Generosity Quotes And Sayings

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Generosity Quotes And Sayings


“Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.”
– Og Mandino

“A really great man is known by three signs: generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.”
– Otto Von Bismark

“Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are.”
– Patti Digh

“There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life — happiness, freedom, and peace of mind — are always attained by giving them to someone else.”
– Peyton Conway March

“Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.”
– Piero Ferrucci

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.”
– Plato

“I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it for I shall not pass this way again.”
– Quaker Saying

“Never forget, no matter how overwhelming life’s challenges and problems seem to be, that one person can make a difference in the world. In fact, it is always because of one person that all the changes that matter in the world come about. So be that one person.”
– R. Buckminster Fuller

“Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.”
– Rabindranath Tagore

“You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

“The only gift is a portion of thyself.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.”
– Ray Lyman Wilbur

“Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying.”
– Rebecca Goldstein

“Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.”
– Richard Dawkins

“My generosity must bear a cost or there’d be no value in what you gain from it.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness – these are the gifts which money cannot buy.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson

“We must train ourselves in courage and generosity.”
– Roger Caillois

“When we don’t ask, we don’t let others give. When we fear rejection, we don’t let generosity arise.”
– Roshi Bernie Glassman

“Some people can be so generous when they give nothing away.”
– Rossana Condoleo

“Today, give yourself permission to be outrageously kind, irrationally warm, improbably generous. I promise it will be a blast.”
– Sasha Dicter

“Giving is an essential for spiritual unfoldment, for until we give and give abundantly, we don’t really realize that we are not the giver; we are just a channel for giving.”
– Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

“Selfless service to mankind makes you free in the world of mortals.”
– Satguru Sivaya Subramuniyaswami

“It wasn’t that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.”
– Saul Bellow

“We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.”
– Seneca

“That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.”
– Simone de Beauvoir

“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.”
– Simone Weil

“Most people aren’t remembered for what they’ve done for themselves, they’re remembered for what they’ve done for others and the world.”
– Sonya Parker

“For it is in giving that we receive.”
– St. Francis of Assisi

“A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”
– Steve Maraboli

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