Generous Quotes
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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
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I'm very generous, and I really want people to see that I am - that's really it.
Millie Bobby Brown
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That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
George Gissing
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A generous action is its own reward.
William Thomas Walsh
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Not every hour, nor every day, perhaps, can generous wishes ripen into kind actions; but there is not a moment that cannot be freighted with prayer.
William Mountford
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When the rich and well-established, who should be generous, are instead spiteful and cruel, they make their behavior wretched and base in spite of their wealth and position. When the intellectually brilliant, who should be reserved, instead show off, they are ignorant and foolish in their weakness in spite of their brilliance.
Zicheng Hong
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If we are generous enough, we can stretch our souls everywhere and everywhen else. If we succeed in doing so, we shall discover that our present embraces the past and the future and that the whole world is our province.
George Sarton
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People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
Sydney J. Harris
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Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.
Richard Pryor
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The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.
Joseph Heller
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To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't
Cecelia Ahern
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I try to be kind and generous, and to give to people, and to do what I think God wants me to do.
Michael Jackson
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Love isn't one-sided and selfish.It is full and generous and life-altering in the best of ways.Love does not destroy, Gabriel.It creates.
Sarah MacLean
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The thing I got to thinking about,' he said, 'is--what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless? While we have the conditions for economic opportunity here--and that is a blessing--do we have the conditions to learn how to self-regulate our own passions for the good of the whole?
Warren St. John
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If I could sum up what the Bible teaches about giving in one statement, it would be this: Generous living produces emotional happiness.
Chip Ingram
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I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.
Rod Stewart
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Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.
Seth Godin
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Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.
Albert Camus
