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Generosity Quotes


"We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential."


"If giving hurts, then receiving will likely hurt, and you must again ask yourself why you feel or think the way you do."


"Finding the good in others is mutually rewarding for both you and the fortunate recipient of your kind words. Don't you love being around people who make you feel great about yourself? Don't you want to do business with people who make you feel valued and important? Wouldn't you rather work with people who appreciate and respect you? Of course you would! Now go out and do that for others! When you become a generous good-finder you will infuse positive energy, optimism, and good will into their lives, as well as your own."


"He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later."


"Be generous with your life - love deeply, honestly, and without reservation."



"The most reliable method for acquiring wealth is through giving."



"A son says to his Mother: "Mother, today I fought with my friend."His Mother says: "Why did you fight with your friend?""Because he demanded something of me, and I would not give it to him.""Why did you not give it to him?""Because it was mine.""My son, you now have possessions, but you do not have your friend. Which would you rather have?""My friend.""Then give freely, trusting that you will also be given what you need."


"Life is a gracious gift."



"If you have two shirts, sell one and with the money buy a flower'."


"Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."


"Recognise how much you have to give."


"How could a soulmate not hear the heart beats, not smell the tears of a lover, however far he is from her?"


"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.They give that they may live, for to withhold is to perish."


"You can overspend money but you never can over spend love, so spend it without any thought."



"The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it."


"Give freely to the world these gifts of love and compassion. Do not concern yourself with how much you receive in return, just know in your heart it will be returned."


"Trees generously share their fruit. Bees generously share their honey. Flowers generously share their perfume. Do likewise."


"Never accept the situation where you have the light but sufficient only for yourself! You must have an abundant light so that you may give to others!"


"The more you get, the more you get to give."


"To preserve what you have, to keep your relationships alive and glowing, give generously - give of your time, you assets, your attention, your help, and your love. Give of yourself."


"When you GIVE under "compulsion or "Grudgingly you are giving under the LAW of giving and NOT the GRACE given for giving."


"We do not have much but we give more."


"Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think."


"When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you."


"Give with a free hand, but give only of your own."


"You can never deplete your love by giving it away. Why not give yourself to love?"


"Christmas is about giving from the heart more than giving from the store."


"My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm."


"Always err on the side of generosity."


"To give to others is but sowing seed for ourselves."


"He who accumulates has little. He who gives away has much."


"Be generous when you are giving your love."


"Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room."


"I believe this; "When you have a needy person in your neighbourhood, it's an opportunity for you to become a wealthy and healthy person!" Giving time is blessing time!"


"There is enough dough in the world to make bread for us all to eat together."



"It is our duty as believers to bring joy and fortune to the less privileged among us."


"You were not just blessed for yourself,your were blessed to be a blessing toothers."


"Our gifts are very pleasant to Him. He loves to see us lay our time, our talents, our substance on the altar not for the value of what we give, but for the sake of the motive from which the gift springs."


"I let giving fill me with joy."


"You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She never let people forget what she had done for them - and, that way she missed love."


"Giving does not only preceed receiving, it is the reason for it. It is in giving that we receive."


"Give generously."


"Kindness is going out of your way to perform favors regarded as wonderful by the recipient."


"Giving is the only way to receive more."



"There is as much greatness of mind in acknowledging a good turn, as in doing it."



"Serve the Lord with what you have - your substance, strength, knowledge, and ability."


"Generosity is the vanity of giving."
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