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Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others. — B.C. Forbes

With alcoholic ritual, the whole point is generosity. If you open a bottle of wine, for heaven's sake have the grace to throw away the damn cork. — Christopher Hitchens

The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India. — Swami Vivekananda

Ravana all your wealth is wasted, what's the use of being rich if you won't spend your gold to do good for other people? — William Buck

Let us proportion our alms to our ability, lest we provoke God to proportion His blessings to our alms. — William Beveridge

We will be a country of generosity and warmth. But we will also be a country of law and order. — Donald Trump

Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion. — Mahatma Gandhi

Whether we live in poverty or prosperity, we can still live generously. — Dillon Burroughs

Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man. — Alexander Pope

The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are. — Johnnetta B. Cole

Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life. — John Ruskin

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative. — Honore De Balzac

O heresy in fair, fit for these days,
A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise. — William Shakespeare

Those dogs of the hajj go to Mecca to pray when they don't possess even the decency or generosity of spirit to pardon or forgive. — Yousef Al-Mohaimeed

It touches every aspect of our social lives, our loving and hating, fighting and cooperating, giving and stealing, our greed and our generosity. — Richard Dawkins

We keep what we give away. — Tim Hiller

Forbearance is a form of generosity. — Gretchen Rubin

God demonstrates generosity, then asks it from His people. — Max Anders

I am infinitely more touched by your extreme generosity than with the inhumanity of that gentleman — Voltaire

To sense which gifts to accept & which to leave behind is our path to discovering freedom. — Sharon Salzberg

All my life,
Following Care along the dusty road,
Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed ... — Edna St. Vincent Millay

Once you make a lot of money, it's incredibly enjoyable to give it away. It's a way to satisfy the soul. — Stanley Druckenmiller

Books and bottles breed generosity, and the bibliophile and the oenophile og through life scattering largesse from their libraries and cellars — Holless Wilbur Allen

Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity. — Nhat Hanh

Generosity toward the lower classes historically has never been an important part of upper-class awareness. — Michael Parenti

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. — Frank A. Clark

Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter. — Gary W. Goldstein

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return. — Muhammad Ali

Go on," he offered magnanimously. "Feel free to piss on yourselves and
cower helplessly."
Gods, sometimes his generosity overwhelmed him. — G.A. Aiken

Generosity needs no logrolling. — Toba Beta

What is bought is cheaper than a gift. — Miguel De Cervantes

He loved to shock, even with generosity. It was like punching someone. — Jennifer Clement

I truly believe that generosity begets generosity. You give before you receive. — Josh Garrels

Giving, goodness and generosity expresses love. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin. — Tacitus

Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity. — Mary Anne Radmacher

The heart is a generous muscle. — Sharon Salzberg

The generosity of Montanans is inspiring. — Brian Schweitzer

A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it. — Idries Shah

Generosity is often the stalking horse of control. — Anne Truitt

The generosity of the poor, she thought, wasn't rare, just rarely noticed. — Rainy Kirkland

When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received. — Gautama Buddha

The generosity of the American people is legendary. So is their spirit. — Marsha Blackburn

Generosity is giving until it makes you uncomfortable. — Shaun King

Our generosity is measured not by what we give but by what we keep. — Fulton J. Sheen

We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed. — Madeleine M. Kunin

We need to help younger people recognize their own capacity to do good, and help them discover the rewards of generosity. — William J. Clinton

The gift without the giver is rare. — James Russell Lowell

All things merge in one another - good into evil, generosity into justice, religion into politics ... — Thomas Hardy

The dead hold in their hands only what they have given away. — Carl Sandburg

Ryan Murphy just gives new people a shot, and it takes a lot of confidence and generosity to do that. — Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

I think we need to recover the depth, the subtlety, the generosity of imagination, the respect for wisdom that so marked Islam in its great ages. — Prince Charles

It may be said that people who give more, get more. — Eraldo Banovac

I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness! — Jennifer Aniston

The difference between being nice and being a doormat depends on whether you're choosing the time of your generosity or someone else is. — John Mulhall

We get to make a living; we give to make a life. — Winston Churchill

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by doing that some have entertained angels without knowing it. — Anonymous

If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there's no sense telling the story. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

good works gathered in a thousand ages, such as deeds of generosity, or offerings to the blissful ones, a single flash of anger shatters them. — Santideva

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity. — Elia Kazan

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. — Francesco Guicciardini

In our willingness to give that which we seek, we keep the abundance of the universe circulating in our lives. — Deepak Chopra

Goodness, generosity, or love does not come into being save through the search for reality. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

The cuisine, it is all about putting generosity before rigour and pleasure before lucidity. — Pierre Gagnaire

When in doubt, err on the side of generosity. — Ping Fu

Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation. — Eric Hoffer

Detroit is a place where we've had it pretty tough. But there is a generosity here and a well of kindness that goes deep. — Mitch Albom

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. — George Eliot

Asking for and receiving help is a way to prime the pump of generosity. — Jay Perry

Generosity knows how to count, but refrains. — Mason Cooley

One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors. — Cyril Cusack

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

Soften, to connect with your heart and engender a basic attitude of generosity and compassion toward yourself, the archetypal coward. — Pema Chodron

Lord, help us to live the virtue of generosity, to love without limits. — Pope Francis

I'll sum up the key to success in one word: generosity. — Keith Ferrazzi

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

What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao. — Laozi

Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness. — Dalai Lama XIV

[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require. — William Branch Giles

Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity. — Mother Teresa

After decades away from the Midwest, she'd forgotten that bewildering generosity was a common regional tic. — J. Ryan Stradal

Generosity isn't an act. It's a way of life. — Chip Ingram

When you make the decision to give something to a person who has nothing, that something has just become their everything. — Mark W. Boyer

Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves! — Honore De Balzac

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

Men are always murderers, and their calmness and generosity is the calmness of a well-fed animal, that knows itself out of danger. — Leonid Andreyev

America has a long and rich tradition of generosity that began with simple acts of neighbor helping neighbor. — Helen Boosalis

I knew how it was with drunks. They ran out of generosity, even for themselves. — Ross Macdonald

Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined. — James Cook

A Single Generosity Enlarges the World. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Generosity is always cheaper than greed. — Jon Acuff

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty, and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady. — Thomas Huxley

The spirit of Christmas is - and hopefully always will be - about goodwill and generosity to others and peace on earth. — Nick Rahall

We have had the morality of submission, and the morality of chivalry and generosity; the time is now come for the morality of justice. — John Stuart Mill

Generosity does not come from wealth. Wealth comes from the flowers of kindness and love. — Debasish Mridha

Generosity is a lifestyle that seeks to understand the needs of others and strives to bring an end to that suffering. — Jeff Shinabarger

When our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success. — W. Clement Stone

The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich. — Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach

The best things to do with the best things in life is to give them away. — Dorothy Day

A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough. — Morton Blackwell