Generous Quotes

• Mel is a great director because he's not just a director, he's an actor, so he knows how to direct actors. I loved working with him. He's great as a director. He's so intelligent. He's generous. I really loved him.

  

  Monica Bellucci
  • Working
  • Intelligent
  • Really

• 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
  • Happiness
  • Emotional
  • Bible

• Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Happy
  • Happiness
  • inspirational

• As I am generous towards others ... As I see a person in need and don't just say, 'God bless you.' I am proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Needs
  • Persons
  • Bless

• Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.

  

  Judy Davis
  • Way
  • Honest
  • Delicious

• Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Words
  • Generous
  • Absent

• The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.

  

  Carol Ryrie Brink
  • Persons
  • Praise
  • Rewards

• We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Interesting
  • Kindness
  • Insight

• 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
  • Way
  • Selfish
  • Generous

• 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
  • Opportunity
  • Passion
  • Economic

• I get emails every day from people saying, "I never heard your music. I don't know anything about you. I just happened to watch this on Netflix. I hope you're feeling better. More power to you." It just shows you, I don't know, how generous and wonderful people can be.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Feelings
  • Wonderful

• He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

  

  Richard Savage
  • Foolish
  • Generous
  • Boast

• People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.

  

  Sydney J. Harris
  • Think
  • Fault
  • Generous

• Instead I ought to be grateful to Him who never owed me anything for having been so generous to me, rather than think that He deprived me of those things or has taken away from me whatever He did not give me.

  

  Rene Descartes
  • Give
  • Grateful
  • Generous

• I wonder why anyone would hesitate to be generous with their writing. I mean, if you really want to make a living, go to Wall Street and trade oil futures ... We're writers. We're doing something that is inherently a generous act. We're exposing ourselves to the muse and to the things that frighten us. Why do that if you're not willing to be generous? And paradoxically, almost ironically, it turns out that the more generous you are, the more money you make. But that's secondary. For me, the privilege of being generous is why I get to do this.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Writing
  • Wonder
  • Trade

• 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
  • World
  • Soul
  • Past

• 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
  • Asks
  • Generous
  • Favors

• 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
  • People
  • Looks
  • Wells

• 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
  • People
  • God
  • Generous

• A generous action is its own reward.

  

  William Thomas Walsh
  • Rewards
  • Generous

• We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Needs
  • Generous
  • Ruffles

• There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • May
  • Giving
  • Differences

• Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Generous

• 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
  • Art
  • Humans
  • Connections

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