“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
“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
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