(272 quotes found)
“The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity”
Jean-Paul Sartre
“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
“Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to money; not caution but courage and a contempt for danger; not a desire for success but a desire to be and to know.”
Natalia Ginzburg
“When we talk about values, I think of rationality in solving problems. That’s something I value. Fairness, kindness, generosity, tolerance. When they talk about values, they’re talking about things like going to church, voting for Bush, being loyal to Jesus, praying. These are not values.”
Bill Maher
“The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The giving of love is an education in itself”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.”
“It always seemed strange to me that 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, aquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and selfinterest are the traits of sucess. And while men admire the quality of the first, they love the produce of the second.”
John Steinbeck
“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.”
“The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God”
John Fitzgerald Kennedy
