Generosity And Giving Quotes - Page 2

• The best things in life aren't things.

  Art Buchwald

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Inspirational, Angel, Helping Others

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• I resolved to stop accumulating and begin the infinitely more serious and difficult task of wise distribution.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Wise

  Andrew Carnegie (2014). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and His Essay: The Gospel of Wealth”, p.186, Courier Corporation

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• Giving is the business of the rich.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Generosity, Giving, Rich

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• One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

  George Eliot

  Money, Luxury, Giving

  George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.2974, ShandonPress

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• Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Generosity, Giving, Catholic

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• I judge all things only by the price they shall gain in eternity.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Giving, Judging

  "The Law of Rewards: Giving What You Can't Keep to Gain What You Can't Lose". Book by Randy C. Alcorn, p. 18, 2003.

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• A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

  D. Elton Trueblood

  Kindness, Men, Garden

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• Service to others is the rent you pay for your room here on earth.

  Muhammad Ali

  Basketball, Kindness, Fighting

  Twitter post from May 26, 2010

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• Best things in life aren't things.

  Mike Ness

  Inspirational, Family, Happiness

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• Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.

  Jesse Jackson

  Inspirational, Life, Respect

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• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Work, Generosity, Giving

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Love, Life, Family

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Gratitude, Lying

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• In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.348, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Quoted in Joseph P. Lash, Eleanor: The Years Alone (1972)

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• No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Life, Leadership, Motivational Sports

  Calvin Coolidge (1920). “Law and Order”

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• If you can't feed a hundred people, then feed just one.

  Mother Teresa

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Christian

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• Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Inspirational, Lying, Generosity

  "Of The Heart". "Characters", Book by Jean De La Bruyère, www.ourcivilisation.com. 1688.

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• It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Live Concerts, Generosity, Roles

  Statement by the Minister for Agriculture, Sharon Dijksma, at the opening of the Global Oceans Action Summit for Food Security and Blue Growth, www.government.nl. April 22, 2014.

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• Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Generosity, Giving, Facts

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel Estella Barnes (1992). “Being and Nothingness”, p.758, Simon and Schuster

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• The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

  Nelson Henderson

  Inspirational, Life, Graduation

  "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

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• I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 04, 2013

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• He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

  Henry Taylor

  Sacrifice, Self, Essence

  Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.13

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• Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Kindness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works of Henry W. Longfellow”

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