Quotes about generosity
generosity poor generous
As a rule, only the poor are generous. Honore de Balzac
generosity easier generous
How much easier is it to be generous than just.
generosity giving people
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity. Oscar Wilde
generosity giving goal
Progress is measured by milestones. What many good people lack are markers that might tell them how they are actually doing. Goals can become a ritual or a fetish, but in the right measure they can give us some much needed reference points. No wonder some seem discouraged! Minus such milestones, we often feel minus in our lives Neal A. Maxwell
generosity should ability
Our generosity never should exceed our abilities. Marcus Tullius Cicero
generosity should ability
Generosity should never exceed ability.
generosity earth spirit
The spirit of Christmas is - and hopefully always will be - about goodwill and generosity to others and peace on earth. Nick Rahall
generosity giver values
The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver. Ovid
generosity strings deals
Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal. Marya Mannes
generosity spirit animated
I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity. Mark Leyner
generosity selfishness
Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness. Mario Benedetti
generosity sometimes be-careful
Be a gift to everyone who enters your life, and to everyone whose life you enter. Be careful not to enter another's life if you cannot be a gift. (You can always be a gift, because you always are the gift - yet sometimes you don't let yourself know that.) Neale Donald Walsch
generosity choices luck
Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too. Mike Leigh
generosity people degrees
There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who we generally consider as adversaries. Jimmy Carter
generosity taught fiction
Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility. James Mackintosh
generosity riches prosperity
True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches. Ellen G. White
generosity done half
Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs. Hesiod
generosity watches poverty
Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity. Henry Ward Beecher
generosity heaven may
The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven. Johann Kaspar Lavater
generosity giving rich
Giving is the business of the rich. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
generosity accepting
It takes great generosity to accept generosity. Merle Shain
generosity refrain knows
Generosity knows how to count, but refrains. Mason Cooley
generosity rich virtue
The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
generosity giving
You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get. Theodore White
generosity charity given
Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed Mahatma Gandhi
generosity leader good-leader
Good leaders have a generosity gene. Jack Welch
generosity leader great-leader
Every great leader has a generosity gene.
generosity needs messages
It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive. Joan Didion
generosity habit good-habits
Good habits are worth being fanatical about. John Irving
generosity immense
To be here is immense. Rainer Maria Rilke
generosity thieves may
[When I die] if I leave behind me ten pounds...you and all mankind [may] bear witness against me, that I have lived and died a thief and a robber. John Wesley
generosity stewardship greater
We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others. John Stott
generosity giver acceptable
A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.