Abraham Lincoln
“With malice toward none; with charity for all.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The only gift is a portion of thyself."
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R. E. Phillips
“You only keep what you give away.”
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Vauvenargues
“Generosity gives assistance, rather than advice.”
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Samuel Johnson
“He who waits to do a great deal of good at once, will never do anything.”
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Author Unknown
“You can give without loving, but you can't love without giving.”
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Winston Churchill
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give."
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Author Unknown
“First, give yourself to God. You may be sure he'll look after what is his.”
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Albert Camus
"Real generosity toward the future consists in giving all to what is present."
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Kahlil Gibran
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
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John D. Rockefeller Jr.
"Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege."
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Winston Churchill
"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
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Author Unknown
“He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.”
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Mother Teresa
“If you can't feed a hundred people, then just feed one."
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Dale Evans
“Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas.”
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Author Unknown
“The millionaires in eternity are the givers in time.”
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Ghandi
"The best way to find yourself, is to lose yourself in the service of others."
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Author Unknown
The smallest good deed is worth a thousand grand intentions
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Frank Howard Clark
“Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.”
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Friedrich Nietzsche
"He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either."
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Author Unknown
“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.”
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Bob Hope
“If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.”
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Nelson Henderson
"The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
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Albert Einstein
"The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving."
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Ashleigh Brilliant
"Not being able to do everything is no excuse for not doing everything you can."
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Buddha
“Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.”
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George H. W. Bush
I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity; in important things, diversity; in all things, generosity.
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Kahlil Gibran
“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."
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William Blake
“You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them."
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Kahlil Gibran
“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.”
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Albert Pike
“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal."
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Eleanor Roosevelt
"Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give."
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Seneca
"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."
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2 Corinthians 9:7
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.
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Proverbs 19:17
“He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.”
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is one of the most beautiful compensations of this life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.”
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Author Unknown
“You have never really lived until you've done something for somebody who can never repay you.”
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Calvin Coolidge
"No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave."
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John Bunyon
"You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you."
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Audrey Hepburn
"You will discover that you have two hands. One is for helping yourself and the other is for helping others."
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Seneca
"We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers."
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Ray Lyman Wilbur
"Unless we think of others and do something for them, we miss one of the greatest sources of happiness."
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Orison Swett Marden
"We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest."
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Jean Jacques Rousseau
“When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.”
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Audrey Hepburn
"You will discover that you have two hands. One is for helping yourself and the other is for helping others."
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Helen Keller
"Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain."
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Horace Mann
“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.”
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John Wesley
"Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can.”
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Larry Scherwitz
"Listen with regard when others talk. Give your time and energy to others; let others have their own way; do things for reasons other than furthering your own needs."
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Acts 20: 35
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
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Og Mandino
"Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself."
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Etienne de Grellet
"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
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Author Unknown
"I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again."
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Susan Sarandon
“So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.”
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Norman Vincent Peale
"When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor."
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Norman Vincent Peale
"When you become detached mentally from yourself and concentrate on helping other people with their difficulties, you will be able to cope with your own more effectively. Somehow, the act of self-giving is a personal power-releasing factor."
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Jeffrey R. Holland
…The word generosity has the same derivation as the word genealogy, both coming from the Latin genus, meaning of the same birth or kind, the same family or gender. We will always find it easier to be generous when we remember that this person being favored is truly one of our own.”
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