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Quotes About Generosity

A meaningful life is filled with contributions.
~ Unknown
Love others and as you do, that love will return to you.
~ Clay Aiken
You can give of your talent, you can give of your possessions, or you can give of yourself. For God's sake, give something.
~ Cleveland Amory
What this world needs is a new kind of army — the army of the kind.
~ Cleveland Amory
If in the course of the day you do a good deed for a stranger, that stranger will do a good deed for a stranger who might be you.
~ Clifford Thurlow
Applaud yourself when you do good each day. You don't get rewarded for every single penny that you share for others, but these pennies when collected can weigh more than the actual weight of 2.5 billion people.
~ Unknown
Give alms to the needy because you want to do it, not because of pity.
~ Unknown
You need not be a medical professional to be of service to others if the world calls for charity work.
~ Unknown
Four orphans outside a church received a dime, a quarter coin, a half-dollar coin and a dollar coin. The oldest orphan gets the one dollar-coin while the youngest gets the dime. How do you measure the value of life?
~ Unknown
People of the world will be thankful for what you have done today. You just did!
~ Unknown
Show your love to the world and don't keep it to yourself. That's what love is for!
~ Unknown
The cardinal work of charity is not by the number that counts, but by the frequency and the good results of the act.
~ Unknown
A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover
~ Clifton Fadiman
Water the fruit trees, and don't water the thorns. Be generous to what nurtures the spirit and God's luminous reason-light. Don't honor what causes dysentry and knotted up tumors.
~ Coleman Barks
The seventeenth, Desmond! Come along at once; everything's all right. We're going to buy a huge bracelet for my wife, an enormous cigarette-holder for Madame Peloux, and a tiny tie-pin for you
~ Colette
It is difficult to imagine love without generosity, without a desire to make some sacrifices. To-day
~ Henryk Sienkiewicz
A gift weighed down with obligations is scarcely a gift.
~ Hermann Broch
It is hard work to give money away. It requires a great deal of planning and strategizing. If not managed properly, philanthropy can both harm the giver and spoil the receiver. Expand. Generosity is the mother of ingratitude.
~ Unknown
Generosity is the mother of ingratitude.
~ Unknown
Giving is good, but taking is bad and brings death.
~ Hesiod
If there's one thing this world needs more of, it's thoughtful Nobles," the left hand jeered.
~ Hideyuki Kikuchi
It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.
~ Hilary Mantel
The gift blesses the giver.
~ Hilary Mantel
It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.
~ Hilary Mantel