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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. -- Khalil Gibran
Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet. -- Wayne Dyer
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. -- Khalil Gibran
Generosity always pays. -- Junaid Jamshed
Generosity is the best investment. -- Diane von Furstenberg
Generosity is, by definition, disinterested. -- Piero Ferrucci
Generosity should never exceed ability. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
Generosity is more charitable than wealth. -- Philibert Joseph Roux
Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice. -- Luc de Clapiers
Generosity and gratitude are inseparably linked. -- Judith Martin
Generosity is the only legitimate selfishness. -- Mario Benedetti
Generosity is only benevolence in practice. -- Thomas Ken
A Single Generosity Enlarges the World. -- Mary Anne Radmacher
Generosity is the flower of justice. -- Nathaniel Hawthorne
Generosity is the heart of humanity. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Generosity is the vanity of giving. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Generosity is never out of season. -- Janet Morris
Generosity is an act of love. -- Lailah Gifty Akita
Generosity knows how to count, but refrains. -- Mason Cooley
Generosity is a practical expression of Love. -- Gary Inrig
Generosity makes at least two people feel good. -- Karan Casey
Generosity is often the stalking horse of control. -- Anne Truitt
Generosity is giving until it makes you uncomfortable. -- Shaun King
Generosity isn't an act. It's a way of life. -- Chip Ingram
Generosity with strings is not generosity: it is a deal. -- Marya Mannes
Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return. -- Simon Sinek
Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community. -- Ross Perot
Generosity, generosity, generosity, must be the beginning and ending of our life -- Cornelia Connelly
Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. -- Jean de la Bruyere
Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants. -- Pierre Corneille
Generosity, to be perfect, should always be accompanied by a dash of humor. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Generosity without delicacy, like wit without judgement, generally gives as much pain as pleasure. -- Fanny Burney
Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed -- Mahatma Gandhi
Generosity brings you respect from people and those who are miser get hatred from people. -- Abrar Ahmed chowdhury
Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule. -- Tina Weymouth
Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness . -- Dalai Lama
Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities. -- Chanakya
Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. -- Michael Parenti
Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost. -- Bob Keeshan
Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest. -- Marilynne Robinson
Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities. -- Isaac Barrow
Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers. -- Jonathan Maberry
Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life. -- Timothy Keller
Generosity helps us cultivate awareness of things that really matter. Opportunities that make a real difference in the world. -- Andy Stanley
Generosity is another quality which, like patience, letting go, non-judging, and trust, provides a solid foundation for mindfulness practice. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions. -- Michael Wright
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine. -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Selfishness, control, and fear will break almost any relationship. Generosity, freedom, and love will create the most beautiful relationship: an ongoing romance. -- Don Miguel Ruiz
Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other people's money, other people's safety, other people's future. -- P. D. James
If you are not generous when it's difficult, you will not be generous when it's easy. Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet. -- Wayne Dyer
There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar. -- Oliver Goldsmith
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear. -- Horace Mann
Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms. -- Pliny the Younger
I'd give him a cup of coffee and a big helping of a knuckle sandwich. Generosity was a virtue and I was in the mood to be extremely virtuous. -- Ilona Andrews
Generosity is an activity that loosens us up. By offering whatever we can - a dollar, a flower, a word of encouragement - we are training in letting go. -- Pema Chodron
Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Allah's Generosity is connected to gratitude, and gratitude is linked to increase in His generosity. The generosity of Allah will not stop increasing unless the gratitude of the servant ceases -- Ali ibn Abi Talib
Everyone has so much hope for a better humanity, and many, including [Jean Paul] Sartre, turned to the idea of communism in its beginnings. Generosity had a place in people's hopes. -- Catherine Camus
The Buddha said that no true spiritual life is possible without a generous heart. . . . Generosity allies itself with an inner feeling of abundance - the feeling that we have enough to share. -- Sharon Salzberg
Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful. -- Seth Godin
We need more than just the Law of Attraction. We need to connect with its more successful twin, the Law of Generosity. And further entwine ourselves with their parent; the Law of Love. -- Steve Maraboli
Generosity is self-existing openness, complete openness. You are no longer subject to cultivating your own scheme or project. And the best way to open yourself up is to make friends with yourself and with others. -- Chogyam Trungpa
We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again. -- Seth Godin
Generosity helps us make a concerted effort to keep the needs of others in the forefront of our thinking. Not for guilt's sake, but for the sake of being good stewards of the resources we have been privileged to manage. -- Andy Stanley
Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. -- Jean-Paul Sartre
No one has ever become poor by giving. -- Anne Frank
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. -- Simone Weil
The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self. -- Fred Rogers
He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. -- Albert Camus
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. -- Frank A. Clark
Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have. -- Jim Rohn
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. -- Richard Dawkins
Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency. -- Alan Cohen
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having. -- Henry Miller
What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you. -- Oprah Winfrey
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. -- Mignon McLaughlin
Be who God meant you to be and you will set the world on fire. -- St. Catherine of Siena
You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you. -- John Bunyan
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever. -- Margaret Cho
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. -- Calvin Coolidge
The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage. -- Tullian Tchividjian
In our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives. -- Deepak Chopra
Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day! -- William Arthur Ward
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. -- Confucius
In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics. -- John F. Kennedy
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. -- Khalil Gibran
Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity. -- Jose Marti
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind. -- Henry James
Goodness is about character - integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people. -- Dennis Prager
Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents. -- Roger Moore
True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share. -- Suze Orman
The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply. -- Christopher Hitchens
I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware. -- Hunter S. Thompson
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. -- Emma Goldman
It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau
I discovered that the horse is life itself, a metaphor but also an example of life's mystery and unpredictability, of life's generosity and beauty, a worthy object of repeated and ever changing contemplation. -- Jane Smiley
Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went. -- Jonathan Sacks
The way you get meaning into your life is to devote yourself to loving others, devote yourself to your community around you, and devote yourself to creating something that gives you purpose and meaning. -- Mitch Albom
When they favor the access of other people to education and health care, the countries of the North not only demonstrate generosity or solidarity, but also implement the principles of respecting and promoting human rights. -- Omar Bongo
While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will. -- Bill Shuster
If we don't change from a world society that worships money and power to one that worships compassion and generosity, I think we'll be extinct by mid-century. I don't say that as an alarmist or as a pessimist. -- Patch Adams
My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others. -- Naveen Jain
There's a certain feeling of giving, a certain feeling of generosity in love songs. When you sing a song of love, you're actually giving something to yourself, too. You're singing and casting these affirmations of love out into the universe. -- Jason Mraz
The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things. -- Thomas S. Monson
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. -- John Wesley
Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself. -- Ze Frank
My giving story started with my parents - my late mother, Frances Arrillaga, who dedicated her life to philanthropic and community service, and my father, John Arrillaga, whose daily generosity of heart, mind, and hands-on contributions make him one of the most extraordinary philanthropists I know. -- Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
It has always seemed strange to me... 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. -- John Steinbeck
No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you. -- Gary Zukav
I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it. -- Kristin Armstrong
Be just before you are generous -- Richard Brinsley Sheridan
A good chief gives, he does not takes -- Mohawk proverb
Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin -- Publius Cornelius Tacitus
I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches -- Colin Powell
O Thou who has given us so much, mercifully grant us one thing more-a grateful heart -- George Herbert
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity -- Charles Dudley Warner
To laugh often and much to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children to leave the world a better placevto know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Cease consuming, practice generosity. -- Joan Halifax

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