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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
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
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
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
Giving, goodness and generosity expresses love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
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
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
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
We get to make a living; we give to make a life.
— Winston Churchill
If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there's no sense telling the story.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
