Top 91 Your Generosity Quotes
#1. You can express your generosity in ways that are virtually limitless. This was what I wanted to convey in 'Giving 2.0' - that whether you have $10 or $10 million to give, if you identify the right opportunities and make the most of your resources, your impact can be tremendous.
Laura Arrillaga-Andreessen
#2. If you listen closely to the voices of our veterans, you understand that yes, they all returned from war changed, but what never changed is this: They never forgot your generosity. They never forgot the power of opportunity. They never forgot the American dream.
Michael Mullen
#3. Good heavens, man, give them more than that! If you pay everyone what they deserve, would anyone ever escape a whipping? Treat them with honor and dignity.
The less they deserve, the more your generosity is worth. Lead them inside.
William Shakespeare
#5. I wanted to send my deepest gratitude to all the ladies here on Goodreads who have given my books a chance! Your time and support mean the world to me.
Thank you to everyone who has read and reviewed them!
You've blown me away with your generosity.
xoxo,
Adele
Adele Hart
#6. Risk everything, even your name and reputation. Don't risk your generosity, as it will bring back you name and reputation one day
Keerthi Singhe
#7. The Church needs your faith, your idealism, and your generosity, so that she can always be young in Spirit.
Pope Benedict XVI
#8. Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.
Timothy Keller
#9. The only things standing between you and the compassionate, wise, and creative person you want to be are matters of choice. Your choice. No one can occupy your generosity except you.
Gary Zukav
#10. Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.
Fulton J. Sheen
#11. This is for you,' he (the Alchemist) said, holding one of the parts (of gold) out to the monk. 'It's for your generosity to the pilgrims.'
'But this payment goes well beyond my generosity,' the monk responded.
'Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time.
Paulo Coelho
#12. Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don't be afraid to aim high.
Pope Francis
#13. This is for you," he said, holding one of the parts out to the monk. "It's for your generosity to the pilgrims." "But this payment goes well beyond my generosity," the monk responded. "Don't say that again. Life might be listening, and give you less the next time." The
Paulo Coelho
#14. The measure of your success will be the measure of your generosity.
Pope John Paul II
#15. Your generosity is cosmetic if you don't fully comprehend that the power to give is positively correlated with a concomitant power to deny, and both of these are the privileges of those who live in abundance, and I don't mean money.
Ellen Miller
#16. Your defining voice, your generosity, your grace, and when you allow His Spirit to live freely in you, then, and only then, will you have the energy and wisdom to live the Christian life well. It is His work, and He will kindly carry your load.
Sally Clarkson
#17. Your generosity is more important than your perfection.
Seth Godin
#18. It's as if your money, by conceit inexhaustible, isn't real, so your generosity isn't real, either.
Lionel Shriver
#19. The difference between being nice and being a doormat depends on whether you're choosing the time of your generosity or someone else is.
John Mulhall
#20. It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that
Rasheed Ogunlaru
#21. If you choose to take your compass from power, in the end you find only despair. But if you look around the world you can see and touch - the everyday world that is too easily dismissed as everyday - you see largeness, generosity, hope, change for the better. It's always small, but it's real.
Richard Flanagan
#22. Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#23. Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
Samuel Johnson
#24. While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.
Andy Stanley
#25. Sometimes what looks like generosity can be control.You think you're being swept up in this big romance, but really it's all about separating you from your own life.
Lilah Pace
#26. Obviously, you would give your life for your children, or give them the last biscuit on the plate. But to me, the trick in life is to take that sense of generosity between kin, make it apply to the extended family and to your neighbour, your village and beyond.
Tom Stoppard
#27. It's rare to find a consistently creative or insightful person who is also an angry person. They can't occupy the same space, and if your anger moves in, generosity and creativity often move out. It's difficult to use revenge or animus to fuel great work.
Seth Godin
#28. Catherine Avril Morris: Thank you for sharing your life and your beautiful baby boy, August John, with me. His life was short but his impact on mine is everlasting. Lady, you amaze me with your strength and generosity of spirit.
Katie Graykowski
#29. Soften, to connect with your heart and engender a basic attitude of generosity and compassion toward yourself, the archetypal coward.
Pema Chodron
#30. To be sure your life will be full and abundant, you must plan your life.
