Generosity Quotes - Page 12

• We thought: we're poor, we have nothing, but when we started losing one after the other so each day became remembrance day, we started composing poems about God's great generosity and our former riches.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Remembrance, Each Day, Riches

  Anna Andreevna Akhmatova (1989). “Selected Poems”, Dufour Editions

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• True generosity must benefit both parties. No woman can control her destiny if she doesn't give to herself as much as she gives of herself.

  Suze Orman

  Party, Destiny, Giving

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• As far as the education of children is concerned I think they should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not shrewdness but frankness and a love of truth; not tact but love for one's neighbor and self-denial; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.

  Natalia Ginzburg

  Love, Success, Education

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• I write about the power of trying, because I want to be okay with failing. I write about generosity because I battle selfishness. I write about joy because I know sorrow. I write about faith because I almost lost mine, and I know what it is to be broken and in need of redemption. I write about gratitude because I am thankful - for all of it.

  Kristin Armstrong

  Inspirational, Gratitude, Writing

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• To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one advantage is lost or with resentment when an added gift is denied.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Gratitude, Hurt, Opposites

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• The gospel alone liberates you to live a life of scandalous generosity, unrestrained sacrifice, uncommon valor, and unbounded courage.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Sacrifice, Uncommon, Valor

  Tullian Tchividjian, Nick Lannon (2015). “It Is Finished: 365 Days of Good News”, David C Cook

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• It's rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can't occupy the same space, and if your anger moves in, generosity and creativity often move out. It's difficult to use revenge or animus to fuel great work.

  Seth Godin

  Revenge, Moving, Anger

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• The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation.

  Francine du Plessix Gray

  Events, Meals, Nutrition

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• When you go out with a drunk, you’ll notice how a drunk fills your glass so he can empty his own. As long as you’re drinking, drinking is okay. Two’s company. Drinking is fun. If there’s a bottle, even if your glass isn’t empty, a drunk, he’ll pour a little in your glass before he fills his own. This only looks like generosity.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Fun, Drinking, Glasses

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Invisible Monsters: A Novel”, p.193, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

  George R. R. Martin

  Borrowers, Your Generosity

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• What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leadership, Differences, Making A Difference

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.227, Pan Macmillan

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• At the core of every religion is the belief that we care for everyone....It's not too late to help a neighbor in need and to do it with the swiftness, expertise, generosity and love that resides in the best of who we are.

  George Clooney

  Positive, And Love, Needs

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• I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives.

  Tracy Chapman

  Inspirational, Life, Positive

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• Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness.

  Ted Allen

  Food, Expression, People

  “Things a Man Should Know About Entertainzing” by Ted Allen, www.esquire.com. May 23, 2012.

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• A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

  Diane Sawyer

  Marriage, Contests, Good Marriage

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• In prosperity our friends know us; in adversity we know our friends.

  John Churton Collins

  Love, Friendship, Atheist

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• We all have families who are longing for peace in the world and an end to the suffering caused by poverty, disease, and hunger. Untold numbers of our friends, our neighbors, our parents, and our children, are hoping that there is more understanding, more generosity, more genuine friendship, and more caring among people of all faiths and cultures.

  John Conyers

  Family, Children, Caring

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• I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

  Jonas Salk

  Inspirational, Fitness, Teacher

  On receiving Congressional Medal for Distinguished Civilian Achievement, April 23, 1956.

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• It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

  Fausto Cercignani

  Forgiveness, Maturity, Doubt

  "Simply Transcribed. Quotations from Fausto Cercignani". Book by Brian Morris, p. 21, 2013.

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• There is a wonderful mythical law of nature that the three things we crave most in life-happiness, freedom and peace of mind-are always attained by giving them to someone else.

  Peyton C. March

  Love, Happiness, Karma

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• Let us be patient with one another,
  And even patient with ourselves.
  We have a long, long way to go.
  So let us hasten along the road,
  The road of human tenderness and generosity.
  Groping, we may find one another's hands in the dark.

  Emily Greene Balch

  Dark, Hands, Long

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• Your generosity is more important than your perfection.

  Seth Godin

  Humor, Perfection, Deep Thought

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• All you have shall some day be given. Therefore give now, that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritors.

  Khalil Gibran

  Kindness, Humor, Helping Others

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• He who lives according to the guidance of reason strives as much as possible to repay the hatred, anger, or contempt of others towards himself with love or generosity. ...hatred is increased by reciprocal hatred, and, on the other hand, can be extinguished by love, so that hatred passes into love.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Life, Hands, Hatred

  "Ethics Geometrically Demonstrated". Book by Baruch Spinoza, Prop. 66, 1677.

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