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Quotes About Generosity

Buck thanked the sheik and his trusted
~ Nelson DeMille
He searched his mind for something he could do for her to match her generosity in some small measure. "Like to go to the pictures tonight?" he said. "I see there's Cary Grant on at the Regal." Four days later he left Poole on the flying boat for Rangoon.
~ Nevil Shute
Americans are like that.' The other stared at him incredulously. 'It would cost a great deal of money to provide for a child, perhaps for years. One does not do that lightly for a foreign child of which one knows nothing.' 'It's just the sort of thing they do do,' said the old man. 'They would pour out their money in a cause like that.
~ Nevil Shute
extravagant generosity with other people's money.
~ Niall Ferguson
Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries - for heavy ones they cannot.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Nothing consumes itself so much as generosity, because while you practise it you're losing the wherewithal to go on practising it.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
El príncipe que, con sus ejércitos, va a efectuar saqueos y a llenarse de botín, y a apoderarse de los caudales de los vencidos, está obligado a ser pródigo con sus soldados, que no le seguirían sin ese estímulo.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
Gifts of the heart can't be claimed by anyone except the giver.
~ Nicholas Sparks
Love is always bestowed as a gift! freely, willingly, and without expectation.... We don't love to be loved, we love to love
~ Nicholas Sparks
Both. Some of the children here came from really horrible situations. It's enough to break your heart when you hear about it. But when they see you come in with some books from the library or a new game to play, their smiles just take all the sadness away. It's the greatest feeling in the world.
~ Nicholas Sparks
but it's her kindness i think i like best because i've been around long enough to know how rare something like that really is.
~ Nicholas Sparks
My goal from the beginning was, if I ever hit it it big, I would give back. And that continues to be my goal moving forward.
~ Hannah Teter
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
~ Lao Tzu
I'll go into Ruth's Chris. They'll have my room in the back and I'd go to pay the bill and somebody had paid the bill already. That happened multiple times. That's the love people give you.
~ Jermaine O'Neal
My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.
~ Tony Abbott
I bought my mum a new house when the money started to come in; it's that old cliche.
~ Gilbert O'Sullivan
I love donating my time and serving other people. Just seeing the faces of people in need light up when they see you... There is no way I can put it into words. You feel like you did something right.
~ Austin Seferian-Jenkins
I'm no saint, and I don't want to come across like one, but there is not a day that goes by that I'm not doing something for someone else with a very large chunk of my time.
~ Andrew Zimmern
If all Christians and Jews tithed their income as the Bible commands, every poor person would be cared for, every naked person clothed, and every hungry person fed.
~ Ann Coulter
Giving is what makes a nation great.
~ Jonathan Sacks
To preserve what you have, to keep your relationships alive and glowing, give generously- give of your time, you assets, your attention, your help, and your love. Give of yourself.
~ Chris Prentiss
Rather than leaving generous people on the short end of an unequal bargain, practices of generosity are actually likely instead to provide generous givers with essential goods in life—happiness, health, and purpose—which money and time themselves simply cannot buy. That is an empirical fact well worth knowing.
~ Christian Smith
generosity involved in proactively forgiving other people. This form of generosity, and the positive feelings it evokes in generous forgivers, have been shown by studies to reduce stress, tension, and sadness, and to lead to lower heart rates, lower skin conduction levels, and lower blood pressure. By contrast, those who ungenerously hold grudges are more angry, feel less in control of their lives, and, partly as a result, exhibit symptoms of unhealthy physical conditions.
~ Christian Smith
variety of kinds of practices of generosity are positively and significantly associated with five important good life outcomes. Giving money, volunteering, being relationally generous, being a generous neighbor and friend, and personally valuing the importance of being a generous person are all significantly, positively correlated with greater personal happiness, physical health, a stronger sense of purpose in life, avoidance of symptoms of depression, and a greater interest in personal growth.
~ Christian Smith