Generosity Quotes

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Good habits are worth being fanatical about. — John Irving
My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught… — Naveen Jain
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. — Jesse Jackson
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be… — Henry James
A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust. — Gertrude Jekyll
It is now for the Catholic Church to bend herself to her work with calmness and generosity. It is for you to observe her with… — Pope John XXIII
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. — Samuel Johnson
I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity. — Elia Kazan
No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it. — Helen Keller
Life is an exciting business, and most exciting when it is lived for others. — Helen Keller
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
There's no use doing a kindness if you do it a day too late. — Charles Kingsley
This idea of selfishness as a virtue, as opposed to generosity: That, to me, is unnatural. — Jessica Lange
We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or… — John Lennon
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. — C.S. Lewis
To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own. — Anne Morrow Lindbergh
A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. — Jack London
Kind words are a creative force, a power that concurs in the building up of all that is good, and energy that showers blessings upon… — Lawrence G. Lovasik
Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree. — Martin Luther
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. — W. Somerset Maugham

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