The true meaning of life is to plant trees,
under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
?Nelson Henderson
No one is so generous as he
who has nothing to give.
?French Proverb
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
I am convinced that the majority of people
would be generous from selfish
motives, if they had the opportunity.
?Charles Dudley Warner
The return we reap from generous
actions is not always evident.
?Francesco Guicciardini
The sea--this truth must be confessed--
has no generosity. No display of manly
qualities-- courage, hardihood, endurance,
faithfulness--has ever been known to touch
its irresponsible consciousness of power.
?Joseph Conrad
The three signs of great men are --
generosity in the design, humanity in
the execution, moderation in success.
?Otto von Bismarck
Curiosity . . . endows the people who
have it with a generosity in argument
and a serenity in cheerful willingness
to let life take the form it will.
?Alistair Cooke
No one has yet fully realized the wealth
of sympathy, kindness and generosity
hidden in the soul of a child. The effort
of every true education should
be to unlock that treasure.
?Emma Goldman
All my experience of the world teaches
me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred,
the safe and just side of a question is
the generous and merciful side.
?Anna Jameson
Generosity is a two-edged virtue for
an artist - it nourishes his imagination
but has a fatal effect on his routine.
?Alexander Solzhenitsyn
I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in
crucial things, unity. . in important things,
diversity. . . in all things, generosity.
?George Bush
Generosity lies less in giving much
than in giving at the right moment.
?Jean De La Bruyère
Men of the noblest dispositions think
themselves happiest when others
share their happiness with them.
?Barry Duncan
To generous souls every task is noble.
?Euripides
How much easier is it to
be generous than just.
?Junius
Liberality consists less in giving a
great deal than in gifts well-timed.
?Jean De La Bruyere
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
What I gave I have, what I spent
I had; and what I left I lost.
?Robert of Doncaste
The poor don't know that their function
in life is to exercise our generosity.
?Jean-Paul Sartre
Is it not odd that the only generous person
I ever knew, who had money to be generous
with, should be a stockbroker.
?Percy Bysshe Shelley
Real generosity toward the future
lies in giving all to the present.
?Albert Camus
