Generosity Quote by Elbert Hubbard Download Open image “Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.” — Elbert Hubbard ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generosity Half Meanness Omitting Stinginess
Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
The act of giving is only called generosity when the one who gives does not expect anything in return. — Shin Chan Copy Share Image
Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return. — Simon Sinek Copy Share Image
“Rather than leaving generous people on the short end of an unequal bargain, practices of generosity are actually likely instead to provide generous givers… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
[Meanness] is more ingrained in man's nature than Prodigality; the mass of mankind are avaricious rather than open-handed. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The highest reward that God gives us for good work is the ability to do better — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
“If we cannot be happy and powerful and prey on others, we invent conscience and prey on ourselves.” — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The poor and ignorant will continue to lie and steal as long as the rich and educated show them how. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
So long as governments set the example of killing their enemies, private individuals will occasionally kill theirs. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
If I supply you with a thought, you may remember it and you may not. But if I can make you think a thought… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run. Elbert Hubbard A failure is a man who has blundered, but is not able to cash in the experience. Elbert Hubbard A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Elbert… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share
The great man is not so great as folks think, and the dull man is not quite so stupid as he seems. The difference… — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
What boy well raised can compare with your street gamin who has the knowledge and the shrewdness of a grown-up broker. — Elbert Hubbard Copy Share Image
The greatest charity you can contribute to is yourself. Instead of spending a dollar to help feed hungry children, why not spend that dollar… — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
In this choice of inheritance we have given to our frame of polity the image of a relation in blood; binding up the constitution of our country with our dearest domestic ties; adopting our fundamental laws into the bosom of our family affections; keeping inseparable and cherishing with the warmth of all their combined and mutually reflected charities, our state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share
I would have none of that rigid circumspect charity which is never done without scrutiny, and which always mistrusts the truth of the necessities… — Jean Baptiste Massillon Copy Share Image
I'm publicist, patron of nine charities, creative director, food consultant, recipe developer - and mum. — Jack Monroe Copy Share Image
The next time you're looking at a charity, don't ask about the rate of their overhead. Ask about the scale of their dreams. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Businesses acting as businesses, not as charitable donors, are the most powerful force for addressing the pressing issues society face(s) — Tony Elumelu Copy Share Image
Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. — James Cook Copy Share Image
I think more and more people are becoming much more sensitive to what they do with their money when they die, especially if they… — Angela Rippon Copy Share Image
Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving. — Anonymous Copy Share
(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I was always clear that I didn't want to just do pure charity. My thinking was definitely about looking at the levers in society… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
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