Generous Quotes

Christmas is about giving. Be outrageously generous. Have fun, enjoy the process....then keep it up all year.

Andy Gullahorn is my favorite new musical discovery of the past five years. He's a brilliant writer, a fine musician and a generous spirit.

America faces an enemy who believes in enforced ignorance. And all that we stand for is the open mind, the generous spirit, the ideal of tolerance, freedom, education, opportunity.

Commit yourself to deeper awareness. Be generous of spirit. Embrace every day as a new world. Let the timeless be in charge of time.

The more independent you want to be, the more generous you must be with yourself as a woman.

America will be a prosperous, generous, and inclusive society.

It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.

I think I am incredibly generous with how much I give to my projects, but that's my generosity with the job.

Each one of us regardless of our situation, is in our search of our most authentic, vital, generous and wise self.

I am in deep shock. I have lost a beloved friend [George Michael] - the kindest, most generous soul and a brilliant artist. My heart goes out to his family and all of his fans.

Cyndi Lauper was hilarious and generous, someone I'd loved from childhood who didn't disappoint.

Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted in the freedom of all.

The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys.

If you're famous, you have to [be overly generous], otherwise people say, "Eric Idle came in and only left me $4." I always tip more than people expect.

Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.

Human beings are complicated. O.J. Simpson is a testament to that. Just because he stood on trial accused of murder doesn't mean he can't be a generous person.

As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.

Fashion has always been very generous. Think of what it has done for curing AIDS.

We are never so generous as when giving advice.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

Approach life knowing there will be plenty to go around. Be generous.

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

O Love! thou bane of the most generous souls! Thou doubtful pleasure, and thou certain pain.

What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.

She [Monica Vitti] was a great actress, but a very difficult person. I am not in contact with her at the moment because she is very sick. Not a generous woman, I have to say. I don't see her much.

If you give, it will be given to you. And I have found that generous people are blessed people.

The people of Pakistan are some of the most hospitable, kinds and generous people I have met anywhere, in the over 70 countries I have visited in my lifetime.

The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.

There are journalists I share a whole history with, so I tend to be generous to these guys, but those days are over.

It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.

A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

Nothing more excites to everything noble and generous, than virtuous love.

I'm incredibly grateful for Sophie Barthes, I'll always be incredibly grateful for her being generous enough to believe in what I thought. And it was just lucky that I met the right person.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him.

Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

I'm a generous host, but I'm a difficult and interfering guest. When I go around to other people's houses and they're cooking, I'm always telling them what to do.

Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.

Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.

It's a very generous culture, American culture. I know you can't generalize 300 million people, but everyone I've met here has been so lovely to me.

A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.

CBS was very generous in their offer to re-sign me. But I simply want to try something new.

How can you say something's important if you don't first withdraw and feel how rich you've become? That way you can become really generous. Otherwise, what do you give?

Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the unreasonable advantage which is often taken of the inequality of fortune.

Do not believe that a book is good, if in reading it thou dost not become more contented with thy existence, if it does not rouse up in thee most generous feelings.

The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.

The blood, the fountain whence the spirits flow The generous stream that waters every part, And motion, vigor, and warm life conveys To every particle that moves or lives.

The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!

The more generous the benefit, the easier you make it to stay on unemployment insurance, and the less incentive there is for people to actually go out and do what it takes to get a job.