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The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540)

Francesco Guicciardini

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

François de la Rochefoucauld

To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy

Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Robert Louis Stevenson

Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.

Buddha (563 f.Kr.-483 f.Kr.)

Buddha

I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches.

Colin Powell (1937-)

Colin Powell

There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his.

Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)

Eric Hoffer

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one

François de la Rochefoucauld (1613-1680)

François de la Rochefoucauld

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give

O Thou who has given us so much, mercifully grant us one thing more-a grateful heart.

George Herbert (1593-1633)

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

George Santayana (1863-1952)

George Santayana

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity

Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

Jean-Paul Sartre

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.

John Wesley (1703-1791)

John Wesley

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

Margaret Thatcher (1925-)

Margaret Thatcher

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997)

Mother Teresa of Calcutta

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