Generosity Quotes
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We're told compassion comes not from generosity but from compliance. We're told kindness means raiding a man's hard-earned wages and sending them off to Washington so they - not you - may dole them out in courtesies and indulgences.
Allen West
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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
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'Tis only from the selfishness and confin'd generosity of men, along with the scanty provision nature has made for his wants, that justice derives its origin.
David Hume
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Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about.
Wendy Mass
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Give generously. How much is generous? There's no one-size-fits-all answer. If you've never tithed, start there - then begin to stretch your generosity.
Randy Alcorn
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There was always an unspoken generosity about my mom.
Matt Lauer
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Tithing is considerably less popular than words like generosity or sharing.
John Ortberg
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Real love doesn't seek to acquire. It gives itself away. Its very nature is that of surrender, service, and generosity.
Catherine Ingram
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Your average knitter, obsessed as we are with the art form, is quickly going to begin producing far more in the way of warm things than are needed by even an arctic-bound knitter. Knitting breeds generosity, true...but perhaps in a hurry to avoid burying ourselves in hand-knits. There are only so many scarves one knitter can use.
Stephanie Pearl-McPhee
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Great innovations, powerful interactions and real art are often produced by someone in a state of wonder. Looking around with stars in your eyes and amazement at the tools that are available to you can inspire generosity and creativity and connection
Seth Godin
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The currency of real networking is not greed but generosity.
Keith Ferrazzi
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That's the whole challenge of life - to act with honor and hope and generosity, no whatter what you've drawn. You can't help when or what you were born, you may not be able to help how you die; but you can - and you should - try to pass the days between as a good man.
Anton Myrer
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Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.
Tina Weymouth
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Christmas is more that a time of festivities, family, and friends; it is a season of generosity, gladness, and gratitude.
William Arthur Ward
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Where envy reigns virtue can't exist, and generosity doesn't go with meanness.
Miguel de Cervantes
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Living with generosity creates a swelling tide that raises all ships. Not just yours; not just the other person's; everyone's.
Bob Burg
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The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.
Rumi
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The phenomenal generosity of the United States in its aid budget towards health issues is the best in the world. You can look at that broadly, you can look at it in terms of HIV, the PEPFAR money which came together in a Republican administration with bipartisan support.
Bill Gates
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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
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Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style.
Rebecca Solnit
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There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.
Oliver Goldsmith
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Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.
Seth Godin
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Quality and title have such allurements that hundreds are ready to give up all their own importance, to cringe, to flatter, to look little, and to pall every pleasure in constraint, merely to be among the great, though without the least hopes of improving their understanding or sharing their generosity. They might be happier among their equals.
Oliver Goldsmith
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At this critical time, I am grateful to Sandra Bullock for once again demonstrating her leadership, compassion and belief in our global humanitarian mission. Sandra continues to enable our lifesaving work and is a model for personal generosity.
Sandra Bullock