Your Generosity Quotes

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

  John Bunyan

  Motivational, Success, Perseverance

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• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.

  John Wesley

  Life, Motivational, Christmas

  'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

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• Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Humility

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Generosity, Giving, Catholic

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• You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Love, Funny, Women

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• If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

  Bob Hope

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• 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.

  Khalil Gibran

  Work, Generosity, Giving

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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• Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.

  John Wesley

  Christian, Kindness, Mean

  'Rule of Conduct' in 'Letters' (1915)

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• You haven't lived until you've died in California

  Mort Sahl

  Funny, Inspiration, California

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• To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance. To a friend, heart. To a customer, service. To all, charity. To every child, a good example. To you, respect.

  Oren Arnold

  Christmas, Xmas, Children

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• So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

  Helen Keller

  Pain, Long, Generosity

  Helen Keller (2011). “To Live, to Think, to Hope: Inspirational Quotes by Helen Keller”, p.159, Matthew Gordon

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• When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self - giving is a personal power - releasing factor.

  Norman Vincent Peale

  Inspirational, Courage, Power

  Dr. Norman Vincent Peale (2007). “The Positive Principle Today”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• Christmas gift suggestions: To your enemy, forgiveness. To an opponent, tolerance.

  Oren Arnold

  Christmas, Xmas, Tolerance

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• Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.

  Helen Keller

  Pain, Believe, Helping Others

  "We Bereaved". Book by Helen Keller, 1929.

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• In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Thank You, Thanksgiving, Gratitude

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.348, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• 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

  Inspirational, Insperational, Generosity

  "All Men Are Mortal". Book by Simone de Beauvoir, 1946.

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• Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think.

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  Inspirational, Life, Kindness

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works of Henry W. Longfellow”

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• Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Gratitude, Lying

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• You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Motivational, Kindness

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.34, Lulu.com

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• Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

  Frank A. Clark

  Kindness, Real, Nice

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• It takes generosity to discover the whole through others. If you realize you are only a violin, you can open yourself up to the world by playing your role in the concert.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Live Concerts, Generosity, Roles

  Statement by the Minister for Agriculture, Sharon Dijksma, at the opening of the Global Oceans Action Summit for Food Security and Blue Growth, www.government.nl. April 22, 2014.

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• You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• 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

  Death, Fear, Pride

  Horace Mann (1872). “Thoughts Selected from the Writings of Horace Mann ...”, p.211

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• Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.

  Simone Weil

  Kindness, Caring, Generosity

  Letter to Joë Bousquet on April 13, 1942. "Correspondance", published by Editions l'Age d'Homme in Lausanne, p. 18, 1982.

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• You cannot do a kindness too soon.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Karma, Thankful, Appreciation

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