Generous Quotes

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Whatever vocation you decide on, track down the best people in the world at doing it and surround yourself with them. Aim high and be… — Scott Weiss
Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual… — Gautama Buddha
Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams. — John C. Maxwell
If we want users to like our software we should design it to behave like a likeable person: respectful, generous and helpful. — Alan Cooper
Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came… — Dave Eggers
The reality is that we are hated not because of our democracy, freedoms, and generous social security system; rather, we are hated because of our… — Amir Butler
These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a… — Robert Louis Stevenson
I've declined every congressional benefit I could decline, federal health insurance, the retirement program, the 403(b) program, which I think is overly generous. I've got… — Scott Rigell
Without the Utopians of other times, men would still live in caves, miserable and naked. It was Utopians who traced the lines of the first… — Anatole France
If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
His [Erwin SchrÃ¶dinger's] private life seemed strange to bourgeois people like ourselves. But all this does not matter. He was a most lovable person, independent,… — Max Born
The only way to save our dreams is by being generous with ourselves. — Paulo Coelho
Generosity is a virtue for individuals, not governments. When governments are generous it is with other peopleâ€™s money, other peopleâ€™s safety, other peopleâ€™s future. — P.D. James
The Church and the world have a great need of eucharistic worship. Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love. Let us be generous… — Pope John Paul II
America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human beingâ€”confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-orientedâ€”is a vast improvement… — Dinesh D'Souza
And by anarchist spirit I mean that deeply human sentiment, which aims at the good of all, freedom and justice for all, solidarity and love… — Errico Malatesta
If we live by the principles of the gospel, we must be good people, for we will be generous and kind, thoughtful and tolerant, helpful… — Gordon B. Hinckley
I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can… — Maya Angelou
Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels… — Pope Pius XII
What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise, and,… — William Makepeace Thackeray

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