Generosity Quotes

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Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. (Ungge)[][]
No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give. (French Proverb)[][]
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)[][]
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. (Charles Dudley Warner)[][]
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. (Francesco Guicciardini)[][]
The sea-this truth must be confessed- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness-has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. (Joseph Conrad)[][]
The three signs of great men are - generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success. (Otto von Bismarck)[][]
Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. (Alistair Cooke)[][]
No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. (Emma Goldman)[][]
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)[][]
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine. (Alexander Solzhenitsyn)[][]
I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity. . in important things, diversity. . . in all things, generosity. (George Bush)[][]
Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment. (Jean De La Bruyère)[][]
Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. (Barry Duncan)[][]
To generous souls every task is noble. (Euripides)[][]
How much easier is it to be generous than just. (Junius)[][]
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed. (Jean De La Bruyere)[][]
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)[][]
What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost. (Robert of Doncaste)[][]
The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity. (Jean-Paul Sartre)[][]
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