Generosity Quotes

• Let me, tonight look back across the span Twixt dawn and dark, and to my conscience say- Because of some good act to beast or human- The world is better that I lived today.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • World
  • Good
  • Today

• When a man's knowledge is deep, he speaks well of an enemy. Instead of seeking revenge, he extends unexpected generosity. He turns insult into humor, ... and astonishes his adversary who finds no reason not to trust him.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Men
  • Knowledge
  • Trust

• You can’t make a good deal with a bad person. '23 Quotes from Warren Buffett on Life and Generosity' forbes.com (02 December 2013)

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Life
  • Good
  • Bad

• Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • People
  • Life
  • Curiosity

• There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

  

  E. F. Schumacher
  • Nature
  • Generosity
  • Incredibles

• We will be a country of generosity and warmth. But we will also be a country of law and order.

  

  Donald Trump
  • Country
  • Law
  • Generosity

• When our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • Success
  • Attitude
  • Bigs

• A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized by such words as faith, integrity, hope, optimism, courage, initiative, generosity, tolerance, tact, kindliness, and good common sense. A person with positive mental attitude aims for high goals and constantly strives to achieve them.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Good
  • High
  • Hope

• Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Promise

• The upper echelon of the movie industry is easier to deal with and the work is much easier to accomplish because of this generosity of spirit and confidence that they instill in the group around them.

  

  John Travolta
  • Work
  • Movie
  • Confidence

• I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.

  

  Fred Tomaselli
  • Generosity

• All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.

  

  Brendan Myers
  • People
  • Moral
  • Compassion

• When kindness comes at the expense of truth, it is not a kindness worth having. And when generosity leads to silence or abuse, it is not a generosity worth giving.

  

  Rachel Simmons
  • Truth
  • Giving
  • Silence

• My illness is one often characterized by dramatic overspending - in my case through frenzied shopping sprees, credit card abuse, excessive hoarding of unnecessary material goods and bizarre generosity with family, friends and even strangers.

  

  Andy Behrman
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Abuse

• Similarly, individual acts of aristocratic generosity do not eliminate pauperism; they perpetuate it.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Generosity

• Helping people and putting smiles on their faces is a great, great thing. God only knows why more people don't do it more often.

  

  Wayne Gerard Trotman
  • People
  • Helping
  • Faces

• OK, in all seriousness, I would say I couldn't be in a relationship without equality, generosity, integrity, spirit, kindness and humor. And awesomeness.

  

  Jennifer Aniston
  • Relationship
  • Integrity
  • Equality

• Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Feeling
  • Generosity
  • First In Love

• Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

  

  Khalil Gibran
  • Giving
  • Pride
  • Generosity

• Every time I've done a fund raiser, I've been blown away by the amount of money and the generosity that our fans have.

  

  Amanda Tapping
  • Time
  • Money
  • Done

• Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Heart
  • Spiritual
  • Materials

• Go into the streets, into the slums, into the fashionable quarters. Go into the day courts and the night courts. Become acquainted with sorrow, with many kinds of sorrow. Learn of the wonderful heroism of the poor, of the incredible generosity of the very poor

  

  Minnie Maddern Fiske
  • Wonderful
  • Incredibles
  • Quarters

• Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Fans
  • Demand
  • Bravery

• I am a huge admirer of Franklin Roosevelt's, and I believe social security has done untold good in alleviating the once-widespread issue of poverty among the elderly. FDR believed in the greatness and generosity of Americans - but he was also a cold-blooded politician.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Done

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