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
One's performance is often heightened by the brilliance and generosity of other actors.
Cyril Cusack
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
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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What we call generosity is for the most part only the vanity of giving; and we exercise it because we are more fond of that vanity than of the thing we give.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 
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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.
Kahlil Gibran
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The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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The gift that has been given to me says much about our capacity for great compassion and generosity, and I hope it sends an inspiring message to others about the importance of organ donation.
Steven Cojocaru
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At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
Barbara Ehrenreich
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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
Adam Smith
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
Mohandas Gandhi
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Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.
Roger Moore
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Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.
Alistair Cooke
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We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
Mignon McLaughlin
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