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Quotes About Generosity

There is no shame in loving: it is the sign of a generous heart, and pain the price of an open soul.
~ Alison Croggon
I save my dreams and hopes for my kids. When I'm making a wish under a bridge or tunnel, it's always for them.
~ Alison Sweeney
Hold material goods and wealth on a flat palm and not in a clenched fist.
~ Alistair Begg
Quanto a mim, antes quero que os outros fiquem com os defeitos, do que compartilhar deles.
~ Allan Kardec
Queridos amigos; todos los días oigo decir entre vosotros: "Soy pobre, no puedo hacer caridad"; y veo también que os falta la indulgencia para vuestros semejantes; nada les perdonáis, y os constituís en jueces, a menudo severos, sin preguntaros si estaríais satisfechos de que hicieran otro tanto con vosotros. ¿Acaso la indulgencia no es también caridad? Los que sólo podéis hacer la caridad indulgente, hacedla al menos, pero hacedla con grandeza.
~ Allan Kardec
os princípios da verdadeira caridade, que são: a benevolência, a indulgência, a abnegação e o devotamento.
~ Allan Kardec
Thank you. You're a kind person. It doesn't cost anything to be kind. People forget. Kindness doesn't cost a dime.
~ Allan Wolf
I want to give back." He looked at her and said in all seriousness, "Why? What did you take?
~ Allegra Goodman
It's not a sin to accept help once in a while. - Colonel Kincaid
~ ALLISON BRENNAN
I was trying to decide what to give you for Christmas." Slowly, Kat slipped closer. "Oh yeah?" "Yeah. I was thinking a jet. That way you could stop borrowing mine." "Jets are nice," Kat said. "I also like candy. And I need socks." "Okay." Hale gave her The Smile again "Jets. Candy. Socks. I'll make a note.
~ Ally Carter
Some people understand the value of an education." Hale stretched and crossed his legs, then settled his arm around Kat's shoulders. "That's sweet, Kat. Maybe later I'll buy you a university. And an ice cream." "I'd settle for the ice cream." "Deal.
~ Ally Carter
El miedo también excluye la dignidad, la generosidad, el sentido de la justicia, y llega incluso a perjudicar la inteligencia, porque altera la percepción de la realidad y alarga las sombras de todas las cosas. Las personas cobardes tienen miedo hasta de sí mismas
~ Almudena Grandes
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.
~ Alphonse Karr
The term gift designates events, apparitions, and things whose grandeur and graciousness remove them from practices of appropriation—from measurement, categorization, and seizure.
~ Alphonso Lingis
Who is there that ever receives a gift and tries to make bargains about it? Let us, then, return thanks for what He has bestowed on us. Who can tell whether, if we had had a larger share of ability or stronger health, we should not have possessed them to our destruction.
~ Alphonsus Liguori
Take her as a gift, there shall be no ransom.
~ al-Walid, Khalid ibn
You cannot always have happiness, but you can always give happiness.
~ Alyson Noel
La verdadera generosidad es la que nadie puede comprender
~ Amelie Nothomb
I libri scritti per pura bontà sono rarissimi. Sono opere che si creano in abiezione e in solitudine, ben sapendo che dopo averle scagliate in faccia al mondo si sarà ancora più soli e più abietti. È normale, la principale caratteristica della gentilezza disinteressata è di essere irriconoscibile, inconoscibile, invisibile, insospettabile, perché un beneficio che dica il suo nome non è mai disinteressato.
~ Amelie Nothomb
The grandparents took their granddaughter in and lavished all the more affection on her, because they knew that she was suffering from a lack of it. The baby's daily life changed completely and utterly.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Pour éviter l'escalade de générosité, il n'y a d'autre solution que d'accepter courageusement les offrandes somptueuses
~ Amelie Nothomb
El universo era generosidad y yo tenía la sed suficiente para beberme hasta el último sorbo.
~ Amelie Nothomb
L'amour universel est un acte de générosité qui suppose une lucidité douloureuse.
~ Amelie Nothomb
Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
~ Manoj Bhargava