Generosity
232 quotes: 42 by Keith Craft, 190 from other voices.
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- Give what you have. To some one it may be better than you dare to think.
- Giving is the insured way of getting.Mark Victor HansenCommonly attributed
- Go out into the world and do good until there is too much good in the world.
- God blesses us so that we might bless others!Charles StanleyCommonly attributed
- God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.
- Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
- Happiness is the only thing that multiplies when you share it.
- Having, First, gained all you can, and, Secondly saved all you can, Then “give all you can.”
- He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly.
- He finds assistance in adversity who renders services in prosperity.
- He hath riches sufficient, who hath enough to be charitable.
- 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.
- He who does good to others makes the biggest gift to himself.
- He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.
- He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving, has but glanced at the joys of charity.
- He who is not liberal with what he has, does but deceive himself when he thinks he would be liberal if he had more.
- He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.SenecaCommonly attributed
- He who wishes to secure the good of others has already secured his own.
- Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.
- Helping others is the way we help ourselves.
- I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
- I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.
- I never knew a child of God being bankrupted by his benevolence. What we keep we may lose, but what we give to Christ we are sure to keep.
- If great joy has come to you, pass it along, and thus do you double it.
- If there be any truer measure of a man than by what he does, it must be by what he gives.Robert SouthCommonly attributed
- If thou art rich, then show the greatness of thy fortune, or what is better, the greatness of thy soul, in the meekness of thy conversation; condescend to men of low estate, support the distressed, and patronize the neglected. Be great.
- If wisdom were conferred with this proviso, that I must keep it to myself and not communicate it to others, I would have none of it.
- If you are really thankful, what do you do? You share.
- If you can’t feed a hundred people, then feed just one.
- If you have two shirts in your closet, one belongs to you and the other to the man with no shirt.
- If you own something you cannot give away, then you don’t own it, it owns you.
- If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
- Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candle at our lamp, without depriving ourselves of any flame.
- In giving, a man receives more than he gives, and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.George MacDonaldSourced
- In my experience, most people deserve generosity. Particularly those determined to believe they don’t.
- In the denial of self is the beginning of all that is truly generous and noble.
- In the same measure in which you wish to receive, you must give. If you wish for a whole heart, give a whole life.
- In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
- Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- It is a low benefit to give me something; it is a high benefit to enable me to do somewhat of myself.