Generous Quotes

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This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try, as best you can, not to let… — John O'Donohue
She knew she was lovely, and she shared it like a gift. Every smile from Agatha was like waking up to a perfect sunny day.… — Rainbow Rowell
Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it. — Pietro Aretino
Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all… — Winston Churchill
Forgiveness proceeds from a generous soul. — Niccolo Machiavelli
The joy of brightening other lives, bearing each others' burdens, easing other's loads and supplanting empty hearts and lives with generous gifts becomes for us… — William Carey Jones
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget. — Maria Edgeworth
What really matters is that there is so much faith and love and kindliness which we can share with and provoke in others, and that… — James Branch Cabell
There are two Americas. One is the America of Lincoln and Adlai Stevenson; the other is the America of Teddy Roosevelt and the modern superpatriots.… — J. William Fulbright
To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it. — Benjamin Franklin
"Peace is not the product of terror or fear. Peace is not the silence of cemeteries. Peace is not the silent result of violent repression.… — Oscar Romero
It is the misfortune of all miscellaneous political combinations, that with the purest motives of their more generous members are ever mixed the most sordid… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
...in place of the Old Bottom Line of money and power, a New Bottom Line of Love and Generosity is possible. People of all faiths… — Michael Lerner
If you are extremely generous, greed will run away. — Nirmala Srivastava
To be generous is the best way to live in this world. — Nirmala Srivastava
Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous — Bill Bradley
Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to… — Bernard Baruch
If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile… — Dalai Lama
Healing the self means committing ourselves to a wholehearted willingness to be what and how we are-beings frail and fragile, strong and passionate, neurotic and… — Paula Gunn Allen
As a youth, I hated myself for not being good enough. All my inadequacies and failures, not being kind enough, generous or understanding enough, would… — Mira Sorvino

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