True Generosity Quotes:

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

topic: Death, Fear, Pride, Liberality, Generosity And Giving

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.

- Khalil Gibran

topic: Work, Generosity, Giving, Joy Of Giving, Generosity And Giving

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

- Albert Camus

topic: Life, Gratitude, Real, Inspirational Future, Charity And Generosity

True generosity consists precisely in fighting to destroy the causes which nourish false charity. False charity constrains the fearful and subdued, the "rejects of life," to extend their trembling hands. True generosity lies in striving so that these hands--whether of individuals or entire peoples--need be extended less and less in supplication, so that more and more they become human hands which work and, working, transform the world.

- Paulo Freire

topic: Lying, Fighting, Hands, Charity And Generosity, Pedagogy Of The Oppressed

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

topic: Inspirational, Insperational, Giving, Kindness Generosity, Give It Your All

True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

- Ellen G. White

topic: Generosity, Riches, Prosperity, True Generosity

True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.

- Suze Orman

source: "The 8 Qualities of a Successful Life" by Suze Orman, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 7, 2013.

topic: Offering, Expectations, Generosity, No Strings Attached, Valuable Possessions

Rings and other jewels are not gifts, but apologies for gifts. The only gift is a portion of thyself.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: "Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson".

topic: Apology, Jewels, Portions, True Generosity, True Gifts

The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.

- Nelson Henderson

source: "Under Whose Shade". Book by Wesley Henderson, 1982.

topic: Graduation, Tree, Shade, Meaning Life, Arbor Day

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

- Jose Marti

source: "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Exercise, True Generosity

True delicacy, as true generosity, is more wounded by an offence from itself--if I may be allowed the expression--than to itself.

- Sir Fulke Greville

topic: Expression, Generosity, Delicacy, True Generosity

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

- Oliver Goldsmith

source: Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham”, p.165

topic: Law, Generosity, Sovereign, True Generosity

Love and nonattachment are the basis of true generosity.

- Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

topic: Generosity, Bases, True Generosity

There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others.

- Nelson Mandela

topic: True Friend, People, Generosity, Appearing, Befriending

True generosity must benefit both parties. No woman can control her destiny if she doesn't give to herself as much as she gives of herself.

- Suze Orman

topic: Party, Destiny, Giving, True Generosity

The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself.

- Albert Camus

source: Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.65, Vintage

topic: Love, Selfish, Vanity, True Generosity

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.

- Suze Orman

topic: Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom, Wise Women, Balance And Harmony

True generosity means accepting ingratitude.

- Coco Chanel

topic: True Generosity