Francois de La Rochefoucauld Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspirational, Funny, Birthday

• What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, Generosity, Giving

• What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Exercise, Vanity, Generosity

• Many people despise wealth, but few know how to give it away.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, People, Giving

• Old men delight in giving good advice as a consolation for the fact that they can no longer set bad examples.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Giving, Advice

  "The Moral Maxims and Reflections". Book by François de La Rochefoucauld. Maxim 93, 1678.

• When fortune surprises us by giving us some great office without having gradually led us to expect it, or without having raised our hopes, it is well nigh impossible to occupy it well, and to appear worthy to fill it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Hope, Giving, Expectations

• We give nothing so freely as advice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Advice

• Those who give too much attention to trifling things become generally incapable of great ones.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Greatness, Giving, Attention

• It appears that nature has hid at the bottom of our hearts talents and abilities unknown to us. It is only the passions that have the power of bringing them to light, and sometimes give us views more true and more perfect than art could possibly do.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Art, Philosophy, Passion

• The confidence which we have in ourselves give birth to much of that, which we have in others.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Confidence, Self Esteem, Giving

• Novelty is to love like bloom to fruit; it gives a luster which is easily effaced, but never returns.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Flirting, Giving, Fruit

• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation. [However disappointment can always be removed if we remember it could have turned out worse.]

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Gratitude, Disappointment, Giving

• We give advice, we do not inspire conduct.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inspiration, Giving, Advice

• There is a form of eminence which does not depend on fate; it is an air which sets us apart and seems to prtend great things; it is the value which we unconsciously attach to ourselves; it is the quality which wins us deference of others; more than birth, position, or ability, it gives us ascendance.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Life, Success, Fate

• Generosity is the vanity of giving.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Vanity, Generosity, Giving

• We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Wisdom, Giving, Advice

• What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Jealousy, Pain, Cutting

• Never give anyone the advice to buy or sell shares, because the most benevolent price of advice can turn out badly.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Business, Giving, Advice

• Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Giving, Advice

• Passion often makes fools of the wisest men and gives the silliest wisdom.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Wisest Man

• Old people love to give good advice; it compensates them for their inability to set a bad example.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Inability To Love, Giving, People

• Flattery is a kind of bad money, to which our vanity gives us currency.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Money, Vanity, Giving

• The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  People, Giving, Calm

  "Maxims". Book by Francois de La Rochefoucauld, No. 18, 1665.

• The passions do very often give birth to others of a nature most contrary to their own. Thus avarice sometimes brings forth prodigality, and prodigality avarice; a man's resolution is very often the effect of levity, and his boldness that of cowardice and fear.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Passion, Men, Giving

• The applause we give those who are new to society often proceeds from a secret envying of those already established.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Giving, Envy, Secret

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