#generosity

The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward. ↗

— Carol Ryrie Brink

#giving #family

The UK public have repeatedly shown enormous generosity to those in need. ↗

— Andrew Mitchell

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Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity. ↗

— Abdus Salam

#colour #determine #distinction #generosity #his

God never estimates what we give from impulse. We are given credit for what we determine in our hearts to give; for the giving that is governed by a fixed determination. The Spirit of God revolutionises our philanthropic instincts. Much of our philanthropy is simply the impulse to save ourselves an uncomfortable feeling. The Spirit of God alters all that. As saints our attitude towards giving is that we give for Jesus Christ’s sake, and from no other motive. ↗

— Oswald Chambers

#giving #guilt #attitude

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. ↗

— George Eliot

#pride #vanity #witty #life

In the end, though, maybe we must all give up trying to pay back the people in this world who sustain our lives. In the end, maybe it's wiser to surrender before the miraculous scope of human generosity and to just keep saying thank you, forever and sincerely, for as long as we have voices. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#compassion #generosity #gratitude #service #love

Among the rich you will never find a really generous man even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egotistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be dull enough to want it. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#greed #wealth #money

OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness. ↗

— Jennifer Aniston

#generosity #humor #i #integrity #kindness

And I don't say that we didn't expect it, but we were pleasantly surprised to see the generosity of their foreign policy; and the generosity of their foreign policy at that moment was expressed through the Marshall Plan. ↗

— Gianni Agnelli

#expressed #foreign #foreign policy #generosity #i

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

#another #beings #best #family #finest