Generosity Quotes - Page 17

O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!

I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.

I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

People are marvelous in their generosity, if they just know the cause is there.

As long as we insist on relating to it strictly on our own terms-as strange to us or subject to us-the wilderness is alien, threatening, fearful. We have no choice then but to become its exploiters, and to lose, by consequence, our place in it. It is only when, by humility, openness, generosity, courage, we make ourselves able to relate to it on its terms that it ceases to be alien.

If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity.

An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.

If you are trying to live a life in accordance with the Bible, the concept and call to justice are inescapable. We do justice when we give all human beings their due as creations of God. Doing justice includes not only the righting of wrongs but generosity and social concern, especially toward the poor and vulnerable.

A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's.

The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before.

People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love.

If it is more blessed to give than to receive, then most of us are content to let the other fellow have the greater blessing.

Viewing the web as a platform for generosity is very different than seeing an opportunity to turn it into an ATM machine.

Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.

Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

Only by realizing what selfishness and lack of generosity really are can the delicious fragrance of true love and effective generosity, which is not of the mind, burst forth in our hearts.

I get angry when someone calls me only rich.. I am happy with my social personality and my generosity.

The wondrous thing about nature, her gift to us, is her wanton promiscuity. She reproduces herself with abandon, with teeming infinite generosity.

We can choose the way of compassion, the way of forgiveness, the way of generosity. Or we can choose other paths and those have very real consequences in the world. This is absolutely crucial.

Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions.

Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads.

You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is generosity.