giving

Think of giving not as a duty
but as a privilege.

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do,
but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.

Khalil Gibran

   

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

Frank A. Clark

    

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

Elbert Hubbard

    

   

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Albert Camus

   
   

Don't say that you want to give, but go ahead and give!
You'll never catch up with a mere hope.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

   
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing,
more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Alexander Pope

   

You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes
only if you generously consent to share them.

William Blake

   

To the generous mind the heaviest
debt is that of gratitude, when it is
not in our power to repay it.

Benjamin Franklin
  
  
Generosity consists not the sum
given, but the manner in which
it is bestowed.

unattributed

   

Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.

Albert Camus

   

Our generosity never should exceed our abilities.

Cicero

   

There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple
justice in satisfying creditors.  Generosity is the part
of the soul raised above the vulgar.

Oliver Goldsmith

   

   

Generosity is the flower of justice.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

  
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases
out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question
is the generous side and the merciful side.

Anna Brownell Jameson

   

Generosity, when once set going, knows not how to stop; as the more
familiar we are with the lovely form, the more enamored we become of her charms.

Pliny the Younger

   

He who gives what he would as readily throw away gives
without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

Henry Taylor

   

   

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Mignon McLaughlin

    

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition,
which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

François de la Rochefoucauld

    
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
    

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