Generosity Quote by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Download Open image “Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor.” — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generosity Humor Inspirational Perfect Should
“For most people, generosity consists only in giving, and yet receiving is also an act of love. Allowing someone else to make us happy… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Generosity always intends to enhance the true wellbeing of those to whom it gives.” — JA Perez Copy Share Image
Good-humor will sometimes conquer ill-humor, but ill-humor will conquer it oftener; and for this plain reason, good-humor must operate on generosity, ill-humor on meanness. — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
The essence of humor is sensibility; warm, tender fellow-feeling with all forms of existence. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“You have to enjoy power, have a certain ruthlessness, to accept the beauty and not mourn the fact that it overshadows everything else. As with any exaggerated trait that sets you apart and makes you exceptional—and enviable, and hateable—to accept your beauty, to accept its effect on others, to play with it, to make the best of it, you’re well… — Philip Roth Copy Share
“Patience; kindness; generosity; humility; courtesy; unselfishness; good temper; guilelessness; sincerity—these make up the supreme gift, the stature of the perfect man.” — Henry Drummond Copy Share Image
Even virtue is an art; and even its devotees are divided into those who practise it and those who are merely amateurs. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Parents forgive their children least readily for the faults they themselves instilled in them. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and… — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Pain is the great teacher of mankind. Beneath its breath souls develop. — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
Where would the power of women be, were it not for the vanity of men? — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach Copy Share Image
“Much less evil would be done on earth if evil could not be done in the name of good. ” — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach 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
