Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Generosity.
Giving is the business of the rich.
Johann von Goethe
God's bodkin, man, much better: use every man after his desert, and who shall scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity -- the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty?
William Shakespeare
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Give all thou canst; high Heaven rejects the lore of nicely-calculated less or more.
William Wordsworth
The universal law of generosity ensures both the giver and recipient profit
Steve Maraboli
Give yourself entirely to those around you. Be generous with your blessings. A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.
Benjamin Franklin
For this I bless you most: You give much and know not that you give at all.
Kahlil Gibran
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.
JeanPaul Sartre
You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them.
Albert Camus
Make a gift of your life and lift all mankind by being kind, considerate, forgiving, and compassionate at all times, in all places, and under all conditions, with everyone as well as yourself. This is the greatest gift anyone can give.
David R. Hawkins
Lavishness is not generosity.
Thomas Fuller
Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.
Samuel Johnson
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them.
Francis Bacon, Essays, Of Goodne
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
Jean de la Bruyere
A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.
Lord Greville
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.
Anna Jameson
He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
Sir Henry Taylor
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
All that is not given is lost.
Rabindranath Tagore
