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Generosity Quotes
"You pray in your distress and in your need; would that you might also pray in the fullness of your joy and in your days of abundance."
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"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."
156
"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."
155
"Never mistake activity for achievement."
72
"The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value."
64
"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."
56
"The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own."
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"Generosity is a strength, not a weakness."
54
"Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich."
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"You may possibly become rich by just caring about yourself and what you want to gain from your profession and your life but you cannot possibly enrich the lives of everyone you meet that way."
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"The only gift is a portion of thyself."
51
"When you begin to serve people, God begins to serve you."
51
"The more you care for others, while denying yourself, the more pleasure life supplies you."
49
"Giving is an act of generosity. Giving is sowing a seed. The seed will produce great harvest of fruits."
48
"We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest."
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"Always give but never expect. Giving is happiness, disappointment is sadness."
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"The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?"
45
"I believe in giving back very strongly."
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"The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking."
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"Those who give of themselves rarely regret it."
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"The more you give the less your poor."
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"It's a bet " the more you Give, the more you will Get."
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"Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity."
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"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out."
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"By simple mathematics giving is key to the world you seek to live in. If I take I alone gain. If I give or share then two at least are enriched."
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"Generosity has little to do with giving gifts, and everything to do with giving space to others to be who they are."
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"It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept."
40
"Nor is he liberal who gives with pain; for he would prefer the wealth to the noble act, and this is not characteristic of a liberal man. But no more will the liberal man take from wrong sources; for such taking is not characteristic of the man who sets no store by wealth."
40
"Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining."
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"The opportunity is often lost by deliberating."
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"The sons of God are different because they are givers, just like their Heavenly father."
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"The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world."
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"True giving lies not in receiving but in giving."
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"Do not, on a rainy day, ask your child what he feels like doing, because I assure you that what he feels like doing, you won't feel like watching."
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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."
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"The best way to become poor is to give nothing."
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"Giving, goodness and generosity expresses love."
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"You are a gift to life. Share your bounty."
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"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."
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"You often say ; I would give , but only to the deserving, The trees in your orchard say not so , nor the flocks in your pasture.Surely he who is worthy to receive his days and nights is worthy of all else from you.And he who has deserved to drink from the ocean of life deserves to fill his cup from your little stream. See first that you yourself deserve to be a giver , and an instrument of giving.For in truth it is life that gives unto life-while you , who deem yourself a giver , is but a witness."
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"For is there any practice less selfish, any labor less alienated, any time less wasted, than preparing something delicious and nourishing for people you love?"
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"The awareness that 'money will get spent' must never be kept; whatever gets spent at whatever time is correct. That's why it was told to spend money, so that they can be free from greed and they can give it again and again."
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