Inspirational Quotes and Sayings!

“I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.”

“Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them [worlds], we have not yet conquered one?”

“I am not afraid of a pack of lions being led by a sheep, but I am afriad of a pack of sheep led by a lion.”

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.

Heaven cannot brook two suns, nor earth two masters.

Alexander the Great didn’t live for too long but he conquered more in his short lifetime than many generations of many famous kings and emperors.

Alexander left a few quotes, but those few left an impact of a thousand quotes.

Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.

Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.

Do not deceive or be faithless even with your enemy.

God blesses him who helps his brother.

Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.

If you want to control other people, first control yourself.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.

He who is not impressed by sound advice, lacks faith.

Use the same measure for selling that you use for purchasing.

Youth is not restored by the dyeing of your hair.

Good actions are a guard against the blows of adversity.

In the matter of justice, all should be equal in your eyes.

“The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.” ~ Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and statesman.

“Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.”~ Horace Mann

“Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.”~Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“The three signs of great men are — generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.” ~Otto von Bismarck, The First Chancellor of Germany

“To generous souls every task is noble.”~ Euripides, the Greek Tragedian

“The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”~ Jean-Paul Sartre, The french existentialist philosopher and novelist.

“Money is like manure; it’s not worth a thing unless it’s spread around encouraging young things to grow.”~Thornton Wilder

“Love is when the other person’s happiness is more important than your own.” ~H. Jackson Brown

“The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.”~ Jean-Paul Sartre

“You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give.”~ Winston Churchill

“Generosity is the accompaniment of high birth; pity and gratitude are its attendants.” ~Pierre Corneille

“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”~ Albert Camus

“Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.”~Albert Camus

“If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.” ~Mother Teresa

“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” ~Kahlil Gibran

More Kahlil Gibran Quotes.

“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”~Buddha

“What seems generosity is often disguised ambition, that despises small to run after greater interests.”~ Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld the French author of maxims and memoirs.

“Valour, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule — these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature.” From the Bhagavad Gita