Generosity Quote by Nicolas Chamfort Download Open image “We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.” — Nicolas Chamfort ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Generosity Generous Kindness Needs Ruffles Shirts
We weren't raised to take, we were raised to give the shirt off our back to anyone in need. — Brantley Gilbert Copy Share Image
T-shirts create a sense of "We". Food says, "We don't mind spending money on you." — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
I aint wearing this shirt when we go out; this is the shirt BEFORE the shirt. — Jersey Shore Copy Share Image
We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I knew the shirt-swapping business in general was getting out of hand when opponents would ask me for my shirt while we were still… — Paul Scholes Copy Share Image
We need modesty not only in the way we dress; we need intellectual modesty. — Tariq Ramadan Copy Share Image
It's true I've got no shirts to wear; It's true my butcher's bill is due; It's true my prospects all look blue - But… — W. S. Gilbert Copy Share Image
Of all days, the day on which one has not laughed is the one most surely wasted. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Nature never said to me: Do not be poor; still less did she say: Be rich; her cry to me was always: Be independent. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is commonly supposed that the art of pleasing is a wonderful aid in the pursuit of fortune; but the art of being bored… — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
It is with happiness as with watches: the less complicated, the less easily deranged. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Tragedy has the great moral defect of giving too much importance to life and death. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
Men's hearts and faces are always wide asunder; women's are not only in close connection, but are mirror-like in the instant power of reflection. — Nicolas Chamfort Copy Share Image
I only study the things I like; I apply my mind only to matters that interest me. They'll be useful-or useless-to me or to… — Nicolas Chamfort 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
