Generous Quotes
Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.
There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous.
Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love.
People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.
I've always been a generous and a kind person and so on, but never, ever have I experienced that kind of love. The world just looked different to me and still does.
Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?
To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.
Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --
The most generous part of your philanthropy could be the time you put in to procure the same results and same outcomes and same returns you demand in business.
No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.
While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment.
Happy the man whom indulgent fortune allows to pay to virtue what he owes to nature, and to make a generous gift of what must otherwise be ravished from him by cruel necessity.
It is only as we remember and embrace His generous grace toward us that we can extend it to others.
The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.
When you have gained a victory, do not push it too far; 'tis sufficient to let the company and your adversary see 'tis in your power but that you are too generous to make use of it.
The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
After September 11th, nations from across the globe offered their generous assistance to the people of New York. And whenever our friends around the world need our assistance, New York is there.
Every man is working out his destiny in his own way and nobody can be of any help except by being kind, generous, and patient.
It is one of my favorite thoughts that God manifests Himself to men in all the wise, good, humble, generous, great, and magnanimous men.
You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.
It is a real tragedy for a nation when three groups of it's people, namely politicians, religious leaders and charity workes, just pretend to be generous.
Political job is not a business job but it is a job of the people who have generous heart who want to help others with their views.
If a man is devout, we accuse him of hypocrisy; if he is not, of impiety; if he is humble, we look on his humility as a weakness; if he is generous, we call his courage pride.
I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.
Be generous with your colleagues and your competitors. When people learn that they do well whenever they work with you, they will be more willing to come to you with opportunities.
We now have the sweetest, kindest and most generous fans from far away places - it’s a real privilege.
A generous and elevated mind is distinguished by nothing more certainly than an eminent degree of curiosity.
We need students who can learn how to learn, who can discover how to push themselves and are generous enough and honest enough to engage with the outside world to make those dreams happen.
The deeper the experience of the free grace of God, the more generous we must become.
I don't consider anything I'm doing as generous. In the new model of the world, I hope people will consider whatever I'm doing as just normal.
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.
Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.
When we commit ourselves to writing for some part of each day, we are happier, more enlightened, alive, light-hearted and generous to everyone else. Even our health improves.
I hope that I am generous and tolerant, but certainly on the intellectual side I think that there are discoverable truths, and some things that are closer approximations to the truth than others.
I am not generous about telling people who I am and what I like to do because it's my life and it only belongs to me and my friends and family.