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Quotes About Generosity

It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
El que detenta el poder siempre está obligado a ser el más generoso. •José Ignacio Barraza, de la Facultad de Leyes de la UNAM
~ Elena Poniatowska
When we grow old, there can only be one regret — not to have given enough of ourselves.
~ Eleonora Duse
Majka svaki put ustraje u tomu da se prilikom tzv. -»davanja koncerata«, koji su slatka nagrada za uporno vježbanje, širom otvore prozori na ku?i kako bi u ?arobnim melodijama mogli uživati svi susjedi. Majka i baka tada stoje pored prozora, naoružane dalekozorom, i s visine svoga brijega promatraju jesu li susjeda i cijela njena obitelj sjeli pored stare ma?ke na klup?icu ispred ku?e poslušno slušaju?i »koncert«.
~ Elfriede Jelinek
My policy at the time was that, when confronted by two courses of action, one should always choose the less conservative and more generous. I thought this was tantamount to a moral obligation for anyone who had any advantages at all, and especially for anyone who wanted to be a writer.
~ Elif Batuman
Moreover, my policy at the time was that, when confronted by two courses of action, one should always choose the less conservative and more generous. I thought this was tantamount to a moral obligation for anyone who had any advantages at all, and especially for anyone who wanted to be a writer.
~ Elif Batuman
The gift of giving is to see the receiver give to someone else.
~ anthony southon
To all my friends without distinction I am ready to display my opulence: come one, come all; and whosoever likes to take a share is welcome to the wealth that lies within my soul.
~ Antisthenes
For true love is inexhaustible the more you give, the more you have. And if you go to draw at the true fountainhead, the more water you draw, the more abundant is its flow.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Charity never humiliated him who profited from it, nor ever bound him by the chains of gratitude, since it was not to him but to God that the gift was made.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
That's the whole challenge of life - to act with honor and hope and generosity, no whatter what you've drawn. You can't help when or what you were born, you may not be able to help how you die; but you can - and you should - try to pass the days between as a good man.
~ Anton Myrer
It is easier to ask of the poor than of the rich.
~ Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
Moneda que está en la mano quizá se deba guardar: la monedita del alma se pierde si no se da.
~ Antonio Machado
A full heart has room for everything and an empty heart has room for nothing.
~ Antonio Porchia
God has given a great deal to man, but man would like something from man.
~ Antonio Porchia
If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.
~ Antonio Porchia
No one understands that you have given everything. You must give more.
~ Antonio Porchia
You can owe nothing, if you give back its light to the sun.
~ Antonio Porchia
A full heart has room for everything and empty heart has room for nothing. Who understands?
~ Antonio Porchia
A good person is like a tree, a living being which is giving own things to others only, so anyone who advises the people to be not like a tree can be easily understood to be who s/he is
~ Anuj Somany
A person who conceives even one thought morally wrong in own mind against generous people receives many individuals around oneself as only false friends .If this gets truly clear to all, then everyone will fear always to even think ill about others.
~ Anuj Somany
A person who is deeply attached to own family especially wife can only think about the money for the close members of own house and literally nothing good ever for others.
~ Anuj Somany
A person who lives truly with simplicity does not share own acts of generosity or simple way of living habits through a self photo click activity on media.
~ Anuj Somany
A person who regularly says 'Life is a Gift' usually sees as an opportunity to enjoy it and often forgets own responsibility to lift other people up as a return gift to the GOD.
~ Anuj Somany