Generous Quotes

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The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how… — Friedrich Nietzsche
You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean,… — Orison Swett Marden
Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last. — Samuel Johnson
If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has… — Mother Teresa
A generous friendship no cold medium knows, Burns with one love, with one resentment glows. — Alexander Pope
...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of all humanity -… — Mairead Corrigan
A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation. — Robert Louis Stevenson
So soon as prudence has begun to grow up in the brain, like a dismal fungus, it finds its first expression in a paralysis of… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Somehow, the fact that more poor people are on welfare, receiving more generous payments, does not seem to have made this country a nice place… — Irving Kristol
In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise. — Wallace D. Wattles
Think of yourself as a role model for others-showing that you can be kind, generous, loving, and rich! — T. Harv Eker
There is scarce any one invention, which this nation has produced in our age, but it has some way or other been set forward by… — Robert Hooke
When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer… — Pope Francis
You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving. — Mario Batali
We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism. — Frank A. Clark
Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions; it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness… — Alphonse Karr
It needs as much generosity to take as to give. — Ivan Panin
It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept. — Samuel Richardson
It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity. — Charles Dudley Warner

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