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| Frukten vi skördar av generositet är inte alltid uppenbar. | Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540) |
| Jag är övertygad om att majoriteten av människor skulle vara generösa av själviska motiv, om de bara hade möjligheten. | Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900) |
| What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal. | Albert Pike (1809-1891) |
| What we do for ourselves dies with us. What we do for others and the world remains and is immortal. | Albert Pine |
| She's generous to a fault - if it's her own | Arthur 'Bugs' Baer (1896-1975) |
| The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor | Dutch Proverb |
| American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced | Elinor Glyn (1864-1943) |
| A good chief gives, he does not takes | Mohawk proverb |
| There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. | Nathaniel Branden |
| 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 (1796-1859) |
| We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap | Mignon McLaughlin (1915-) |
| Be just before you are generous | Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816) |
| 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) |
| He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| The value of a man resides in what he gives and not in what he is capable of receiving. | Albert Einstein (1879-1955) |
| We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. | Winston Churchill (1874-1965) |
| Generosity consists not the sum given, but the manner in which it is bestowed | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| The generous man enriches himself by giving; the miser hoards himself poor | Dutch 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 (1883-1931) |
| Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. | Konfucius (555 f.Kr.-479 f.Kr.) |
| The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. | Lao-Tse (604 f.Kr.-531 f.Kr.) |
| You are forgiven for your happiness and your successes only if you generously consent to share them. | Albert Camus (1913-1960) |
| One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others. | Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) |
| To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| I can remember way back when a liberal was generous with his own money | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity. | Nathaniel Branden |
| Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| Joy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness | Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-1910) |
| The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident. | Francesco Guicciardini (1483-1540) |
| 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) |
| 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) |
| 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.) |
| I don't want to spend the rest of my life giving speeches. | Colin Powell (1937-) |
| There is sublime thieving in all giving. Someone gives us all he has and we are his. | Eric Hoffer (1902-1983) |
| 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) |
| Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. | Frank A. Clark |
| No one is so generous as he who has nothing to give | French Proverb |
| 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) |
| The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity | Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980) |
| 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) |
| 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-) |
| 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) |
| Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, lead to ruin | Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) |
| Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| 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) |
| Gifts have ribbons, not strings. | Vanna Bonta |
| I can remember way back when a liberal was generous with his own money | Will Rogers (1879-1935) |
| "God's bodkin, man, much better: use every man after his desert, and who shall scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity -- the less they deserve, the more merit is in your bounty? | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |