Generous Quotes
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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.
Aristotle -
In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.
Rowan Williams
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I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.
Lance Loud -
My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.
Dan Hill -
Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.
T. Harv Eker -
Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.
Zsa Zsa Gabor -
I am in love, that’s enough: I feel generous, holy, human, trembling.
Jules Laforgue -
It is impossible for men engaged in low and groveling pursuits to have noble and generous sentiments. A man's thought must always follow his employment.
Demosthenes
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Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!
William Arthur Ward -
Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.
Warren Farrell -
The more generous we are, the more joyous we become.
William Arthur Ward -
No mean woman can cook well. It calls for a generous spirit, a light hand, and a large heart.
Eden Phillpotts -
When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets.
Oscar Wilde
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I think that Walter's [White] whole career is indicative of a large degree of egocentricity. Perhaps to be generous, you would have to say that he was a product of his period, which was that of self-projection in the name of organizational interest.
Ella Baker -
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert Frost -
The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
Marilyn Monroe -
To be generous is the best way to live in this world.
Nirmala Srivastava -
I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how stingy with others.
Saul Bellow -
Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You're so privileged to be there, you feel like you have to complain about something just so you don't have to think about how lucky you are. It's kind of over compensation, I think, when I'm feeling generous about it. Or, when I'm not, I think maybe it's just the basic requirement of being a teenager, feeling like you have to be perfect every time, and when you have an algebra test or a hangnail, the rest of the war-torn, poverty-stricken, deformed world ought to turn its attention to you.
Rachel DeWoskin -
Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity.
William Davenant -
Neither will the horse be adjudged to be generous, that is sumptuously adorned, but the horse whose nature is illustrious; nor is the man worthy who possesses great wealth, but he whose soul is generous.
Pythagoras -
How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?
David Sheff