Generosity Quotes - Page 6

• Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

  B. C. Forbes

  Joy, Selfishness, Helpful

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• This generosity that has been offered to the United States says very much about the Venezuelan spirit.

  Harry Belafonte

  Usa, United States, Spirit

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• Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.

  Abdus Salam

  Race, Nobel, Distinction

  Abdus Salam, C. H. Lai, Azim Kidwai (1989). “Ideals and Realities: Selected Essays of Abdus Salam”, p.374, World Scientific

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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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• If it is more blessed to give than to receive, then most of us are content to let the other fellow have the greater blessing.

  Shailer Mathews

  Blessed, Blessing, Giving

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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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• In all of my years of service to my Lord, I have discovered a truth that has never failed and has never been compromised. That truth is that it is beyond the realm of possibilities that one has the ability to out-give God. Even if I give the whole of my worth to Him, He will find a way to give back to me much more than I gave.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Years, Giving, Way

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• Our true acquisitions lie only in our charities - we gain only as we give.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Lying, Giving, Acquisition

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.19

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• Once you make a lot of money, it's incredibly enjoyable to give it away. It's a way to satisfy the soul.

  Stanley Druckenmiller

  Giving, Soul, Way

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• There are many hearing me who now know well that they are not Christians because they do not love to give. To give largely and liberally, not grudging at all, requires a new heart.

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne

  Christian, Heart, Giving

  Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1847). “Additional Remains of the Rev. Robert Murray M'Cheyne, Late Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee: Consisting of Various Sermons and Lectures Delivered by Him in the Course of His Ministry”, p.394

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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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• 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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• It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Praise, Divine, Should

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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• I'd like for them to say he took a few cups of love, he took one tablespoon of patience, teaspoon of generosity, one pint of kindness. He took one quart of laughter, one pinch of concern, and then, he mix willingness with happiness, he added lots of faith, and he stirred it up well, then he spreads it over his span of a lifetime, and he served it to each and every deserving person he met.

  Muhammad Ali

  Kindness, Laughter, Cups

  "Muhammad Ali...Recipe for Life". www.youtube.com. July 24, 2007.

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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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• What is the chief end of giving? To glorify God and enjoy Him forever.

  Dennis Bakke

  Giving, Forever, Glorifying God

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• Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Honesty, Women

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.124

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• The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Life, Exercise, Inspire

  Les Mots (The Words, 1964) "Lire"

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• Judgment and weariness are foes to service and generosity.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Empowerment, Judgment, Foe

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• You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

  John Wooden

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  Fellowship of Christian Athletes, John Wooden (2010). “The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden”, p.101, Gospel Light Publications

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• There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Simple, Greatness, Justice

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.182

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• In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.348, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Dream, Bodybuilding, Bad Ass

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

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• People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Thinking, People, Faults

  Sydney J. Harris (1964). “ON THE CONTRARY”

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• Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Giving, Facts, Enjoy

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Hazel Estella Barnes (1992). “Being and Nothingness”, p.758, Simon and Schuster

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