity. — Gretchen Rubin
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. — Tacitus
Love is found when you don't have to give it. It is the emotion of generosity and kindness that is compelled by no one. It… — James Michael
It seemed to be a makeshift replacement for love, absenting oneself from stifling atmospheres, because love basically was a torrential storm of feeling; it thrived… — Bessie Head
Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits. — Pope Francis
The generosity, to me itâ€™s less about the money and more about the support and the idea that people still care and love what Chris… — Taya Kyle
I've found nothing but support and generosity from older comics. I think comedians are a lot nicer than the stigma is, at least from my… — Bo Burnham
Generosity, generosity, generosity, must be the beginning and ending of our life — Cornelia Connelly
If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice when… — Timothy Keller
Exaggeration is in the course of things. Nature sends no creature, no man into the world, without adding a small excess of his proper quality.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
A spontaneous act of generosity, performed with unselfish grace is an example of moral beauty, as are certain acts of courage; genuine modesty is a… — Yi-Fu Tuan
To be wealthy, a rich nature is the first requisite and money but the second. To be of a quick and healthy blood, to share… — Robert Louis Stevenson
It is not those who commit the least faults who are the most holy, but those who have the greatest courage, the greatest generosity, the… — Saint Francis de Sales
I do not believe that our relationship to the earth is liable to change for the better until it gets catastrophically worse. Our record indicates… — Joseph Sittler
As Coleridge said, "We receive but what we give." The happy life is a life of continual generosity in which we go out to meet… — Gerald Brenan
We are possessed by the things we possess. When I like an object, I always give it to someone. It isn't generosity-it's only because I… — Jean-Paul Sartre
True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. — Paulo Freire
All that is not given is lost. — Rabindranath Tagore
Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives. — Luc de Clapiers
As a rule, only the poor are generous. — Honore de Balzac

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