best quotations about
Generosity |
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Quotations
 | Give money, don't lend it. Giving only makes ungrateful people, lending makes enemies. — Alexandre Dumas, fils, 1824-1895, French writer 7 likes |
 | We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give. — Winston Churchill, 1874-1965, British Prime Minister, Nobel 1953 7 likes |
 | The hand that gives is above the hand that takes. — Napoleon, 1769-1821, French Emperor 5 likes |
 | Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are bankrupt. — Honoré de Balzac, 1799-1850, French writer 5 likes |
 | A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. — George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish writer, Nobel 1925 4 likes |
 | To trust people is a luxury in which only the wealthy can indulge; the poor cannot afford it. — E. M. Forster, 1879-1970, British writer 4 likes |
 | In matters of feeling and of the heart, too much is always better than too little. — José Saramago, 1922-2010, Portuguese writer [Nobel 1998] (The Cave, 2000) 4 likes |
 | To do more for the world than the world does for you – that is success. — Henry Ford, 1863-1947, American industrialist, founder of FORD 4 likes |
 | Lavishness is not generosity. — Dr. Thomas Fuller, 1654-1734, English physician and adage collector 3 likes |
 | The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity. — Christopher Hitchens, 1949-2011, British-American journalist & writer 3 likes |
 | Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. — Khalil Gibran, 1883-1931, Lebanese-American poet & philosopher 3 likes |
 | There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes. — Charles Baudelaire, 1821-1867, French poet 3 likes |
 | No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave. — Calvin Coolidge, 1872-1933, American President [1923-1929] 3 likes |
 | We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. — Mignon McLaughlin, 1913-1983, American magazine editor 2 likes |
 | You can’t live a perfect day until you do something for someone who will never be able to repay you. — John Wooden, 1910-2010, American basketball coach 2 likes |
 | Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr., 1940-2021, American self-help writer 2 likes |
 | If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke. — Brendan Francis, 1923-1964, Irish poet & writer 2 likes |
 | It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving. — Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Albanian-Indian nun & missionary 2 likes |
 | One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. — George Eliot, 1819-1880, English writer 2 likes |
 | If you throw money out of the window throw it out with joy. Don’t say: 'one shouldn’t do that' - that is bourgeois. — Karl Lagerfeld, 1933-2019, German fashion designer 2 likes |
 | When you learn, teach, when you get, give. — Maya Angelou, 1928-2014, American poet 1 likes |
 | That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. — Simone De Beauvoir, 1908-1986, French writer 1 likes |
 | A woman who is generous to her lover is not generous enough to herself. |
| One must be poor to know the luxury of giving. |
 | When you give, give with joy and smiling. |
| Give, but give until it hurts. — Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Albanian-Indian nun & missionary |
 | 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. |
| Generous people make bad merchants. |
 | If you are going to give up, do it right away and you will be described as generous. But if you give up after thinking, everybody will assume that you are weak. |
 | Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. |
 | Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred. |
 | To be generous is to say yes before the man even opens his mouth. |
 | Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. |
 | Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity. |
Latin Quotes
 | He who gives quickly, gives double. Bis dat, qui dat celeriter. — Publilius Syrus, 1st cent. AD, Roman author of maxims 31 likes |
