Generous Quotes

• 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
  • Age
  • Realizing
  • Stingy

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

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Nature
  • Respect
  • Confidence

• 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
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Compensation

• Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted, they'd create a completely new kind of society if only people weren't so blind, stupid and selfish.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • People
  • Society
  • Kind

• Generous souls Are still most subject to credulity.

  

  William Davenant
  • Soul
  • Generous
  • Credulity

• I'm generous. I give good tips. It's just - the way I live my life, ironically enough, is: I don't want anything. I'm not a consumer. I don't crave objects.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Want
  • Way
  • Enough

• I think it was a gift. For that performance, silver is generous.

  

  Sasha Cohen
  • Gift
  • Performance
  • Silver

• 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
  • Horse
  • Generous
  • Adjudged

• There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

  

  Cesare Pavese
  • You
  • Enemy
  • Revenge

• I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Understand
  • Little
  • Generous

• As a rule, only the poor are generous.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Poor
  • Rule
  • Generous

• A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.

  

  Ivor Novello
  • Mind
  • Home
  • House

• Liverpool men are quite generous. I got a lovely necklace. It was really nice.

  

  Heidi India Range
  • Generous
  • Liverpool men
  • Neckplace

• That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.

  

  George Gissing
  • Poverty
  • Right
  • Generous

• I'm very generous, and I really want people to see that I am - that's really it.

  

  Millie Bobby Brown
  • People
  • Really
  • Generous

• 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.

  

  John Ensign
  • People
  • Benefits
  • Easier

• We are better givers than getters, not because we are generous people, but because we are proud, arrogant people. The Christmas story-the one according to Luke, not Dickens-is not about how blessed it is to be givers but about how essential it is to see ourselves as receivers.

  

  William Henry Willimon
  • People
  • Blessed
  • Arrogant

• It is a powerful practice to be generous when you are the one feeling in need.

  

  Allan Lokos
  • Feeling
  • Need
  • Generous

• At the end of the day, I just do my job. I love my art. But I genuinely want to change the world. I'm very generous, and I really want people to see that I am - that's really it.

  

  Millie Bobby Brown
  • People
  • Change
  • Really

• I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.

  

  Cate Blanchett
  • Man
  • Intelligent
  • Married

• To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Hope

• My father was from Aberdeen, and a more generous man you couldn't wish to meet. I have a gold watch that belonged to him. He sold it to me on his deathbed. I wrote him a cheque for it, post dated of course.

  

  Chic Murray
  • Men
  • Father
  • Funny

• It is a work of psychogeography, albeit in a less explicit sense than Iain Sinclair's or Will Self's. It had to be fiction though, because I needed that freedom of including whatever belonged, and cutting out whatever didn't. The main fiction in it was matching Julius' generous and self-concealing character to New York's generous and self-concealing character. I think this also adds to my answer about New York's personality in the book.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Book

• Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world.

  

  Judy Biggert
  • Country
  • Democratic
  • Tolerant

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