Generosity Quotes - Page 25

• 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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• You know what love is?
  It is all kindness, generosity.

  Rumi

  Kindness, Love Is, All Kinds

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• And as we meet needs on earth, we are proclaiming a gospel that transforms lives for eternity. The point is not simply to meet a temporary need or change a startling statistic; the point is to exalt the glory of Christ as we express the gospel of Christ through the radical generosity of our lives.

  David Platt

  Needs, Earth, Christ

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• My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.

  Erik Estrada

  Couple, Hands, Years

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• Generosity isn't an act. It's a way of life.

  Chip Ingram

  Way

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• It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Heart, Depth, Comfort

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• Ask for help. Receiving is an act of generosity.

  Cheryl Richardson

  Receiving, Helping, Asks

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• If a man be endowed with a generous mind, this is the best kind of nobility.

  Plato

  Men, Mind, Kind

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• True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.

  Suze Orman

  Offering, Strings Attached, Expectations

  "The 8 Qualities of a Successful Life" by Suze Orman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2013.

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• Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion and loving-kindness .

  Dalai Lama

  Attitude, Kindness, Compassion

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• I respect generosity in people, and I respect it in companies too, I don't look at it as philanthropy; I see it as an investment in the community.

  Paul Newman

  People, Community, Looks

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• I know. I know that I shall never again meet anything or anybody who will inspire me with passion. You know, it's quite a job starting to love somebody. You have to have energy, generosity, blindness. There is even a moment, in the very beginning, when you have to jump across a precipice: if you think about it you don't do it. I know I'll never jump again.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Jobs, Passion, Thinking

  Jean-Paul Sartre (2013). “Nausea”, p.128, New Directions Publishing

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• Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.

  Seth Godin

  Hard Work, Long, Way

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• Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Giving, Trying, Spirit

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• Let us pray for all good and faithful priests who dedicate themselves to their people with generosity and unknown sacrifices.

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Sacrifice, People

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• Let me think about the people I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me, I still love them. I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them - Then let me extend that generosity to myself.

  Ze Frank

  Thinking, People, Giving

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• Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen

  Martin Luther

  Loyalty, Kindness, Grace

  Martin Luther “Jesus, Remember Me: Words of Assurance from Martin Luther”, Augsburg Books

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• Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Giving, Als, Stinginess

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• I don't believe we're only motivated by our own self-interests. Often out of crisis comes this enormous wellspring of generosity and motivation.

  Josh Fox

  Motivation, Believe, Self

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The cuisine, it is all about putting generosity before rigour and pleasure before lucidity.

  Pierre Gagnaire

  Cuisine, Pleasure, Rigour

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• The opposite of consumption isn't thrift. It's generosity.

  Raj Patel

  Opposites, Consumption, Thrift

  Raj Patel (2009). “The Value Of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy”, p.29, Granta

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• Generosity makes us happiest. We'll be happier people when we share, not when we impose, but when we learn from one another. Because when I'm connected to everyone I disappear... in being excellent you lose yourself. And when you're connected to everyone, that's the best thing that can happen.

  Raj Patel

  People, Losing Yourself, Excellent

  Raj Patel's speech at "21minuti", www.youtube.com. December 14, 2009.

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• If you strive to become a good human being with the qualities of generosity, humility and having reverence for life...just maybe you'll become a great musician.

  Charlie Haden

  Humility, Quality, Musician

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