What’s inside: A dozen quotes about generosity and kindness – including printable bookmarks!
Cultivate some generosity with these quotes
Generosity is a virtue to cultivate.
generosity
noun
- Liberality in giving or willingness to give.
- Kindness or magnanimity.
- Amplitude; abundance.
From the American Heritage Dictionary
The Generosity Quotes
I’ve included some more obscure quotes from literature along with some you may be familiar with. These are great for you to ponder.
Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
― George Eliot, Middlemarch
No one has ever become poor by giving. – Anne Frank
We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers. – Seneca
No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else. – Charles Dickens
It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reality and what they assume themselves to be.
― James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men’s sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary level, but to whom the ordinary level will be high enough after all if it should prove to be a way of usefulness and good service leading to no other. All generous spirits are ambitious, I suppose, but the ambition that calmly trusts itself to such a road, instead of spasmodically trying to fly over it, is of the kind I care for.
― Charles Dickens, Bleak House
He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; for he giveth of his bread to the poor. – Proverbs 22:9
A little Consideration, a little Thought for Others, makes all the difference. – A. A. Milne
To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets. – William Shakespeare
No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted. – Aesop
You can give without loving, but you can never love without giving. – Robert Louis Stevenson
More ways to Ponder these thoughts
Copywork is a way to let these thoughts seep into your brain. Older students can select the sayings that resonate with them to transcribe into their commonplace notebooks. You can print models of the quotes for younger students.
I’ve also included printable bookmarks of some of these generosity quotes, just for fun! Get them below.
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