Stinginess Quotes

• Trust allows you to give. Giving is abundant. As you give so it shall be given to you. If you give with judgment, limitation and stinginess, that is what you will create in your life - judgment, limitation, and stinginess.

  Gary Zukav

  Giving, Judgment, Given

  Gary Zukav (2014). “The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide”, p.234, Simon and Schuster

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• Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Generosity, Half, Meanness

  Elbert Hubbard Bert Hubbard (1923). "Escritos escogidos de Elbert Hubbard: su acuñación de sabiduría, acuñada a partir de una vida de amor, risas y trabajo".

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• El concepto de que una persona que tiene mucho tiende la mano a alguien que tiene menos, o alguien que no está sufriendo tiende la mano a alguien que sí lo está, es simplemente un rasgo humano que no tiene nada que ver con la celebridad. Me desconcierta la mezquindad de algunas instituciones y de algunas personas. Me desconcierta. No se pueden guardar muchas cosas en el armario.

  Paul Newman

  Herir, Manos, Gente

  "El camino hacia la gloria de Paul Newman". Entrevista con Paul Fischer, www.filmmonthly.com. 1 th Of July de 2002.

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• La cortesía es la única moneda de la que nunca se puede tener demasiado ni ser tacaño.

  John Wanamaker

  Flipping A Coin, Coins, Too Much

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• If beings knew, as I know, the results of sharing gifts, they would not enjoy their gifts without sharing them with others, nor would the taint of stinginess obsess the heart and stay there. even if it were their last and final bit of food, they would not enjoy its use without sharing it, if there were anyone to receive it

  Buda Gautama

  Buddhist, Heart, Finals

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• You don't care what people think. You don't see your beloved's faults, the slight stinginess, the bit of carelessness, the occasional streak of meanness. You don't mind that he is beneath you socially, educationally, financially, and morally--that's the worst, I think, deficient morals. (Saving Fish From Drowning)

  Amy Tan

  Pensamiento, Gente, Mente

  Amy Tan (2012). “Saving Fish From Drowning”, p.15, HarperCollins UK

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• Diligence means to be keen in matters of virtue and justice, but worldly people use diligence to solve their economic difficulties. Frugality means to have little desire for material goods, but worldly people use frugality as a cover for stinginess. Thus do watchwords of enlightened life turn into tools for the private business of small people. What a pity!

  Zicheng Hong

  Mean, People, Justice

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• Allah is al-Kareem, so if He withholds from you it is not on account of stinginess. It is on account of His generosity. He withholds to give.

  Yasmin Mogahed

  Generosity, Giving, Als

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• It is precisely because no one needs soup, fish, meat, salad, cheese, and dessert at one meal that we so badly need to sit down to them from time to time. It was largesse that made us all; we were not created to fast forever... Enter here, therefore, as a sovereign remedy for the narrowness of our minds and the stinginess of our souls.

  Robert Farrar Capon

  Food, Forever, Cooking

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• Nunca se tiene demasiado cielo.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Playa, Cielo, Lanzar una moneda

  Sandra Cisneros (2013). "La casa de la calle Mango", p.50, Vintage.

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• Beware of injustice, for oppression will be darkness on the Day of Resurrection; and beware of stinginess because it doomed those who were before you. It incited them to shed blood and treat the unlawful as lawful.

  Muhammad

  Islamic, Blood, Darkness

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• stinginess seemed instinctive to him. Darwinian even. He hadn't gotten to his current size by sharing.

  Laura Lippman

  Selfishness, Size, Currents

  Laura Lippman (1999). “In big trouble”

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• A runner is a miser, spending the pennies of his energy with great stinginess, constantly wanting to know how much he has spent and how much longer he will be expected to pay. He wants to be broke at precisely the moment he no longer needs his coin.

  John L. Parker Jr.

  Energy, Needs, Coins

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• Nunca se tiene demasiado dinero.

  Jess C Scott

  Playa, Demasiado, Ajo

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• Just as stinginess is blameworthy, so is facility in paying more for things than they are worth...

  Vicente de Paúl

  Wisdom, Faults, Facility

  "Correspondencia Documentos de la Conferencia".

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• Nunca se tiene demasiada mantequilla.

  Julie Powell

  Playa, Demasiado, Ajo

  "Julie & Julia". www.imdb.com. 2009.

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