70 Generosity Quotes and Sayings
In this post, you will find amazing generosity sayings.
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Short Generosity Sayings
“Be just before you are generous.” —E. Haywood
“Generosity needs no logrolling.” —Toba Beta
“Where grace happens generosity happens.” —Max Lucado
“Here is more happiness in giving than in receiving.” —Unknown
“Generous gestures yield the most when that isn’t their purpose.” —Malcolm Forbes
“Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.” —Adam Smith
“Abundance in life comes from generosity.” —Debasish Mridha
“Generosity, kindness, honesty, humor – makes us truly rich.” —Waylon Lewis
“To know when to be generous and when to be firm – this is wisdom.” —Elbert Hubbard
“The more generous we are, the more joyous we become.” —William A. Ward
“Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.” —Henry Ward Beecher
“A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.” —Steve Maraboli
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” —Albert Camus
“Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven’t you learned that by now?” —Megan Chance
“Through radical generosity we are awakening people.” —Bill Johnson
“What I gave I have, what I spent I had; and what I left I lost.” —Unknown
“Almost always the most indigent are most generous.” —King Stanislaus
“Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.” —Adam Smith
“Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.” —Albert Camus
“Be generous with your kindness, with your love.” —Akiroq Brost
“Generosity is the flower of justice.” —Nathaniel Hawthorne
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” —Simone Weil
“If truth doesn’t set you free, generosity of spirit will.” —Katerina Stoykova Klemer
“Generosity isn’t an act. It’s a way of life.” —Chip Ingram
“Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.” —Marquis de Vauvenargues
“True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.” —Ellen G. White
Generosity Sayings
“Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” —Khalil Gibran
“There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” —John Holmes
“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
“Minds, nevertheless, are not conquered by arms, but by love and generosity.” —Baruch Spinoza
“Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.” —Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
“The greatest way to learn the genius of generosity is to practice it in real time with others.” —Chip Ingram
“Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.” —Alexander Pope
“Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.” —Mahatma Gandhi
“There is no act of faith more beautiful than the generosity of the very poor.” —Abdullah
“True generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations.” —Suze Orman
“Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.” —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“You are so fortunate, but what are you giving back to make this world a better place for others?” —Catherine Pulsifer
“We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.” —Sebastien Chamfort
“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
“The poor don’t know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.” —Jean-Paul Sartre
“Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.” —Theodore Roosevelt
“Generosity is the most natural outward expression of an inner attitude of compassion.” —Unknown
“God wants us to be generous, gracious, kind-hearted and compassionate.” —Robert Morris
“True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed on us by law.” —Oliver Goldsmith
“Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness.” —Ray Lyman Wilbur
“It wasn’t that he was specially ungenerous but that he put things off to give his generosity a longer and more significant route.” —Saul Bellow
“The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.” —Carol Ryrie Brink
“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.” —Frank A. Clark
“Sometimes, we need only to look at the sunrise to see the generosity of God.” —Jocelyn Soriano
“If you give, it will be given to you. And I have found that generous people are blessed people.” —Greg Laurie
“We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.” —Sebastien Chamfort
“Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.” —Alan Cohen
“Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.” —Kahlil Gibran
“Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed.” —Unknown
“You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson
“A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things that renew humanity.” —Unknown
“Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.” —Margaret Cho
“No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.” —Calvin Coolidge
“Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.” —Jonathan Maberry
Top Ten Generosity Sayings
Here you will find top ten generosity sayings selected by our team
- “Generosity is not in giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is in giving me that which you need more than I do.” —Kahlil Gibran
- “Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else’s life forever.” —Margaret Cho
- “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” —Khalil Gibran
- “Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.” —Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
- “Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.” —Alexander Pope
- “Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.” —Mahatma Gandhi
- “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
- “A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things that renew humanity.” —Unknown
- “God wants us to be generous, gracious, kind-hearted and compassionate.” —Robert Morris
- “There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.” —John Holmes