Spencer W. Kimball
#31. Occasionally problems will occur. When it happens to your customers, fix the problem fast. Make it your speed and generosity that gets remembered, not the problem.
Ron Kaufman
#32. The key word of the dedicated Christian should be 'give.' Charitable contributions speak eloquently of your unselfish Christian generosity.
Billy Graham
#33. Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen
Martin Luther
#34. Make space in your life for the things that matter, for family and friends, love and generosity, fun and joy. Without this, you will burn out in mid-career and wonder where your life went.
Jonathan Sacks
#35. Give. Give generously, abundantly, and sacrificially. Give not because your stuff is bad. Give because your heart has been captured by a Savior who has produced in you overflowing joy, welling up in rich generosity.
David Platt
#36. But let me offer a word of caution. If you choose to give from your heart, be careful. The most incredible feeling might just overwhelm you. And if you continue in this behavior, that feeling may become permanent.
Steve Goodier
#37. God doesn't want your careful virtue, He wants your reckless generosity.
Francis Spufford
#38. Anything you do from the soulful self will help lighten the burdens of the world. Anything. You have no idea what the smallest word, the tiniest generosity, can cause to be set in motion ... Mend the part of the world that is within your reach.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#39. If you want to call attention to your good deed then it isn't a good deed, it's a self-serving one. Why? Not only have you patted yourself on the back but you're fishing for others to do the same.
Donna Lynn Hope
#40. Great innovations, powerful interactions and real art are often produced by someone in a state of wonder. Looking around with stars in your eyes and amazement at the tools that are available to you can inspire generosity and creativity and connection
Seth Godin
#41. I have noticed that most times, the least that you give out is the best that someone really needs. So, don't always wait till you have something big to give before you do so! Someone's "big" is your "little"!
Israelmore Ayivor
#43. The rule for J.O.Y is Jesus, Others and You. You can't have a perfect joy if all you think about is about how to groom your life!
Israelmore Ayivor
#44. 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
#45. I wish you the Love of friends and family...And Peace within your heart.
I wish you the Beauty of nature.
I wish you Generosity so you may share...All good things that come to you.
I wish you Happiness and Joy.
Unknown
#46. I see you had no taste for the wine I sent you."
"Such sudden generosity seemed somewhat suspect."
"I can have your head off anytime I want. Why should I need to poison you?"
"Death by poison can seem natural. Harder to claim that my head simply fell off.
George R R Martin
#47. Giving out of your surplus does not make you generous, it makes your selfishness more tolerable! Giving while you are lacking is what pleases the Lord.
William Branks
#48. Being generous often consists of simply extending a hand. That's hard to do if you are grasping tightly to your righteousness, your belief system, your superiority, your assumptions about others, your definition of normal.
Patti Digh
#49. Clark," she said softly, "I wouldn't change you for the world.
You're sweet the way you are. The things that'll make you fail
I'll love always
the living in the past, the lazy days and
nights you have, and all your carelessness and generosity.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#50. Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.
Hesiod
#51. However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more or just expressing it in different ways.
Arjuna Ardagh
#53. The more you give yourself to others, the more joy and peace will flow into your own life.
Thomas Kinkade
#54. I am infinitely more touched by your extreme generosity than with the inhumanity of that gentleman
Voltaire
#55. Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing
Abraham Maslow
#56. Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter.
Gary W. Goldstein
#57. I think of the friendships I've strained, the generosity I've exploited, the bridges I've torched. Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; with them, forgive yourself. There may be hope for me yet.
Anthony Ervin
#58. Generosity is self-existing openness, complete openness. You are no longer subject to cultivating your own scheme or project. And the best way to open yourself up is to make friends with yourself and with others.
Chogyam Trungpa
#59. Either the key to a man's wallet is in his heart, or the key to a man's heart is in his wallet.
So, unless you express your charity, you are locked inside your greed.
Noah Benshea
#60. All you can hold in your cold dead hand is what you have given away.
Joaquin Miller
#61. You have reminded me of how alien I found the concept of acquaintances splitting the bill when I first arrived in your country. I had been raised to favour mutual generosity over mathematical precision in such matters; given time both work equally well to even a score.
Mohsin Hamid
#62. Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.
Theodore Roosevelt
#63. Heavenly Father, loosen my grip on the things of this world. Lead me in the dance of spontaneous, cheerful giving, and let that generosity remind me always of your grace toward me, which I in no way deserve. In your Son's name I pray, amen.
Max Lucado
#64. It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.
Alan Bleasdale
#65. 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
#66. Bottom Line: It's better to give before you receive. And never keep score. If your interactions are ruled by generosity, your rewards will follow suit.
Keith Ferrazzi
#67. When you begin to overlook the routine act of kindness given by a generous & caring soul, you unwittingly halt your blessings
Bernard Kelvin Clive
#68. A lack of generosity refuses to acknowledge that your assets are not really yours, but God's.
Timothy Keller
#69. If I've learned anything from my past and my present, it's the power of fear. You can give your subjects all the generosity in the world, and still they will demand more. But those who are afraid don't fight back. I know this well enough.
Marie Lu
#70. In the School of Life events, situations, and the people you have attracted to be part of your personal experiences are synchronized perfectly in order to teach you the lessons that need to be learned. They show you exactly what is needed to be successful in your Life.
Jacqueline Ripstein
#71. Begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the essence of resourcefulness ; that you can deal with whatever is available around you and not feel poverty stricken.
Chogyam Trungpa
#72. Be generous. Give to those you love; give to those who love you, give to the fortunate, give to the unfortunate - yes, give especially to those you don't want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have.
W. Clement Stone
#73. Cooking for people is an enormously significant expression of generosity and soulfulness, and entertaining is a way to be both generous and creative. You're sharing your life with people. Of course, it's also an expression of your own need for approval and applause. Nothing wrong with that.
Ted Allen
#74. If you spend too much time watching and fantasizing others while they achieve their dreams you may well miss your own.
Randall Wright
#75. As you can see, I keep my word," I call to the rest of the crowd. "Do not take advantage of my generosity, and I will not take advantage of your weakness.
Marie Lu
#76. Ravana all your wealth is wasted, what's the use of being rich if you won't spend your gold to do good for other people?
William Buck
#77. You give but little when you give of your possessions.
It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Kahlil Gibran
#78. You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally. No restrictions, no hang-ups, no stupid rules, no formalities, no forbidden fruit - just everyone getting and giving as much as he and she can.
Ray Charles
#79. Geffrey Davis interrogates masculinity- as brother, son, father, lover-to examine the sources of love's enduring and failed aspects ... I admire Davis' emotional vocabulary, his attentive generosity and tenderness. Keep your eye on this gifted newcomer.
Robin Becker
#80. The success I have achieved in bodybuilding, motion pictures, and business would not have been possible without the generosity of the American people and the freedom here to pursue your dreams.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#84. If you turn your life over to the Lord he can do so much more with it than we can.
Ezra Taft Benson
#85. Listen carefully to what I am saying - and be wary of the shrewd advice that tells you how to get ahead in the world on your own. Giving, not getting, is the way. Generosity begets generosity. Stinginess impoverishes. NEVER WITHOUT A STORY
Eugene H. Peterson
#86. Keep the change, Gin," McCallister said in a smarmy, mocking voice. "Consider it an early Christmas present."
"Aw," I drawled. "A whopping thirteen cents. You're too kind, Jonah. Why, you'd put Ebezener Scrooge to shame with your bighearted generosity.
Jennifer Estep
#87. I understand that you belittle all sentiments of generosity and kindness, but I do not, and I can convince your most doughty warrior that these characteristics are not incompatible with an ability to fight.
Edgar Rice Burroughs
#88. Deep rooted envy is the main cause why people put you down, blame, shame, misjudge, maltreat and malign you; abusing your goodness and generosity. from the book, Odyssey of a Heart, Home of a Soul
Angelica Hopes
#89. Doubtless any horoscope seems "true" if it tells that you are highly attractive to the opposite sex and your worst fault is generosity.
George Orwell
#90. For to be overmindful of your debt is to doubt his generosity who has the free-hearted earth for mother, and God for father.
Kahlil Gibran
#91. Refraining from stealing: care with material goods. Undertake for one week to act on every single thought of generosity that arises spontaneously in your heart.
Jack Kornfield
