Favour Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Download Open image “Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Favour Generosity Generous Humility Modesty Winning
Generosity is a lovely attribute, and we only practice it when relationships are more important to us than our possessions. — Michael Wright Copy Share Image
Generosity helps us cultivate awareness of things that really matter. Opportunities that make a real difference in the world. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Generosity is an attitude of understanding which we choose to respond to what is happening around us. — Kishore Bansal Copy Share Image
Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community. — Ross Perot Copy Share Image
“Rather than leaving generous people on the short end of an unequal bargain, practices of generosity are actually likely instead to provide generous givers… — Christian Smith Copy Share Image
Modesty makes large amends for the pain it gives those who labor under it, by the prejudice it affords every worthy person in their… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
True works of art contain their own theory and give us the measurement according to which we should judge them. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
I never believed in trying to do anything. Whatever I set out to do I found I had already accomplished. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours. — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Since, O sweet Lord Jesus, Thou art the present portion of Thy people, favour us this year with such a sense of Thy preciousness,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: "Am I a dishonest player?" - for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What we need in South Africa is for egos to be suppressed in favour of peace. We need to create a new breed of… — Chris Hani Copy Share Image
The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I'm in favour of drug tests, just so long as they are multiple choice. — Kurt Rambis Copy Share Image
“When you favour a woman, she will want to return the favour in so many means, but its better to rupidiate such offerings.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
I am not in favour of the takeover of excellent and strategically important British companies by struggling foreign firms whose actions are fuelled by… — David Sainsbury, Baron Sainsbury of Turville Copy Share Image
A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Whenever known and sufficient causes are available, it is anti-scientific to discard them in favour of a hypothesis that can never be verified. — Max Weber Copy Share Image