Dalai Lama Quotes, Compassion Quotes, Generosity Quotes

We are all, by nature, clearly oriented toward the basic human values of love and compassion. We all prefer the love of others to their hatred. We all prefer others’ generosity to meanness. And who is there among us who does not prefer tolerance, respect and forgiveness of our failings to bigotry, disrespect, and resentment?

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It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

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GENEROUS, adj. Originally this word meant noble by birth and was rightly applied to a great multitude of persons. It now means noble by nature and is taking a bit of a rest.

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The trick is, when there is nothing to do, do nothing.

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

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If principles can become dated, they're not principles.

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If a thief helps a poor man out of the spoils of his thieving, we must not call that charity.

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You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.

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Good profits simply are not inconsistent with good behavior.

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I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that.

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Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

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You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

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The gift derives its value from the rank of the giver.

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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.

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Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.

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DEPENDENT, adj. Reliant upon another's generosity for the support which you are not in a position to exact from his fears.

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Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

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Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so.

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Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

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These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.

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