Generous Quotes · Page 32

Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man…

— Victor Hugo

The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and…

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

A generous heart, kind speech, & a life of service & compassion are the things which renew humanity.

— Gautama Buddha

Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?

— George Saunders

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but…

— Miguel de Cervantes

As my mother once said to me, ‘They’re quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them…

— Charles Baxter

Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or…

— Anonymous

The people I worked for before I was doing 'Vampire Diaries' were very generous to me.

— Julie Plec

Every generous action loves the public view; yet no theatre for virtue is equal to a consciousness of it.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Pryce, a veteran of Brazil and Baron Munchausen and a longtime Gilliam friend, bristles at the word chaos when applied to the…

— Jonathan Pryce

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

— Francesco Guicciardini

Feelings about money -- saving and spending, holding back and letting go -- start very early in our lives. Stingy people have…

— Fred Rogers

I wonder why anyone would hesitate to be generous with their writing. I mean, if you really want to make a living,…

— Seth Godin

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

You know, Emily was a selfish old woman in her way. She was very generous, but she always wanted a return. She…

— Agatha Christie

If we live by the principles of the gospel, we must be good people, for we will be generous and kind, thoughtful…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

— Mortimer Adler

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.

— Joseph Heller

You must therefore zealously guard in his mind the curious assumption 'My time is my own'. Let him have the feeling that…

— Anonymous

[John Larroquette] is very generous as the star of a show. He always made sure that if we had a joke that…

— Julie Benz

Like the vast majority of Americans, I've opposed same-sex marriage, but I've also opposed unjust discrimination against anyone, for racial or religious…

— Mitt Romney

Try to live with a generous heart. Doing anything else is too hard.

— Susan Elizabeth Phillips

It was frustrating when people loved you and took an interest in you and sometimes worried about you and personally cared what…

— Ann Brashares

Mother Liberty caresses with generous affections...[those] who, armed with the weapons of high-minded honesty,...have grasped that the freedom of each is rooted…

— Emma Goldman

The Cuban Revolutionary Government has been generous and very considerate to me and my family. I lived in Santa Clara for a…

— Huey Newton