Top Generosity Quotes
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius
I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda.
Richard V. Allen
One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.
Cyril Cusack
When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.
Randy Neugebauer
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Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
Kahlil Gibran 
81% of people like this quote
To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
Confucius
62% of people like this quote
I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda.
Richard V. Allen
61% of people like this quote
One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.
Cyril Cusack
59% of people like this quote
When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well.
Randy Neugebauer
58% of people like this quote
Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.
Kim Campbell
57% of people like this quote
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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Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Albert Camus
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Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
Jean-Paul Sartre
57% of people like this quote
It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
John Steinbeck
56% of people like this quote
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TacitusFrank Howard ClarkJennifer GranholmJessica LangeOmar BongoRoger MooreSteven CojocaruAdam SmithJacques Yves CousteauHorace MannJon PorterKim CampbellRichard DawkinsMichael ZaslowRichard V. Allen
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