Generosity Quotes

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Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker. (Percy Bysshe Shelley)[][]
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. (Albert Camus)[][]
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. (Nelson Henderson)[][]
What I gave, I have; what I spent, I had; what I kept, I lost. (Old Epitaph)[][]
What will you put in the stocking of the Baby Jesus? screenwriter of The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David's Niven. (Leonardo Bercovici)[][]
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. (W.h. Auden)[][]
The more he cast away the more he had. (John Bunyan)[][]
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. (Kahlil Gibran)[][]
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. (Homer)[][]
Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself. (Joseph Joubert)[][]
Gifts are hooks. (Martial)[][]
We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap. (Mignon Mclaughlin)[][]
Teach us to give and not to count the cost. (Ignatius Loyola)[][]
The only gift is a portion of thyself. (Ralph Walso Emerson)[][]
Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others. (Barbara Bush)[][]
Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas. (Dale Evans)[][]
Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege. (John D. Rockefeller Jr.)[][]
Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well. Unless a character possesses this talent there is no moment more annihilating to ease than that in which a present is received and given. (Pamela Glenconner)[][]
Money is like manure; it's not worth a thing unless it's spread around encouraging young things to grow. (Thornton Wilder)[][]
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give. (Walt Whitman)[][]
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