Generosity Quotes - Page 34

• As desire abates, generosity is born. When we are connected and present, what else is there to do but give?

  Jack Kornfield

  Giving, Desire, Born

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• See here, if a simple act of kindness or generosity, such as buying a loaf of bread for some poor working women, can mean that wholesale death and destruction will be avoided - why, a man would be a monster who had it in his power to alleviate all that suffering yet stood by and did nothing.

  Stephen R. Lawhead

  Kindness, Mean, Simple

  "The Skin Map". Book by Stephen R. Lawhead, 2010.

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• Should we not begin to redefine patriotism? We need to expand it beyond that narrow nationalism which has caused so much death and suffering. If national boundaries should not be obstacles to trade-we call it globalization-should they also not be obstacles to compassion and generosity?

  Howard Zinn

  Peace, War, Compassion

  "Dying for the Government" by Howard Zinn, progressive.org. July 16, 2007.

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• Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.

  Tina Weymouth

  Keys, Golden, Band

  Source: www.rollingstone.com

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• It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

  Kenneth Branagh

  Honesty, Mean, Thinking

  Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. January 14, 2014.

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• The opposite of consumption is not thrift - it is 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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• What is so interesting about giving is not only that it pays, but that it pays in such unexpected ways. When you live with generosity, blessings come to you from corners and avenues you never would have expected.

  Bob Burg

  Blessing, Giving, Interesting

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• Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love.

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Princess, Compassion, Quality

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• The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Church, Needs, Spirit

  "Homily of his Holiness Benedict XVI". Holy Mass by Pope Benedict XVI for the 23rd World Youth Day at Randwick Racecourse in Sydney, Australia, w2.vatican.va. July 20, 2008.

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• We must agree on what matters: kissing in public places, bacon sandwiches, disagreement, cutting-edge fashion, literature, generosity, water, a more equitable distribution of the world's resources, movies, music, freedom of thought, beauty, love.

  Salman Rushdie

  Fashion, Cutting, Kissing

  "Step Across This Line: Collected Nonfiction 1992-2002". Book by Salman Rushdie, 2003.

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• The poor never estimate as a virtue the generosity of the rich.

  Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

  Rich, Virtue, Poor

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• Courage is generosity of the highest order, for the brave are prodigal of the most precious things.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Order, Brave, Precious Things

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.157

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• Cruel men are the greatest lovers of Mercy, avaricious men of generosity, and proud men of humility; that is to say, in other, not in themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Humility, Men, Proud

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.200

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• As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

  Honore de Balzac

  People, Twenties, Rich

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• Generosity won't happen unless you make it a priority. The best way to make giving a priority is to make it the very first check you write every month. Before the mortgage. Before groceries or clothing. Before saving. Whatever the amount, do it first.

  Andy Stanley

  Writing, Giving, Priorities

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.

  Andy Stanley

  Effort, May, Stuff

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• I want people to help me reanchor the church to undeniable, mind-boggling, culture-shifting demonstration of compassion and generosity. Because, generosity was the hallmark of the early church.

  Andy Stanley

  Compassion, People, Mind

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• Generosity is nothing more seen than in a candid estimation of other men's virtues and good qualities.

  Isaac Barrow

  Men, Quality, Virtue

  Isaac Barrow (1830). “The works of Dr. Isaac Barrow”, p.53

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• All ills spring from some vice, either in ourselves or others; and even many of our diseases proceed from the same origin. Remove the vices; and the ills follow. You must only take care to remove all the vices. If you remove part, you may render the matter worse. By banishing vicious luxury, without curing sloth and an indifference to others, you only diminish industry in the state, and add nothing to men's charity or their generosity.

  David Hume

  Spring, Men, Luxury

  David Hume (1809). “Essays, moral, political, and literary”, p.297

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• What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.

  Charlotte Lennox

  Vanity, Giving, Persons

  Charlotte Lennox (1762). “Sophia”, p.112

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• the psychological attitudes which are indispensable in the American market place are disastrous to family life. Family life ... requires yieldingness, generosity, sympathy, altruism, tenderness-all the qualities, in fact, which lead straight to bankruptcy. ... the American family is tragically out of gear with the profit structure which has mushroomed up around it.

  Margaret Halsey

  Attitude, Quality, Gears

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.

  Heloise

  Gratitude, Guilt, Causes

  Abelard, Heloise “Abelard letters”, Lulu.com

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• it requires a great deal more generosity to take than to give.

  Mary McMullen

  Giving, Deals

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• Try to live with a generous heart. Doing anything else is too hard.

  Susan Elizabeth Phillips

  Heart, Trying, Hard

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• When we do for others, we can't help but be touched by the love and generosity we thought we were giving away.

  Kimberly Kirberger

  Giving, Helping, Touched

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