Generous Quotes
Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.
The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.
To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.
Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.
Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.
Take heart young people! Christ is calling you and the world awaits you! Remember the Kingdom of God needs your generous and complete dedication.
To plead for the Oppress'd and to defend the Weak seem'd to me a generous undertaking; for tho' it may be secure, 'tis not always Honourable to run over to the strongest party.
Share the wealth. Be generous with your joy. Give away what you most want. Be generous with your insights and delights.
The command to judge not is not a requirement to be blind, but rather a plea to be generous. Jesus does not tell us to cease to be men... but to renounce the presumptuous ambition to be God.
A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
The record of a generous life runs like a vine around the memory of our dead, and every sweet unselfish act is now a perfumed flower.
As my mother once said to me, ‘They’re quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.
Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd, Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest; Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart, Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.
Nothing is more injurious to the character and to the intellect than the suppression of a generous emotion.
I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.
Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.
Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.
Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
Scatter good will and love and prayers all around, everywhere, and you will be astonished, not only by what it does for other people, but how it comes back to you in generous abundance.
All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.
A man who isn't generous with his money isn't generous with his love and affection.
Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.
How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions be, My friend must hate the man that injures me.
Working hard, and being thoughtful, and generous, and smart; it's a path to a better life.
Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
If the mind, that rules the body, ever so far forgets itself as to trample on its slave, the slave is never generous enough to forgive the injury, but will rise and smite the oppressor.
Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew.
Jealousy is the very reverse of understanding, of sympathy, and of generous feeling. Never has jealousy added to character, never does it make the individual big and fine.
The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.
Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.
there was no crime like the crime of stagnation - unproductiveness. With a creative trinity, mind, body and spirit, one must yield something back to the generous earth.
Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.