Generosity Quotes and Sayings
Quotes about Generosity

You can give without loving,
but you can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.
- Helen Keller

You can't get unless you give.
And you have to give without wanting to get.
- Theodore H. White

No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy,
the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child.
The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
- Emma Goldman

The only gift is a portion of thyself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor.
Do you know your next door neighbor?
- Mother Teresa

 

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.
- Mother Teresa

From what we get, we can make a living:
what we give, however makes a life.
- Arthur Ashe

You can never love without giving.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

No one has ever become poor by giving.
- Anne Frank

Life is unlimited - it expands with the generosity,
compassion, inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The moment you become miserly you are closed
to the basic phenomenon of life: expansion, sharing.
The moment you start clinging to things,
you have missed the target.
Because things are not the target,
you, your innermost being, is the target -
not a beautiful house, but a beautiful you;
not much money, but a rich you;
not many things, but an open being,
available to millions of things.
- Osho

We cannot despair of humanity,
since we ourselves are human beings.
- Albert Einstein

It is one of the most beautiful compensations of life,
that no man can sincerely try
to help another without helping himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Give your time and efforts freely or not at all.
When you are tempted to say,
"Oh, if I have to, I'll skip my golf game
and watch my daughter play soccer," don't do it.
Either generate the heart-felt emotion
to make the free-will gift,
"I'd love to watch your game today, Sandy,"
or the honesty to decline the request gracefully.
Martyrdom doesn't create happiness
for any of the parties involved.
An honest, "No" is preferable to a coerced "Yes."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Life is unlimited.
Your world expands with the generosity, compassion,
inventiveness, and service that you contribute.
Money that is spent or given away returns multiplied.
The more love that is given, the more love returns.
The more a helping hand is given, the more hands
are strengthened and empowered to help.
We can help each other to all be winners.
We can all have food, and jobs, and love, and happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

You Quotes and Sayings

It is the friends you can call up at 4 A.M. that matter.
- Marlene Dietrich

A true friend is someone who
thinks that you are a good egg
even though he knows that
you are slightly cracked.
- Bernard Meltzer

A friend is someone who knows all about you,
and loves you just the same.
- Elbert Hubbard

Simply do your best, and you will avoid
self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
- don Miguel Ruiz

A true friend is one who believes in you
when you have ceased to believe in yourself.
- Anonymous

When it hurts to look back,
and you're scared to look ahead,
you can look beside you
and your best friend will be there.
- Anonymous

If I mayn't tell you what I feel,
what is the use of a friend?
- William Makepeace Thackeray

The magic words for a great family are,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A friend is someone who won't stop
until he finds you and brings you home.
- Fraser Sr. in the movie Due South

If you love something, set it free;
if it comes backs it's yours,
if it doesn't, it never was.
- Richard Bach

Trust yourself, then you will know how to live.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo,
but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you
when the limo breaks down.
- Oprah Winfrey

It is one of the blessings of old friends
that you can afford to be stupid with them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Know the power and the peace of saying,
"I love you just the way you are."
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Choose a friend as thou dost a wife,
till death separate you.
- William Penn

True friends are those who lift you up
when your heart's wings forget how to fly.
- Anonymous

Choose your friends carefully.
Your enemies will choose you.
- Yasser Arafat

Business, you know, may bring money,
but friendship hardly ever does.
- Jane Austen

A friend encourages your dreams and offers advice -
but when you don't follow it,
they still respect and love you.
- Doris Wild Helmering

Your friend is the man who knows all about you,
and still likes you.
- Elbert Hubbard

Throw your dreams into space like a kite,
and you do not know what it will bring back,
a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.
- Anais Nin

Don't make friends who are comfortable to be with.
Make friends who will force you to lever yourself up.
- Thomas J. Watson Sr.

What is a friend? I will tell you ...
it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
- Frank Crane

Your friends love you anyway.
- Dave Barry

A holiday, the day I first named you, "friend."
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Your visions will become clear only
when you can look into your own heart.
Who looks outside, dreams;
who looks inside, awakes.
- Carl Jung

Everyone hears what you say.
Friends listen to what you say.
Best friends listen to what you don't say.
- Anonymous

A new friend is like new wine;
when it has aged you will drink it with pleasure.
- Ecclesiastes 9:10

Fate chooses your relations, you choose your friends.
- Jacques Delille

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.
- Henry David Thoreau

I choose you as my friend, and rejoice.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Tell me whom you live with,
and I will tell you who you are.
- Spanish Proverb

Be careful the friends you choose -
for you will become like them.
- W. Clement Stone

You are my friend when you can guard my failure,
challenge my thought and celebrate my success.
- Anonymous

The best time to make friends is before you need them.
- Ethel Barrymore

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being
to those who are on the road with you,
and accept as something precious
what comes back to you from them.
- Albert Schweitzer

One is taught by experience to put a premium
on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.
- Gail Godwin

An old friend will help you move.
A good friend will help you move a dead body.
- Jim Hayes

Good friends are like stars ...
you don't always see them,
but you know they are always there.
- Anonymous

When you part from your friend, you grieve not;
For that which you love most in him may be
clearer in his absence,
as the mountain to the climber
is clearer from the plain.
- Khalil Gibran

Love means not ever having to say you're sorry.
- Erich Segal

Best friends are the ones who can be the farthest away
but there the fastest when you call.
- Anonymous

You only meet your once in a lifetime friend ...
once in a lifetime.
- Little Rascals

A friend is a present you give yourself.
- Robert Louis Stevenson

My father always used to say that when you die,
if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.
- Lee Iacocca

A true friend never gets in your way
unless you happen to be going down.
- Arnold H. Glasgow

Nine-tenths of the people were created
so you would want to be with the other tenth.
- Horace Walpole

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

Front yards are not made to walk in, but, at most, through,
and you could go in the back way.
- Henry David Thoreau

You can make more friends in two months
by becoming interested in other people
than you can in two years by trying
to get other people interested in you.
- Dale Carnegie

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
- Bill Watterson

Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions.
Small people always do that,
but the really great make you feel that
you, too, can become great.
- Mark Twain

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
- Abraham Lincoln

Friendship is born at that moment
when one person says to another,
"What! You too? I thought I was the only one."
- C. S. Lewis

A true friend is a rock upon whom you can depend.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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