Generosity Quote by Jane Mayer

“I see man as a hero. With his own happiness as his moral obligation; productive achievementbas his noblest activity and reason as the only…

— Ayn Rand

He who assists a poor or needy villain does evil to his neighbor...for through the assistance which he renders he...supplies him with the means…

— Emanuel Swedenborg

“I could not help weeping with him - not over my own fate which, however clearly laid out, was just as sad as his,…

— Jean-Marie Deguignet

“From the subjective perspective, he may seem cruel, even wicked. But the glory of the man is to be found in the objective perspective.”

— Robert Harris

Therefore, the truly great man, although he does not injure others, does not credit himself with charity and mercy (these are natural to him).…

— Zhuangzi

“He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it.”

— Martin Luther King Jr

“He who restrains himself within the limits prescribed by nature, will not feel poverty; he who exceeds them will always be poor, however great…

— Seneca

“For no man who lives at all lives unto himself. He either helps or hinders all who are in anywise connected to him.”

— Frederick Douglass

“He who advances without seeking fame, Who retreats without escaping blame, He whose one aim is to protect his people and serve his lord,…

— Sun Tzu

“A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“he who begins a good deed, and does not execute it to the end, brings down misfortune upon his own head.”

— Louis Ginzberg

“Nevertheless, let no one boast. Just as every man, though he be the greatest genius, has very definite limitations in some one sphere of…

— Arthur Schopenhauer