Welcome to another addition of Wisdom Wednesday. Today’s post is just a preview of tomorrow’s post which also focuses on generosity. Generosity is the art of giving without expecting to receive anything in return. It can involve offering time, money or talents to aid another person or group.
10 Wisdom Wednesday Quotes: Generosity
- “Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.” ― Khalil Gibran
- “Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.” ― Confucius
- “That’s what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.” ― Simone de Beauvoir
- “Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- “For it is in giving that we receive.” ― Francis of Assisi
- “The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others,
the more he has for his own.” ― Lao Tzu - “Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.”—Albert Camus
- “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
- “If you can’t feed a hundred people, then just feed one.”— Mother Teresa
- “To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children…to leave the world a better place…to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.”— Ralph Waldo Emerson
