Generous Quotes
889 quotes by 702 authors
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Photography is a generous medium…
— Lee Friedlander
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We are not asked to subscribe to any utopia or to believe in a perfect world just around the corner. We are asked to be…
— Emily Greene Balch
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Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.
— Herman Melville
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I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.
— Bobby Fischer
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The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee…
— Marcus Buckingham
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Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human.... you are generous, you are hospitable,…
— Desmond Tutu
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I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not…
— Louis Tomlinson
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I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are…
— Calvin Coolidge
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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…
— Kay Arthur
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The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want…
— Charlie Kaufman
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Selfless, generous, compassionate living is unassailable.
— Andy Stanley
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Political job is not a business job but it is a job of the people who have generous heart who want to help others with…
— Khem Veasna
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It is a real tragedy for a nation when three groups of it's people, namely politicians, religious leaders and charity workes, just pretend to be…
— Khem Veasna
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The true foundation of the brotherhood of humankind is belief in the knowledge that God is the Father of humankind. For us, therefore, brotherhood is…
— Harry S. Truman
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As a rule, only the poor are generous.
— Honore de Balzac
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All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original…
— Isaac D'Israeli
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Be confident. Be compassionate. Be intelligent. Be humble. Be generous. The universe returns to you what you put out.
— Lauren Jauregui
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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?…
— Warren St. John
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The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.
— Richard Dawkins
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