Generosity Quotes
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Fans, true fans, are hard to find and precious. Just a few can change everything. What they demand, though, is generosity and bravery.
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Your average knitter, obsessed as we are with the art form, is quickly going to begin producing far more in the way of warm things than are needed by even an arctic-bound knitter. Knitting breeds generosity, true...but perhaps in a hurry to avoid burying ourselves in hand-knits. There are only so many scarves one knitter can use.
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If there's time for an emergency, why isn't there time for brilliance, generosity or learning?
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For those of us who make music together, I think it's important to realize that generosity on both sides is actually going to produce the biggest possibility.
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While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will.
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'It is so easy a thing to give-only great men have the courage and courtesy and, yes, the generosity to receive.'
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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.
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There was always an unspoken generosity about my mom.
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In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.
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Giving is the vital impulse and moral center of capitalism.
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Take the long way. Do the hard work, consistently and with generosity and transparency. And then you won't waste time doing it over.
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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.
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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)
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True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.
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Tithing is considerably less popular than words like generosity or sharing.
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Success always calls for greater generosity - though most people, lost in the darkness of their own egos, treat it as an occasion for greater greed. Collecting boot is not an end itself, but only a means for building an empire. Riches would be of little use to us now - except as a means of winning new friends.
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I was in awe of my father. His generosity was beyond anything I ever could imagine. The reason I say he's like Don Corleone is he was always breaking off hundreds. I'd be like, 'Hey Dad, I'm going to McDonald's with my friends,' and he'd just whip out a hundred: 'Here, go, have fun.'
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Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce entertaining and enlightening things online, are right to marvel. There is amazing inventiveness, boundless talent and ability, and overwhelming generosity on display. Where they go wrong is thinking that the Internet is an egalitarian, let alone revolutionary, platform for our self-expression and development, that being able to shout into the digital torrent is adequate for democracy.
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We're told compassion comes not from generosity but from compliance. We're told kindness means raiding a man's hard-earned wages and sending them off to Washington so they - not you - may dole them out in courtesies and indulgences.
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I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel like a mystery that is inviting us in. Sagan's great art lesson for me was generosity of wonder and making curiosity contagious.
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He [Osama bin Laden] is clearly an odd combination of a 12th-century theologian and a 21st-century CEO. He runs an absolutely unique organization in the Islamic world. It's multiethnic, multilinguistic, multinational. He is a combat veteran, three times wounded. He has a huge reputation in the Islamic world for generosity and leadership. He's a man who speaks eloquent, almost poetic Arabic, according to Bernard Lewis.
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Things like radical generosity and audacious faith are not produced when we focus on them, but when we focus on the gospel.
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Some people don't have a home or a place where they can cook a warm meal, and so we're thankful for the generosity of YG and the 4Hundred Waze Foundation to feed the community in the city of Compton.
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'Tis only from the selfishness and confin'd generosity of men, along with the scanty provision nature has made for his wants, that justice derives its origin.
