 
|
I want to be remembered as the girl who always smiles even when her heart is broken. And the one that could always brighten up your day even if she couldnt brighten her own.
-Anon.
(submitted to Quoteland.com by 'Stevie')
|
|
|
|
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
-Francis Bacon
Essays, Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature, 1625
|
|
|
|
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
-Henry Ward Beecher
|
|
|
|
The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.
-Hada Bejar
|
|
|
|
I was young and now I am old, yet I have never seen the righteous forsaken or their children begging bread. They are always generous and lend freely; their children will be blessed.
-Bible
Psalm 37:25,26 NIV
|
|
|
|
You must be willing to do the things today others don't do in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have.
-Les Brown
Live Your Dreams
|
|
|
|
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
-Jean De La Bruyere
|
|
|
|
The more he cast away the more he had.
-John Bunyan
|
|
|
|
I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity... in all things, generosity.
-George Bush
|
|
|
|
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
|
|
|
|
We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.
-Sir Winston Churchill
|
|
|
|
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them.
-Barry Duncan
|
|
|
|
We all have the means to bestow on others the most lavish gifts; love, joy, peace, hope, kindness, acceptance, encouragement, laughter, forgiveness, time. There is not enough money to buy them and not too little money to give them. The more you spend, the wealthier you become; yet nothing will cost you more than what you freely possess to give.
-Eden Eliot
quotation submitted to Quoteland.com
|
|
|
|
It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
|
|
|
|
To generous souls every task is noble.
-Euripides
|
|
|
|
Lavishness is not generosity.
-Thomas Fuller
|
|
|
|
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
-Kahlil Gibran
|
|
|
|
For this I bless you most: You give much and know not that you give at all.
-Kahlil Gibran
The Prophet - The Farewell
|
|
|
|
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
-Kahlil Gibran
Sand and Foam
|
|
|
|
It is melancholy to reflect that Mankind has suffered more from ill-judged philanthropy than from calculated malice. The road to Hell is no less harrowing for being paved with good intentions.
-Giles St. Aubyn
biography of King Edward VII
|
|
|
|
Giving is the business of the rich.
-Johann von Goethe
|
|
|
|
A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.
-Lord Greville
|
|
|
|
The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
-Francesco Guicciardini
Counsels and Reflections
|
|
|
|
People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
-Sydney J. Harris
|
|
|
|
Make a gift of your life and lift all mankind by being kind, considerate, forgiving, and compassionate at all times, in all places, and under all conditions, with everyone as well as yourself. This is the greatest gift anyone can give.
-David R. Hawkins
|
|
Books about Generosity
