Generosity Quote by Idries Shah Download Open image ““The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.”” — Idries Shah ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generosity Kindness Knowledge Learning Nobody knows Sufis Sufism Wisdom
“The Don always taught that when a man was generous, he must show the generosity as personal.” — Mario Puzo Copy Share Image
“Real generosity is anonymous to the extent that a man should be prepared even to be considered ungenerous rather than explain it to others.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“While generosity is about more than just money, bear in mind that the idea of it is really based not so much on what… — Alan Weiss Copy Share Image
“An act of generosity rarely ends a man's responsibilities toward another; it tends instead to begin them.” — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Generosity is a lifestyle that seeks to understand the needs of others and strives to bring an end to that suffering.” — Jeff Shinabarger Copy Share Image
“Generous people take care of their own needs first. In fact, doing so is a moral necessity. The world needs you at your best.” — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Generosity creates the higher life. There is no nobler virtue than the care one person shows to another.” — Mensah Oteh Copy Share Image
“Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are.” — Patti Digh Copy Share Image
“I've learned long ago that a generous person who is wise will never lack for anything.” — Ruth Ann Nordin Copy Share Image
“Generosity generates freedom in the giver. It frees you from being possessed by possessions. After all, you only really own something when you have… — Will Jelbert Copy Share Image
“To be a Sufi is to detach from fixed ideas and from preconceptions; and not to try to avoid what is your lot.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
A king who feared wasps once decreed that they were abolished. As it happened, they did him no harm. But he was eventually stung… — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
“Yes, the world is an illusion. But Truth is always being shown there.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The human being, whether he realises it or not, is trusting someone or something every moment of the day. — Idries Shah 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… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
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… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
(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