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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."
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"Never mistake activity for achievement."
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"The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."
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"The worth of a gift lies as much in the way it is offered as in its intrinsic value."
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"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."
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"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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"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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"Generosity is a strength, not a weakness."
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"The only gift is a portion of thyself."
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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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"When you begin to serve people, God begins to serve you."
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"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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"The more you care for others, while denying yourself, the more pleasure life supplies you."
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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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"Always give but never expect. Giving is happiness, disappointment is sadness."
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"Giving is an act of generosity. Giving is sowing a seed. The seed will produce great harvest of fruits."
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"The more you give the less your poor."
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"I believe in giving back very strongly."
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"The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?"
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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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"Those who give of themselves rarely regret it."
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"It's a bet " the more you Give, the more you will Get."
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"Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out."
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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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"The United States is not stingy. We are the greatest contributor to international relief efforts in the world."
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"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."
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"The opportunity is often lost by deliberating."
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"Those who give hoping to be rewarded with honor are not giving, they are bargaining."
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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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"It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept."
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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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"The sons of God are different because they are givers, just like their Heavenly father."
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"The only things I truly keep are those things that I give away."
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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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"True giving lies not in receiving but in giving."
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"The best way to become poor is to give nothing."
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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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"We cannot hold a torch to light another's path without brightening our own."
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"You are a gift to life. Share your bounty."
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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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"Giving, goodness and generosity expresses love."
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