Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Generosity.
The Return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
Francesco Guicciardini, Counsels
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer
Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.
Kahlil Gibran, Sand and Foam
You must be willing to do the things today others don't do in order to have the things tomorrow others won't have.
Les Brown, Live Your Dreams
I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.
Charles Dickens
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity... in all things, generosity.
George Bush
People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
Sydney J. Harris
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.
Jean de la Bruyere
I want to be remembered as the girl who always smiles even when her heart is broken. And the one that could always brighten up your day even if she couldnt brighten her own.
Anon., (submitted to Quoteland.c
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran
The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.
Madame de Maintenon
The joy that isn't shared dies young.
Anne Sexton
Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.
John Wesley
We all have the means to bestow on others the most lavish gifts; love, joy, peace, hope, kindness, acceptance, encouragement, laughter, forgiveness, time. There is not enough money to buy them and not too little money to give them. The more you spend, the wealthier you become; yet nothing will cost you more than what you freely possess to give.
Eden Eliot, quotation submitted
What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.
Robert of Doncaste
