Quotes
Quotes about Generosity
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Those who give you a serpent when you ask for a fish, may have nothing but serpents to give. It is then generosity on their part.
We'd all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation.
Where there are love and generosity, there is joy. Where there are sincerity and sacrifice, there is friendship. Where there are harmony and simplicity, there is beauty. Where there are prayer and forgiveness, there is peace. Where there are moderation and patience, there is wisdom. Where there are conflicts and crises, there is opportunity. Where there are wonder and adventure, there is growth. Where there are adoration and confession, there is worship. Where there are compassion and concern, there is God. Where there are faith and hope, there is spring.
I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No, I didn't. Just kidding. I just said that to help illustrate one of the human emotions, which is freaking out. Another emotion is greed, as when you kill someone for money, or something like that. Another emotion is generosity, as when you pay someone double what he paid for his stupid puppet.
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
The three signs of great men areâgenerosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.
I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity.
