Generosity Quotes - Page 30

• Happiness never decreased by being shared.

  Gautama Buddha

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• Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Powerful, People, Comfort

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• Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

  Megan Chance

  Patience, Men, Impatient

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• Love leads us into mystery where no one can say what comes next, or how, or why.

  Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

  Next, Mystery

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• I once made the mistake of writing a story with David Corbett. The man smoked me. He can delineate the character and personality of an accordion in three strokes. I didn't even know accordions had character. This act of generosity and wisdom from a very good writer will help anyone who is staring at a blank page, any day, any time. Highly recommended.

  Luis Alberto Urrea

  Mistake, Writing, Character

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• Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.

  Gautama Buddha

  Expression, Giving, Joy

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• To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perseverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important

  Rafe Esquith

  Perseverance, Teacher, Hard Work

  Rafe Esquith (2008). “There Are No Shortcuts”, p.156, Anchor

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• Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses art; it extinguishes every spark of noble ardor and generosity in the breasts of those who are enslaved by it; it makes naturally strong and great minds feeble and little, and triumphs over the ruins of virtue and humanity.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Art, Strong, Ignorance

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• And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the great difference between human beings. . . . The imagination is the mother of pity, the mother of generosity, the mother of every possible virtue. It is by the imagination that you are enabled to put yourself in the place of another.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Mother, Differences

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4535, Library of Alexandria

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• In doing one's work primarily for God, the fear of undue restriction is put, sooner or later, out of the question. He pays me and He pays me well. He pays me and He will not fail to pay me. He pays me not merely for the rule of thumb task, which is all that men recognize, but to everything else I bring to my job in the way of industry, good intentions and cheerfulness. If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, as St. Paul says, we may depend upon it that He loveth a cheerful worker; and where we can cleave the way to His love there we find His endless generosity.

  Basil King

  Love, Jobs, Fear

  Basil King (2012). “The Conquest of Fear”, p.172, tredition

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• These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Evil, Relaxation

  'More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter' (1885) 'Epilogue of the Cigar Divan'

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• There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Self, Years, Satisfaction

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• The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first prompts the child to acts of generosity and even of self-sacrifice, to very touching demonstrations which are in no way prescribed. And here no doubt is the starting point for that morality of good which we shall see developing alongside of the morality of right or duty, and which in some persons completely replaces it.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Sacrifice, Self

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• Dating is like trying to catch a fish. Some guys go to the gym and have huge muscles and six-pack abs, and that attracts a lot of women. Other guys, they go and learn how to become pick-up artists so they charm their way into a woman's heart, at least for the night. Then there are guys like myself, who don't have either of those, but we have some level of generosity and can treat women with respect and open a door for them or buy them gifts. And surprisingly, buying presents happens to be one of the languages of love! And it's one that many women relate to.

  Brandon Wade

  Heart, Artist, Night

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• The kingdom that Jesus preached and lived was all about a glorious, uproarious, absurd generosity.

  N. T. Wright

  Jesus, Kingdoms, Absurd

  N. T. Wright (2004). “Luke for Everyone”, p.80, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Generosity is giving until it makes you uncomfortable.

  Shaun King

  Giving, Uncomfortable

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• [God] is perfect not only insofar as He is absolute perfection, defining perfection in Himself and from His singular existence and total perfection, but also because He is far beyond being so. He sets a boundary to the boundless and in His total unity He rises above all limitation. He is neither contained nor comprehended by anything. He reaches out to everything and beyond everything and does so with unfailing generosity and unstinted activity.

  Pope Dionysius

  Christian, Perfect, Unity

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• Generosity, pleasing address, courage and propriety of conduct are not acquired, but are inbred qualities.

  Chanakya

  Wisdom, Quality, Inbreds

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• The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Land, Humanity

  Swami Vivekananda, Vivekananda Kendra (2009). “Swami Vivekananda's Rousing Call to Hindu Nation”, p.11, Vivekananda Kendra

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• Generosity is an activity that loosens us up. By offering whatever we can - a dollar, a flower, a word of encouragement - we are training in letting go.

  Pema Chodron

  Letting Go, Encouragement, Flower

  Pema Chodron (2003). “Comfortable with Uncertainty: 108 Teachings on Cultivating Fearlessness and Compassion”, p.133, Shambhala Publications

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• Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost.

  Bob Keeshan

  Children, America, Cost

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• Peace is generosity. It is right and it is duty.

  Oscar Romero

  Peace, Duty, Dynamism

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• Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.

  Timothy Keller

  Currency, Your Generosity

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• We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

  Eric Hoffer

  Winning, Weakness, Wealth

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• I want to be able to fight for what I'm worth, not someone else's generosity.

  Carlos Newton

  Fighting, Want, Able

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