Generosity Quotes - Page 22

• Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Kindness, Liars

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• Overcome the angry by non-anger; overcome the wicked by goodness; overcome the miser by generosity; overcome the liar by truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Liars, Wicked

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• "Civilization" has been thrust upon me since the days of the reservations, and it has not added one whit to my sense of justice, to my reverence for the rights of life, to my love for truth, honesty, and generosity, or to my faith in Wakan Tanka, God of the Lakotas.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Honesty, Rights, Civilization

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.258, U of Nebraska Press

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• Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed. Collecting boot is not an end itself, but only a means for building an empire. Riches would be of little use to us now - except as a means of winning new friends.

  Cyrus the Great

  Mean, Army, Winning

  "9 Timeless Leadership Lessons from Cyrus the Great" by Ryan Holiday, www.forbes.com. April 19, 2012.

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• With gentleness overcome anger. With generosity overcome meanness. With truth overcome deceit.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Wise, Buddhist

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• Kindness and generosity ... form the true morality of human actions.

  Madame de Stael

  Kindness, Morality, Action

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• Generosity should never exceed ability.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Should, Ability, Exceed

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• Allah's Generosity is connected to gratitude, and gratitude is linked to increase in His generosity. The generosity of Allah will not stop increasing unless the gratitude of the servant ceases

  Ali ibn Abi Talib

  Wisdom, Gratitude, Islamic

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• Princeton has made an enormous difference in my life, and I am delighted to be able to express my gratitude in such a tangible way. The generosity of earlier generations of donors made it possible for me to attend Princeton as a young student from Hong Kong, and I have always wanted to do all I could to assure that students in the future.. from the United States and around the world.. will have the same kinds of opportunities I had to learn from faculty members who are leaders in their fields at a university that remains second to none in its commitment to teaching.

  Gordon Wu

  Gratitude, Teaching, Commitment

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• Seeker, empty the boat, lighten the load, be free of craving and judgment and hatred, and feel the joy of the way.

  Gautama Buddha

  Hatred, Joy, Way

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• Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its quality and the amount of mental attachment you overcome that count. So don't bankrupt yourself on a momentary positive impulse, only to regret it later. Give thought to giving. Give small things, carefully, and observe the mental processes going along with the act of releasing the little thing you liked.

  Robert Thurman

  Regret, Attachment, Practice

  Robert Thurman (2011). “The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Liberation Through Understanding in the Between”, p.53, Bantam

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• Liberalism -- it is well to recall this today -- is the supreme form of generosity; it is the right which the majority concedes to minorities and hence it is the noblest cry that has ever resounded in this planet. It announces the determination to share existence with the enemy; more than that, with an enemy which is weak.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Determination, Enemy, Majority

  Jose Ortega Y Gasset (1960). “the Revolt of the Masses”

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• If riches increase, let thy mind hold pace with them; and think it not enough to be liberal, but munificent.

  Thomas Browne

  Thinking, Mind, Pace

  Sir Thomas Browne (1831). “Miscellaneous Works of Sir Thomas Browne: With Some Account of the Author and His Writings”, p.261

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• The hand of liberality is stronger than the arm of power.

  Saadi

  Hands, Stronger, Arms

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• Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Half, Stinginess, Meanness

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Where position is felt to be a birthright, generosity is possible (though not guaranteed); flexibility is not inhibited by a commitment to perpetual success.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Commitment, Aristocracy, Position

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• If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.

  James Boswell

  Men, Prodigals, Ifs

  James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”

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• Sometimes we hold on to our possessions because we fear we might run out - life seems scarce. But when we believe that giving is the way to live, we will produce more in the future - life seems abundant.

  John C. Maxwell

  Running, Believe, Giving

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• If you spend too much time watching and fantasizing others while they achieve their dreams you may well miss your own.

  Randall Wright

  Dream, Missing, May

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• Basic anxiety can be roughly described as a feeling of being small, insignificant, helpless, deserted or endangered in a world that is out to abuse, cheat, humiliate, betray, envy... . And special in this is the child's feeling that the parents' love, their Christian charity, honesty, generosity ... may be only a pretense.

  Karen Horney

  Christian, Honesty, Children

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• Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all. Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance. Almsgiving is the generosity of the rich; social aid levels up social inequalities. Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

  Evita Peron

  Men, Doe, Charity

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• Students of cunning have consumed their hearts and learned only tricks; they've thrown away real riches: patience, self-sacrifice, generosity. Rich thought opens the way.

  Rumi

  Real, Heart, Sacrifice

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• All it takes for generosity to flow is awareness. By actively pursuing awareness and knowledge, we can make choices that cause less harm and greater good to others in the global community of our shared earth.

  Zoe Weil

  Choices, Community, Earth

  Zoe Weil (2009). “Most Good, Least Harm: A Simple Principle for a Better World and Meaningful Life”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• It was the seventh of November, 1918. The war was finally over. Maybe it would be declared a holiday and named War's End Day or something equally hopeful and wrong. Wars would break out again. Violence was part of human nature as much as love and generosity.

  Claire Holden Rothman

  War, Holiday, Hopeful

  Claire Holden Rothman (2011). “Heart Specialist”, p.198, Oneworld Publications

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• The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Merry Christmas, People, Soul

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