Quotes by Generosity 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 generositytwentiespeople Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness. Friedrich Nietzsche shynessgenerositykind A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed. Herman Melville generosityoceanforests Teach us to give and not to count the cost. Ignatius of Loyola generositycatholicgiving A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it. Idries Shah generositymaymean God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity. Ignatius of Loyola generosityshowersgrace God will not be outdone in generosity. Ignatius of Loyola gods-willgenerosity A very common flower adds generosity to beauty. It gives joy to the poor, to the rude, and to the multitudes who could have no flowers were nature to charge a price for her blossoms. Henry Ward Beecher generosityflowergiving Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity. Henry Ward Beecher generositypovertywatches I’d give him a cup of coffee and a big helping of a knuckle sandwich. Generosity was a virtue and I was in the mood to be extremely virtuous. Ilona Andrews generositycoffeegiving Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days. Irving Stone generositymenpeople Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities. Isaac Barrow generosityqualitymen Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life. Isaac Bashevis Singer generositykindness It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present. J. A. Spender compensationgenerositypromise It needs as much generosity to take as to give. Ivan Panin generositygivingneeds Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel. J. D. Greear radicalgenerosityfocus (I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution. J. M. Coetzee generosityguiltsimple I believe that lack of empathy is behind many problems, and I believe that it's disrupting our society. In Great Britain, there is a steady decline in the willingness to be truly generous, and by that I don't mean monetary generosity, but friendship and sympathy for others. J. K. Rowling generositymeanbelieve A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog. Jack London generositydoggiving 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 Jack Kornfield generosityeasereality«89101112131415161718»
