Quotes About Magnanimity

There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine

The more wit you have, the more good nature you must show, to induce people to pardon your superiority, for that is no easy matter.

He is invited to do great things who receives small things greatly.

Dans une grande a" me tout est grand. In a great soul everything isgreat.

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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.

He who is too much afraid of being duped has lost the power of being magnanimous.

In war, resolution; in defeat, defiance; in victory, magnanimity

Churchill had lived by a simple dictum: "In war, resolution. In defeat, defiance. In victory, magnanimity. In peace, goodwill"—and he sincerely meant it.

Great persons are able to do great kindnesses.

We have not sought this conflict; we have sought too long to avoid it; our forbearance has been construed into weakness, our magnanimity into fear, until the vindication of our manhood, as well as the defence of our rights, is required at our hands.

Never show anger, ill temper, or vengefulness, all disruptive emotions that will make people defensive. In the politics of large groups, welcome adversity as a chance to show the charming qualities of magnanimity and poise. Let others get flustered and upset—the contrast will redound to your favor. Never whine, never complain, never try to justify yourself.

Heroism, self-denial, and magnanimity, in all instances where they do not spring from a principle of religion, are but splendid altars on which we sacrifice one kind of self-love to another.

Be magnanimous, and forgive your enemies, but never forget their actions.

Magnanimus, et dimitte hostes, si oblitus sui actus.

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him

To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him. 71

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.

Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

If you can afford it, buy it. Always offer your friends the best that you can and have it in prodigious abundance.

The difficulty, as I saw it, was that she was trying to manage a public self whereas she was by nature a miniaturist who excelled at drawing into her field of activity nuances, intimations, unspoken thought, the most tenuous of personal statements. She was better at the glancing criticism than at spontaneous magnanimity

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they find it. And, what is more, they find it everywhere.

She was magnanimous to former opponents, never retaliating against supporters of her former husband or other adversaries, personal or official.