Generosity Quotes
877 quotes by 634 authors
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A good marriage is a contest of generosity.
— Diane Sawyer
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Plant the seeds of Love in your hearts. Let them grow into trees of Service and shower the sweet fruit of Ananda. Share the Ananda…
— Sathya Sai Baba
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We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold…
— John Conyers
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It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong…
— Fausto Cercignani
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Generosity is the flower of justice.
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.
— Henry Taylor
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Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
— Seth Godin
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He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself…
— Baruch Spinoza
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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health,…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Tolerance, a term which we sometimes use in place of the words respect, mercy, generosity, or forbearance, is the most essential element of moral systems;…
— Fethullah Gulen
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
— William Henry Davies
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Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist.
— Francis Pharcellus Church
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"Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.…
— Oscar Romero
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Life is not about warming yourself by the fire, life is about building the fire. And generosity is the match...If you want happiness for an…
— Larry Lucchino
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...in place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power, a New Bottom Line of Love and Generosity is possible. People of all faiths…
— Michael Lerner
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We must not only control the weapons that can kill us, we must bridge the great disparities of wealth and opportunity among the peoples of…
— Muhammad Ali
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Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. You might experiment with using the…
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice.
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Above all you must illumine your own soul with its profundities and its shallows, and its vanities and its generosities, and say what your beauty…
— Virginia Woolf
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Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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