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Quotes About Generous

The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.
~ Will Rogers
Try paying the bills with love. The idea I am trying to espouse is that you can have both love and money, and be rich and generous.
~ T. Harv Eker
Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.
~ George Mason
I daily discover so much baseness and ingratitude among mankind that I almost blush at being of the same species, and could quit the stage without regret, was it not for some gentle, generous souls like my dear Peggy. Benedict
~ Willard Sterne Randall
Come then, ye generous citizens, range yourselves under the standard of General Liberty, against which all the force and artifice of tyranny will never be able to prevail. General
~ Willard Sterne Randall
Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
~ William F. Buckley (Jr.)
Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other peoples' freedom and security.
~ William F. Buckley, Jr.
today and in a good winter mood, someone not subject to seasonal affective disorder, someone with a generous
~ David Guterson
When the mask of self-righteousness has been torn from us and we stand stripped of all our accustomed defenses, we are candidates for God's generous grace.
~ Erwin W. Lutzer
I have found God to be cordial and generous and in every way easy to live with.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Rejoicing is the essence of genuine worship. A sad face (apart from remorse for sin or regret concerning the pain of others) is an affront to a gracious and generous God.
~ Max Anders
The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.
~ Joseph Heller
I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.
~ Paula Scher
Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history.
~ Walker Percy
The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres.
~ Kristin Hannah, Summer Island
It is these undeniable qualities of human love and compassion and self-sacrifice that give me hope for the future. We are, indeed, often cruel and evil. Nobody can deny this. We gang up on each one another, we torture each other, with words as well as deeds, we fight, we kill. But we are also capable of the most noble, generous, and heroic behavior.
~ Jane Goodall
Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths? Isn't it a sufficient condemnation of society to find one's self accepting such phraseology?
~ Edith Wharton
And as he had seen her that day, so she had remained; never quite the same height, yet never below it: generous, faithful, unwearied; but so lacking in imagination, so incapable of growth, that the world of her youth had fallen into pieces and rebuilt itself without her ever being conscious of the change.
~ Edith Wharton
A true artist should put a generous deceit on the spectators, and effect the noblest designs by easy methods.
~ Edmund Burke
Neighbors are competitors instead of partners, suspicious instead of trustful, indifferent instead of helpful, cold instead of loving, greedy instead of generous. We no longer consider ourselves living in neighborhoods, but only as living next to 'hoods.'
~ Mother Angelica
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven." Johannes A. Gaertner (1912–1996) PROFESSOR, THEOLOGIAN, POET
~ Rhonda Byrne
Leo Valdez! the spirit howled. Open this gate or I will kill you! A fair and generous offer! Leo said.
~ Rick Riordan