generosity

GENEROSITY

Freely giving more money, help, and kindness than is expected.

All heart, alms-giving, altruism, beneficence, benevolence, bounteousness, bounty, charitableness, charity, free giving, goodness, heart, high-mindedness, hospitality, kindness, largesse, liberality, magnanimity, munificence, nobleness, openhandedness, philanthropy, profusion, readiness, unselfishness...

From The25Virtues Survey:

If a person asks for your coat give him your shirt too.

Sharing your good fortune with others who are less fortunate. Going above and beyond, even when only the minimum is asked. I realize that not everyone is as fortunate as I am and it makes me feel like a good person to share when I recognize that what is needed is something I have an abundance of.

Sharing resources so that everyone has as much as possible.

Giving freely and unconditionally. It makes me feel so good to be able to help others.

Sharing will others who are less fortunate.

Always give what you can to help people.

Generosity is more fulfilling when there is nothing expected in return

Giving more than you receive. Especially in these hard economic times it's important to give to those less fortunate - whether it's money, time, clothes etc. While I can I will give what I can because it's the right thing to do - I'm lucky in what I have and realize others are not.

The things we take for granted must also be given away. I think Americans take things for granted and we may not see it as a big deal but for many people worldwide, they see it as a luxury. I feel that we take things for granted and so must repay it back, whether its community service or donations.

Generosity is being willing to give to others- mind, soul, money, patience, love, or whatever I see their need being.

This helps us connect to others.

The voluntary giving of resources to others in order to bless.

Generosity lets me live with trust in God, share my blessings with others, and receive the blessings of others.

Monetarily, spiritually, and emotionally: Be willing to offer a helping hand, a listening ear, and empathy. This is a virtue that is easily seen through if it is not a true reflection of your values.

Giving is its own regard.

To share what I can with someone who needs it.

Doing for another without expecting something in return.

Giving of my time, resources and abilities to benefit others' lives. Without this I would be a very selfish person.

To give of the whole of oneself. Importance: its connection is universal and can be felt by all. To give is to receive.

Liberal in giving of all things others may need or want; sharing your abundance and good fortune with those around you spreads the happiness and peace

Quotations:

Generosity is not giving me that which I need more than you do, but it is giving me that which you need more than I do.

Khalil Gibran

Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

Frank Howard Clark

Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.

Albert Camus

The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.

Jean-Paul Sartre

What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

Francois de La Rochefourcauld

You see, antiquated ideas of kindness and generosity are simply bugs that must be programmed out of our world. And these cold, unfeeling machines will show us the way.

Bill Gates

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

William Gladstone

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Alexander Pope

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Francesco Guicciardini

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.

Henry Home

We must give more in order to get more, It is the generous giving of ourselves that produce the generous harvest.

Orison Swett Marden