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Quotes About Generous

Love isn't one-sided and selfish.It is full and generous and life-altering in the best of ways.Love does not destroy, Gabriel.It creates.
~ Sarah MacLean
The energy of the Kennedy years was completely compelling... I had a sense of a generous society eager to change the world. Idealism was very contagious. So that's why I went to America. I didn't intend to stay.
~ Howard Stringer
people are generally willing to help, especially if you are specific and modest in your request.
~ Karen Wright
Nancy was more impulsive than industrious, more generous than wise, more plucky than prudent; she had none too much perseverance and no patience at all.
~ Kate Douglas Wiggin
I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There's something weirdly calming about being alone in a big city. It made me feel like the universe was hugely generous, and that my species was so damn smart to have constructed such a beautiful city.
~ Kate Klise
6Wisdom is a gift from a generous God, And every word He speaks is full of revelation And becomes a living fountain of Understanding within you.
~ Brian Simmons
6Wisdom is a gift from a generous God And every word He speaks is full of revelation, And becomes a living fountain of Understanding within you.[15] 7-8For the Lord has a Hidden storehouse of wisdom Made accessible to His godly lovers.[16]
~ Brian Simmons
Love is never passive. It is the very nature of love to give the best and not hold back. And the gift is unique, "the only begotten." The greater the object of love, the more costly the gift. "Any old thing" is not good enough. That would not be love.
~ Stuart Briscoe
To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't
~ Cecelia Ahern
Michael is a great person and a great father, generous and caring.
~ Debbie Rowe
Well, my take was people of Minnesota, these are good people. They're in many ways more generous than other parts of the country. They're better educated than other parts of the country.
~ Peter Agre
Human beings, in their generous endeavour to construct a hypothesis that shall not degrade a First Cause, have always hesitated to conceive a dominant power of lower moral quality than their own; and, even while they sit down and weep by the waters of Babylon, invent excuses for the oppression which prompts their tears.
~ Thomas Hardy
I think you're the sort of person who finds money on the ground and waves it in the air and asks if anyone has lost it. I think you cry in movies that aren't even sad because you have a soft heart, though you don't let it show. I think you do things that scare you, and that makes you braver than those adrenaline junkies who bungee-jump off bridges.
~ Gayle Forman
She's generous as an oil baron and loyal as a pit bull.
~ Gayle Forman
I'm lucky my parents are incredibly supportive and generous people who have put so much faith in me as I jump into this crazy business. It really is so far outside their comfort zone in terms of what a profession can be.
~ Jessica Rothe
Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the willingness to embrace grief in order to forgive. To be forgiven is to be loved.
~ Brené Brown, Rising Strong
The holy and generous wish, that rises like incense from a pure heart towards heaven, often lavishes its sweet perfume on the blast of evil times.
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
Whatever else I may repent of, therefore, let it be reckoned neither among my sins nor follies that I once had faith and force enough to form generous hopes of the world's destiny—yes!—and to do what in me lay for their accomplishment;
~ Nathaniel Hawthorne
I admit I'm a miser! The most generous thing I've done is get married!
~ Chunky Pandey
The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
~ Gary Oldman
Morgan Freeman is a very giving actor.
~ Austin Stowell
Here are some words I love, words that describe presence rather than means towards an end: nourishing, edifying, redemptive; courageous, generous, winsome; adventurous, curious, tender.
~ Krista Tippett
Love made you a better person. Made you feel protected and precious and chosen. Chosen such a lovely word! And in loving someone else you became better...noble and generous and beneficent.
~ Kristan Higgins
You're Eve Dallas. You're the love of my life. My heart and soul. You're a cop, mind and bone. You're a woman of strength and resilience. Stubborn, hardheaded, occasionally mean as a badger, and more generous than you'll admit.
~ J.D. Robb