A Quote by Bret Stephens

Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy.

Bret Stephens

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Bret Stephens
American - Journalist
Born: November 21, 1973

Generosity is not limited to the giving of material things. We can be generous with our kindness and receptivity. Generosity can mean the simple giving of a smile or extending ourselves to really listen to a friend. Paradoxically, even being willing to receive the generosity of others can be a form of generosity.

Gil Fronsdal

Generosity, generosity, generosity, must be the beginning and ending of our life

Cornelia Connelly

Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for us . . . Certainly it is from experiencing this generosity of God and the generosity of those in our life that we learn gratitude and to be generous to others.

Desmond Tutu

Allah's Generosity is connected to gratitude, and gratitude is linked to increase in His generosity. The generosity of Allah will not stop increasing unless the gratitude of the servant ceases

Ali ibn Abi Talib

Giving material goods is one form of generosity, but one can extend an attitude of generosity into all one's behavior. Being kind, attentive, and honest in dealing with others, offering praise where it is due, giving comfort and advice where they are needed, and simply sharing one's time with someone - all these are forms of generosity, and they do not require any particular level of material wealth.

Dalai Lama

The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of letting go. Being able to let go, to give up, to renounce, and to give generously all spring from the same source, and when we practice generosity ... we open up these qualities within ourselves.

Sharon Salzberg

As counterintuitive as it seems, generosity begins wherever you are. It is important to make generosity a priority.

Andy Stanley

I truly believe that generosity begets generosity. You give before you receive.

Josh Garrels

Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.

Timothy Keller

We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

John Stott

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

It takes great generosity to accept generosity.

Merle Shain

Only by realizing what selfishness and lack of generosity really are can the delicious fragrance of true love and effective generosity, which is not of the mind, burst forth in our hearts.

Samael Aun Weor

He who gives only what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self-sacrifice.

Henry Taylor

Cooking is, to me, the perfect fusion of generosity and selfishness, indeed the resolution of generosity and selfishness, the answer to my torn nature.