Generosity
232 quotes: 42 by Keith Craft, 190 from other voices.
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- Purchase not friends by gifts; when thou ceasest to give, such will cease to love.
- Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
- Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
- Success is finding satisfaction in giving a little more than you take.
- Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?”
- Taking pain to remove the pain of others is the true essence of generosity.Abu BakrCommonly attributed
- That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty.
- The athlete who wishes to get strong must make use of the strength he has, and the more he gives the more he will get.
- The degree of loving is measured by the degree of giving.
- The dreariest poverty is that of the heart. Banish this, and we shall all be rich.
- The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
- The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.
- The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.
- The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.
- The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.
- The important thing was to love rather than to be loved.
- The inward pleasure of imparting pleasure--that is the choicest of all.
- The joy of giving lasts longer than the joy of receiving.
- The man who always takes and never gives is not a leader.
- The manner of giving shows the character of the giver, more than the gift itself.
- The minute you learn something, turn around and teach it to others.
- The more we give away, the more is given to us.Wayne DyerCommonly attributed
- The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.Eleanor RooseveltCommonly attributed
- The most precious gift we can offer anyone is our attention. When mindfulness embraces those we love, they will bloom like flowers.
- The pleasure of giving is necessary to true happiness; but the poor may have it.
- The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The work of life is to develop it. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.
- The riches we impart are the only wealth we shall always retain.
- The secret to living is giving.
- The sweetest pleasure is in imparting it.
- The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
- The value of a life is always measured by how much of it is given away.
- The world is big enough to satisfy everyones needs, but will always be too small to satisfy everyones greed
- Then said a rich man, Speak to us of Giving. And he answered: You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
- There can be no greater gift than that of giving one’s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return.
- There is a gift that is almost a blow, and there is a kind word that is munificence; so much is there in the way of doing things.
- There is a sufficiency in the world for man’s need but not for man’s greed.
- There is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.
- There is no use of money equal to that of beneficence; here the enjoyment grows on reflection; and our money is most truly ours when it ceases to be in our possession.
- There never was a person who did anything worth doing that did not receive more than he gave.
- To live in scarcity is to worry about the cost of food; to live in abundance is to worry about who else you can invite for dinner.