Quotes About Generosity

Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great because greatness is determined by service... You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love.

Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness.

You must come to see that a man may be self-centered in his self-denial and self-righteous in his self-sacrifice. His generosity may feed his ego and his piety his pride. Without love, benevolence becomes egotism and martyrdom becomes spiritual pride.

Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?

The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.

Our negative ceasing to possess must be accompanied by a positive choosing to be generous.

We definitely do not conform to our culture if we choose not to be dominated by possessions or by the anxiety to acquire more of them, but decide instead to give away much of what we have and use what we have been given as good stewards who desire to enjoy the things of God for the purposes of God.

I believe tnat life is very generous with us once we have shown the will to take a positive course. It is ery ready to keep on opening doors for us. It is just that sometimes we lose our willpower and courage adn prefer to stay on the familiar, safe side of each door.

have wrought my simple plan      If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man,      Or the man who's half a boy.

I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.

I wasn't thanking him for the coin, or even for the trouble he'd taken in stopping to help me. I was thanking him for... well, for something I'm not sure I can explain even now. For showing me that something besides cruelty could be found in the world, I suppose.

No le estaba dando gracias por la moneda, ni tampoco por la molestia que se había tomado al detenerse a ayudarme. Le estaba dando las gracias por... bueno, por algo que no estoy segura de poder explicar ni tan siquiera ahora. Por mostrarme que en el mundo se puede encontrar algo más que crueldad, supongo.

Doing good induces others to reciprocate.

Generous people are likely to receive more respect from their peers.

Be kind to unkind people, they need it the most.

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This is among the oldest, deepest, most primal truths: the facts of life may be, at times, unbearably painful. But the core, the bones of life are generous beyond all reason or belief. Those things that ought to kill us do not.

Tengo tendencia a la envidia. Es una de mis tres emociones por defecto, los otros son la codicia y la ira. También he experimentado la compasión y la generosidad, pero sólo fugazmente y por lo general en estado de ebriedad, por lo que no tengo mucho recuerdo sobre eso.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone.

If you're feeling helpless, help someone. " ? Aung San Suu Kyi (from Freedom from Fear)

The sight of an achievement was the greatest gift a human being could offer to others.

Charity must be voluntary.

You Get Out Of A Valley Sooner When You Manage To Get Outside Of Yourself: At Work, By Being Of Greater Service, And In Life, By Being More Loving.

A woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person." —QUINTILIAN