Generosity Quotes And Sayings

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“The happy heart gives away the best. To know how to receive is also a most important gift, which cultivates generosity in others and keeps strong the cycle of life.”
– Dhyani Ywahoo

“Righteousness and generosity are inseparable. The person whose heart longs for God also longs to give to others.”
– Dillon Burroughs

“Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously.”
– Dillon Burroughs

“Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.”
– Duncan

“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and can take without forgetting.”
– Elizabeth Bibesco

“I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.”
– Etienne de Grellet

“Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure.”
– Fanny Burney

“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.”
– Frank A. Clark

“If I were God, I’d work on the reach of empathy.”
– Frans de Waal

“He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche

“A pessimist, they say, sees a glass as being half empty; an optimist sees the same glass as half full. But a giving person sees a glass of water and starts looking for someone who might be thirsty.”
– G. Donald Gale

“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.”
– Gibran Kahlil Gibran

“Generosity is not giving me that which I need that you do, but it is giving me that which you need more that I do.”
– Gibran Kahlil Gibran

“All you have shall some day be given; Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors’.”
– Gibran Kahlil Gibran

“To the open-handed the search for one who shall receive is joy greater than giving.”
– Gibran Kahlil Gibran

“Its amazing what you can accomplish when you don’t care who gets the credit.”
– Harry Truman

“Do unto others as they would have you do unto them.”
– Harville Hendrix

“Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another’s pain, life is not in vain.”
– Helen Keller

“We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.”
– Henry James

“He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.”
– Henry Taylor

“Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it.”
– Holy Bible

“Give, and it will be given to you.”
– Holy Bible

“But whoso hath this world’s good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?”
– Holy Bible

“Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.”
– Holy Bible

“A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.”
– Idries Shah

“Kindness lies in loving people more than they deserve.”
– J. Soubert

“If we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.”
– J.M. Coetzee

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