"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need. "
— Kahlil Gibrán

"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

"Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think."
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"...Because when you love something, you want to do it all the time, even if no one is paying you for it. At least that's how I felt about drawing."
— Meg Cabot (All American Girl 1)

"Of the various kinds of intelligence, generosity is the first.

Gienka Home from the Ball Bearing Plant (1943) "
— John Surowiecki

""When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losing and making the other person win and have a happy face. Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.""
— Sri S. Satchidananda

"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

"With gentleness,
Overcome anger.
With generosity,
Overcome meanness.
With truth,
Overcome delusion."
— The Dhammapada

""It has always seemed strange to me," said Doc. "The things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.""
— John Steinbeck (Cannery Row)

"We must train ourselves in courage and generosity."
— roger caillois Edge of Surrealism p. 231

"Give until you have nothing left to give"
— Jessica Letchford

"When it comes to giving, some people stop at nothing."
— Vernon McLellan

"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