Generosity Quotes - Page 20

Guys who dress up like Santa Claus, see, and give presents away do it because when they was young they must have did something bad and they feel guilty about it. So now they do something they think is good to make up for it, see?

Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.

Happiness never decreased by being shared.

When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

How seldom is generosity perfect and pure! How often do men give because it throws a certain inferiority on those who receive, and superiority on themselves!

On why I don't trust democracy without extremely powerful systems of accountability and recall What seems to be generosity is often only disguised ambition - which despises small interests to gain great ones.

Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a closed mouth.

If we keep a goal firmly in mind, we will know when we have reached it. This gives us a sense of accomplishment and the challenge of establishing fresh, new goals - always keeping the long-range objective in mind. If we can state our goals clearly, we will gain a purpose and meaning in all our actions.

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.

Here's where the real power of generosity comes in. Often, the more we give, the more we receive.

Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.

What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

Giving is true loving.

Time cannot be packaged and ribboned and left under trees for christmas morning.Time can't be given.But it can be shared

I want to be able to fight for what I'm worth, not someone else's generosity.

Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost.

The key word of the dedicated Christian should be 'give.' Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity.

You only get to keep what you give away.

The water of life was given to us to make us see for a while that we are more nearly men and women, more nearly kind and gentle and generous, pleasanter and stronger than without its vision there is any evidence we are.

A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine.

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity.