Generosity Quotes, Sayings about being Generous

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man – Adam Smith.

Real generosity towards the future lies in giving all to the present – Albert Camus.

The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving – Albert Einstein.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing – Alexander Pope.

Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist – it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine – Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

You will discover that you have two hands. One is for helping yourself and the other is for helping others – Audrey Hepburn.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it – Benjamin Franklin.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity – Charles Dudley Warner.

Every time we love, every time we give, it’s Christmas – Dale Evans.

To know when to be generous and when to be firm — this is wisdom – Elbert Hubbard .

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give – Eleanor Roosevelt.

The giving of love is an education in itself – Eleanor Roosevelt.

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure – Emma Goldman.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident – Francesco Guicciardini.

Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away – Francois de La Rochefoucauld.

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out – Frank A. Clark.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either – Friedrich Nietzsche.

I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity.. in important things, diversity… in all things, generosity – George Washington Bush.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear – Horace Mann.

The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity – Jean-Paul Sartre.

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you – John Bunyon.

Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege – John D. Rockefeller Jr.

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

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.

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own – Lao Tzu.

Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness – Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy.

The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others – Mahatma Gandhi.

Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice – Marquis De Vauvenargues.

We’d all like a reputation for generosity, and we’d all like to buy it cheap – Mignon McLaughlin.

If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one – Mother Teresa.

The three signs of great men are — generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success – Otto von Bismarck.

The only gift is a portion of thyself – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity – Ralph Waldo Emerson.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others – Robert A. Heinlein.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers – Seneca.

That’s what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing – Simone De Beauvoir.

He had a certain frankness and generosity, qualities indeed which turn to a man’s ruin, unless tempered with discretion – Tacitus.

Lavishness is not generosity – Thomas Fuller.

Thoughtfulness for others, generosity, modesty and self-respect are the qualities which make a real gentleman or lady – Thomas Henry Huxley.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give – Walt Whitman.

I can remember way back when a liberal was generous with his own money – Will Rogers.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give – Winston Churchill.

You make a living by what you get. You make a life by what you give – Winston Churchill.

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