logo

Quotes About Magnanimous

I do not wish to say that one should love death; but one should love life so magnanimously, so without calculating and selecting, that love of death (the turned-away side of life) is continually and involuntarily included - which actually happens invariably in the great motions of love, which are impetuous and illimitable.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.
~ George Washington
IN 1944 ROMMEL was already a living legend. He was known as a great commander in the field, distinguished by that rare quality, a feeling for the battle. Bold, dashing and handsome, he was relentless in combat, magnanimous in victory and gracious to his vanquished enemies. He seemed invincible. Where he was, there was victory: he attacked like a tornado, and even when he withdrew, his enemies followed very gingerly indeed.
~ David Irving
I hope you will respond to the crisis of confidence that Watergate has created by opening up your administration and reaching out to people in a more magnanimous spirit.
~ Elliot Richardson
secondly, what the nature of God is. Whatever that nature is discovered to be, the man who would please and obey Him must strive with all his might to be made like unto him. If the Divine is faithful, he also must be faithful; if free, he also must be free; if beneficent, he also must be beneficent; if magnanimous, he also must be magnanimous. Thus as an imitator of God must he follow Him in every deed and word.
~ Epictetus
If the Divine is faithful, he also must be faithful; if free, he also must be free; if beneficent, he also must be beneficent; if magnanimous, he also must be magnanimous. Thus as an imitator of God must he follow Him in every deed and word.
~ Epictetus
That's me being magnanimous in victory. Normally I kill them, kill their families, and piss on their ancestors' graves.
~ Lee Child
The sense of gratitude produces true spiritual alchemy, makes us magnanimous - large souled.
~ Sam Keen
No Bedouin wished to be outdone in showing kindness to a guest in his tent - or to be shamed by the charge of not being open-handed or magnanimous. p 55
~ John Adair
Persevere in the fight, struggle on, do not let go, think magnanimously of man and life, for man is good and life is affluent and fruitful.
~ Luc de Clapiers
I'm very generous.
~ Elton John
In a serious struggle there is no worse cruelty than to be magnanimous at an inopportune time.
~ Leon Trotsky
That's all I was: a terrible flirt, coquettish and amusing. I had a few plus points, which kept me in everybody's good graces: I was hardworking, honest and generous. I would never have refused anyone who wanted to peek at my answers, I was magnanimous with my candy, and I wasn't stuck-up. Would all that admiration eventually have made me overconfident?
~ Anne Frank
I'm-being-sooo-generous
~ Melanie Marks
I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.
~ Frank Beddor
So have I seen Passion and Vanity stamping the living magnanimous earth, but the earth did not alter her tides and her seasons for that.
~ Herman Melville
But what is worship? thought I. Do you suppose now, Ishmael, that the magnanimous God of heaven and earth—pagans and all included—can possibly be jealous of an insignificant bit of black wood? Impossible! But what is worship?—to do the will of God—that is worship. And what is the will of God?—to do to my fellow man what I would have my fellow man to do to me—that is the will of God.
~ Herman Melville
An Alien Enterprise is dedicated to Professor Stefano Breccia, who sadly died prematurely in March 2012. One of the most remarkable men I have ever met, Stefano magnanimously provided me with an
~ Timothy Good
In shallow men the fish of small thoughts cause much commotion, in magnanimous oceanic minds the whales of inspiration cause hardly a ruffle" (Mao Tse-tung).
~ George L. Jackson
To conclude wars decisively and achieve prewar aims, the victor must defeat, and often even humiliate militarily, an enemy and force the loser to abandon prewar behavior before offering a magnanimous peace. "Humiliate," here, does not mean to gratuitously insult or ridicule a prostrate enemy but rather to show him that the wages of his unprovoked aggression are the end of his ability to make war on others.
~ Victor Davis Hanson
The personal Michael is indescribable. He's magnanimous. He truly is in every way. Had it not been for all the media stuff, I would have stayed married to him forever unless he finally got tired of me.
~ Debbie Rowe
Khushi is very sensitive but not very expressive. She is a little pricey as a person. She can be a little bit of a bully. But, there's strength and resilience in my sister that is magnanimous but it is silent.
~ Janhvi Kapoor
Ay, he was porn at Monmouth, Captain Gower. What call you the town's name where Alexander the Pig was born! GOWER- Alexander the Great. FLUELLEN- Why, I pray you, is not pig great? the pig, or the great, or the mighty, or the huge, or the magnanimous, are all one reckonings, save the phrase is a little variations.
~ William Shakespeare
I'm not a vindictive kind of guy.
~ Adam West