Quotes on Generosity
You can't always be sure when you try to help somebody that you are really helping. But I'd rather help somebody who didn't need it than not help somebody who did need it.
James Pickering
If you own something you cannot give away, then you don’t own it, it owns you.
Albert Schweitzer
Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
Albert Camus
It is another’s fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.
Seneca
Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to.
Richard Dawkins
[G]enerous people take care of their own needs first. In fact, doing so is a moral necessity. The world needs you at your best.
Scott Adams
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One of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
Andrew Carnegie
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