Best 736 quotes in «generosity quotes» category

Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow.

Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.

My main philosophy is that money is a loan from God. I'm in charge of it. I'm responsible for investin it, giving some of it away, providing for my family, and protecting it.

My personal prayer is simply my joy to be alive, and to live in gratitude and generosity.

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

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

Never lie under any circumstances.

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

Nirvana manifests as ease, as love, as connectedness, as generosity, as clarity, as unshakable freedom. This isn’t watering down nirvana. This is the reality of liberation that we can experience, sometimes in a moment and sometimes in transformative ways that change our entire life

My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

No matter how much we enjoy following the lives of the rich and famous, we know the world is affected more deeply by quiet, even invisible acts of integrity, kindness, and generosity, than by fame and fortune.

Never worry about numbers. Help one person at a time and always start with the person nearest you.

No one is self-sufficient. And it's not a one-way thing- -the generosity of spirit from one side provokes a response in kind from the other side.

Nowhere are the generosity and the kindness and mercy of God more manifest than in repentance.

Nowhere has truth such a short life as in Sicily; a fact has scarcely happened five minutes before its genuine kernel has vanished, been camouflaged, embellished, disfigured, squashed, annihilated by imagination and self interest; shame, fear, generosity, malice, opportunism, charity, all the passions, good as well as evil, fling themselves onto the fact and tear it to pieces; very soon it has vanished altogether.

No psychological message is so open to question as that which tells us that we have nothing left to do or to give.

Occasionally problems will occur. When it happens to your customers, fix the problem fast. Make it your speed and generosity that gets remembered, not the problem.

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

OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.

O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.

Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.

Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.

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

Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable.

One is not born into the world to do everything but to do something.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

One can love any man that is generous.

One truth is that suffering raises profound questions with the universe. The other truth is that grace, gift and generosity also raise profound questions.

Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

One promises much, to avoid giving little.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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

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.

Only by giving are you able to receive more than you already have.

Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all.

Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.

Our football belongs to the working class and has the size, nobility and generosity to allow everyone to enjoy it as a spectacle.

Our humanist community should be thinking more about demonstrating the fundamental truth that goodness requires neither God nor the belief in God by organizing together as a community to do good. 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.

Out of the freedom from worry that God's generosity provides comes an impulse toward simplicity rather than accumulation.

Out of the Indian approach to life there came a great freedom, an intense and absorbing respect for life, enriching faith in a Supreme Power, and principles of truth, honesty, generosity, equity, and brotherhood as a guide to mundane relations.

Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

Oxytocin infusion increases generosity in unilateral monetary transfers by 80 percent [and] increases donations to charity by 50 percent.

O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.

Out of the house and on my own, I faced the fact I didn't much like who I was. I didn't like my judgmentalism; I didn't like my absolutism. I didn't like my repression of natural empathy, my pinched lack of emotional generosity. How I had been thinking politically had less to do with what was wrong with the world and more to do with what was wrong with me, with my fears and insecurities, failings, weaknesses.

Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing.

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

People do not give from the top of their purses but from the bottom of their hearts. If you desire to become a more generous person do not change your income. Change your heart.