Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
George EliotTags: vanity witty pride generosity
No, it is not a commonplace, sir! If up to now, for example, I have been told to 'love my neighbor,' and I did love him, what came of it?. . . What came of it was that I tore my caftan in two, shared it with my neighbor, and we were both left half naked, in accordance with the Russian proverb which says: If you chase several hares at once, you won't overtake any one of them. But science says: Love yourself before all, because everything in the world is based on self-interest. If you love only yourself, you will set your affairs up properly, and your caftan will also remain in one piece. And economic truth adds that the more properly arranged personal affairs and, so to speak, whole caftans there are in society, the firmer its foundations are and the better arranged its common cause. It follows that by acquiring for everyone, as it were, and working so that my neighbor will have something more than a torn caftan, not from private, isolated generosities now, but as a result of universal prosperity.
Fyodor DostoevskyTags: science generosity prosperity
If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.
Katerina Stoykova KlemerTags: truth freedom relationships forgiveness emotion spirituality generosity
Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?
Samuel JohnsonTags: jealousy tea wine generosity small-mindedness reckoning
Generosity is, by definition, disinterested.” (p.157)
Piero FerrucciTags: generosity
I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.
Charles DickensTags: contentment work ambition service usefulness generosity diligence
A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.
Steve MaraboliTags: life success kindness compassion blessings action generosity giving helping-others
Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.
Charles Alexander EastmanTags: happiness children life-lessons generosity
Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!
Honoré de BalzacTags: love girls women self-sacrifice suffering purity generosity
(I)f we are going to be kind, let it be out of simple generosity, not because we fear guilt or retribution.
J.M. CoetzeeTags: kindness guilt generosity retribution
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