| Author |
Quotes |
| Albert Camus | Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. |
| Alexander Solzhenitsyn | Generosity is a two-edged virtue for an artist - it nourishes his imagination but has a fatal effect on his routine. |
| Alistair Cooke | Curiosity . . . endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. |
| Anna Jameson | All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side. |
| Barry Duncan | Men of the noblest dispositions think themselves happiest when others share their happiness with them. |
| Charles Dudley Warner | I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. |
| Emma Goldman | No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure. |
| Euripides | To generous souls every task is noble. |
| Francesco Guicciardini | The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. |
| French Proverb | No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give. |
| Homer | All strangers and beggars are from Zeus, and a gift, though small, is precious. |
| Horace Mann | 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 | 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. |
| Ignatius Loyola | Teach us to give and not to count the cost. |
| Jean de la Bruyere | Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed. |
| John Bunyan | The more he cast away the more he had. |
| Joseph Conrad | The sea--this truth must be confessed-- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness--has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. |
| Joseph Joubert | Be charitable and indulgent to everyone but thyself. |
| Junius | How much easier is it to be generous than just. |
| Kahlil Gibran | 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 |
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