The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of… — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image
Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
I mean a man whose hopes and aims may sometimes lie (as most men's sometimes do, I dare say) above the ordinary… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain… — Connie Nielsen Copy Share Image
A saint is simply a human being whose soul has ... grown up to its full stature, by full and generous response… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
His [Erwin Schrödinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most… — Max Born Copy Share Image
Like humility, generosity comes from seeing that everything we have and everything we accomplish comes from God's grace and God's love for… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
No matter how rich or poor you might feel, right now is the time to be generous. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
Unfinished business is our worst business. Perpetual procrastination must yield to perceptive preparation. Today we have a little more time to bless… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Not surprisingly, most people feel most beautiful when they are involved in an act of service, or are doing something that makes… — Jacqueline Novogratz Copy Share Image
Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. Undoubtedly, there are other routes to learning the wishes… — Mary Blakely Copy Share Image
People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act… — George Aiken Copy Share Image
They say that when god was in Jerusalem he forgave his murderers, but now he will not forgive an honest man for… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I have begun in old age to understand...that we seldom if ever realize how generous we are to ourselves, and just how… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Stephen King reached out to me twenty-five years ago and taught me some valuable lessons. In return, I've tried to be generous… — John Grisham Copy Share Image
Andy [Hertzfeld], just by nature, is one of these straight shooters. A very moral guy, kind of an open book. Along with… — Michael Stuhlbarg Copy Share Image
Where is the man to be found who wishes to remain indebted for the defense of his own person and property to… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
Be confident. Be compassionate. Be intelligent. Be humble. Be generous. The universe returns to you what you put out. — Lauren Jauregui Copy Share Image
Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows; One should our interests and our passions… — Homer Copy Share Image
David Epstein, the author of the best book on athletics in recent memory - "The Sports Gene" - wrote to me to… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country… — Irving Kristol Copy Share Image