Generosity Quote by Mignon McLaughlin Download Open image “We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.” — Mignon McLaughlin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generosity Reputation
“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
Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present. — J. A. Spender Copy Share Image
In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever. — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others. — John Stott Copy Share Image
The reputation of generosity is to be purchased pretty cheap; it does not depend so much upon a man's general expense, as it does… — Doug Stanhope Copy Share Image
There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like… — Pliny the Elder Copy Share Image
It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time. — Alan Bleasdale Copy Share Image
As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Naturally, the neurotic wants you to love him twice as much, for he's going to cut it in half anyway. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
So long as God reveals Himself, or doesn't, He is behaving like God. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
There are children born to be children, and others who must mark time till they can take their natural places as adults. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner. — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways. — Mignon McLaughlin 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
