Generosity Quotes - Page 5

• Here's where the real power of generosity comes in. Often, the more we give, the more we receive.

  Debbie Macomber

  Real, Giving, Collaboration

  Debbie Macomber (2009). “One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Law, Sovereign, Reason

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham”, p.165

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• There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased; till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive.

  Herbert Spencer

  Envy, Mountain, Decay

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• In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.

  Gregory Peck

  Art, Compassion, Humanity

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• Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.

  John French Sloan

  Art, Students, Nickels

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• True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Law, Duty, True Generosity

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.183

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• It wasn't that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.

  Saul Bellow

  Giving, Significant, Routes

  Saul Bellow (1984). “The Adventures of Augie March”

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• He that gives all, though but little, gives much; because God looks not to the quantity of the gift, but to the quality of the givers.

  Francis Quarles

  Giving, Quality, Looks

  Francis Quarles (1856). “Enchiridion: Containing Institutions--divine: Contemplative, Practical; Moral: Ethical, Œconomical, Political”, p.71

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• If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

  Bob Hope

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• The greatest gift is a portion of thyself.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Teacher, Appreciation, Teaching

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• Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Kindness, Sacrifice

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

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• He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

  Henry Taylor

  Sacrifice, Self, Essence

  Henry Taylor (1853). “Notes from Life in Seven Essays”, p.13

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• All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Ninety Nine, World, Safe

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.27

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• You can't get unless you give. And you have to give without wanting to get.

  Theodore White

  Thanksgiving, Giving

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• What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Ambition, Order, Interest

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• I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

  Mother Teresa

  Women, Responsibility, Doors

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.27, New World Library

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• Giving is true loving.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Giving, Stewardship

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• Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the poor be the trumpet of thy gift, lest in seeking applause, thou lose thy reward. Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand and a closed mouth.

  Francis Quarles

  Hands, Giving, Weakness

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• I was once young and now I am old, but not once have I been witness to God's failure to supply my need when first I had given for the furtherance of His work. He has never failed in His promise, so I cannot fail in my service to Him.

  William Carey

  Promise, Needs, Firsts

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• The only investment I ever made which has paid consistently increasing dividends is the money I have given to the Lord.

  James L. Kraft

  God, Money, Giving

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• A man should fear when he only enjoys what good he does publicly. Is it not the publicity rather than the charity he loves? Is it not vanity, rather than benevolence, that gives such charities?

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Love Is, Men, Vanity

  "Gems of Truth & Beauty".

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• The love of Jesus is at once avid and generous. All that He has, all that He is, He gives; all that we are, all that we have, He takes.

  John of Ruysbroeck

  Love, Christian, Jesus

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• We need to be generous with the women following in our footsteps in the hope that they will be generous with us.

  Tina Sloan

  Needs, Following, Footsteps

  Tina Sloan (2010). “Changing Shoes: Staying in the Game with Style, Humor, and Grace”, p.65, Penguin

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• Things themselves do not remain, but their effects do. Therefore we should not be mean and calculating with what we have but give with a generous hand. Look at how much people give to players and dancers-why not give just as much to Christ?

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Mean, Player, Hands

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• I am convinced that the devil has caused the subject of giving to stir up resistance and resentment among God's people because he knows there are few ways of spiritual enrichment like the exercise of faithful stewardship.

  Stephen F Olford

  Spiritual, Exercise, People

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