Generous Quotes
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The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.
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Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?
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Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed.
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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.
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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.
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Happiness is generous. It does not subsist on destruction.
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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.
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People who think they're generous to a fault usually think that's their only fault.
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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.
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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.
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The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.
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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.
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A generous action is its own reward.
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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.
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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.
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My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.
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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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?
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There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous.
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Be relentlessly generous, without focusing on when it will come back to you.
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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.
