Stinginess Quotes

• Trust allows you to give. Giving is abundant. As you give so it shall be given to you. If you give with judgment, limitation and stinginess, that is what you will create in your life - judgment, limitation, and stinginess.

  Gary Zukav

  Giving, Judgment, Given

  Gary Zukav (2014). “The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Generosity, Half, Meanness

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• The concept that a person who has a lot holds his hand out to someone who has less, or someone who isn't hurting holds his hand out to someone who is, is simply a human trait that has nothing to do with celebrity. I am confounded at the stinginess of some institutions and some people. I'm bewildered by it. You can only put away so much stuff in your closet.

  Paul Newman

  Hurt, Hands, People

  "Paul Newman's Road To Glory". Interview with Paul Fischer, www.filmmonthly.com. July 1, 2002.

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• Courtesy is the one coin you can never have too much of or be stingy with.

  John Wanamaker

  Flipping A Coin, Coins, Too Much

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• If beings knew, as I know, the results of sharing gifts, they would not enjoy their gifts without sharing them with others, nor would the taint of stinginess obsess the heart and stay there. even if it were their last and final bit of food, they would not enjoy its use without sharing it, if there were anyone to receive it

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Heart, Finals

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• You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning)

  Amy Tan

  Thinking, People, Mind

  Amy Tan (2012). “Saving Fish From Drowning”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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• Diligence means to be keen in matters of virtue and justice, but worldly people use diligence to solve their economic difficulties. Frugality means to have little desire for material goods, but worldly people use frugality as a cover for stinginess. Thus do watchwords of enlightened life turn into tools for the private business of small people. What a pity!

  Zicheng Hong

  Mean, People, Justice

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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

  Generosity, Giving, Als

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• It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever... Enter here, therefore, as a sovereign remedy for the narrowness of our minds and the stinginess of our souls.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Food, Forever, Cooking

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• You can never have too much sky.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Beach, Sky, Flipping A Coin

  Sandra Cisneros (2013). “The House on Mango Street”, p.50, Vintage

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• Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who were before you. It incited them to shed blood and treat the unlawful as lawful.

  Muhammad

  Islamic, Blood, Darkness

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• stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

  Laura Lippman

  Selfishness, Size, Currents

  Laura Lippman (1999). “In big trouble”

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• A runner is a miser, spending the pennies of his energy with great stinginess, constantly wanting to know how much he has spent and how much longer he will be expected to pay. He wants to be broke at precisely the moment he no longer needs his coin.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Energy, Needs, Coins

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• You can never have too much money.

  Jess C Scott

  Beach, Too Much, Garlic

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• Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Faults, Facility

  "Correspondence Conference Documents".

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• You can never have too much, butter.

  Julie Powell

  Beach, Too Much, Garlic

  "Julie & Julia". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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