Quotes About Generosity

The sea - the truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind-hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

The only question with wealth is what you do with it.

Having given all he had, He then is very rich indeed.

Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Give a cat a fish and you make a friend forever.

Let me be big in little things...

Service isn't a big thing. It's a million little things.

Zivot nam vraca samo ono sto mi drugima dajemo.

A što svijet hvali dobre i izdašne ljude, to je zato što od njih i njihove propasti živi.

Nikad ne možeš biti toliko glup, koliko ja mogu da budem gluv. Nikad ne možeš da budeš tako alav, koliko ja mogu da ti dam. Nikad ne možeš toliko da srušiš, koliko ja mogu iznova da sagradim. I nikad, ali, ama baš nikad, ne možeš da budeš toliko zao, koliko ja mogu da budem dobar.

Možda je u po?etku bilo i drugih motiva, ali danas je glavni strah. Od straha su ljudi zli, surovi i podli, od straha su darežljivi, ?ak i dobri.

Sve mu daj, a uzmi mu zdravlje, pa kao da mu ništa dao nisi.

Od straha su ljudi zli i surovi i podli, od straha su darežljivi, ?ak i dobri. Sve se niži višega boji. A onaj koji nema nikog da se boji taj preza pred strahom kog mu ra?a njegova bolesna mašta, jer strah je kao zaraza koja ispunjava sve mozgove. Kad bih mogao zaviriti u nutrinu ovom ?ovjeku kom je odre?eno da me mu?i, mislim da bih našao malu, bijednu dušu, izmu?enu obzirima i strahom pred propustima i ukorima. Žao mi ga je i ta me samilost boli.

Work is not just about getting paid what you're worth. It is about using your gifts, sharing the best of who you are, and using what brings you joy to make someone else's life better." Never in my life had I heard anything like that. At the time, it sounded crazy.

Make sure that your generosity is as private as possible, even hidden from the recipient if possible, because it then eliminates the expectation of a reward.

If you find yourself talking about everything you have or showing off by being publicly generous instead of privately, then you have a problem with pride.

You are who you are. I know you. You believe that? Yea but-- You're Eve Dallas. You're the love of my life. My heart and Soul. You're a cop, mind and bone. You're a woman of strength and resilience. Stubborn, hardheaded, occassionally mean as a badger, and more generous that you'll admit.

People seemed to have this unstoppable need to give and receive stuff they could easily afford to go out and get for themselves anyway.

Is this love - this easy generosity, this sense of being understood at last, of not having to pretend?

Scrivere è una questione di dare, dare, dare, senza tregua.

Es esto el amor, esta generosidad natural, este sentimiento de ser comprendido por fin, de no tener que fingir?