Generosity Quotes - Page 27

• To me India is a land of beauty and generosity, of traditional hospitality and the acceptance of many cultures.

  Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

  Acceptance, Land, India

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• You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

  Jane Austen

  Mother, Giving, Attention

  Jane Austen (2016). “The Letters of Jane Austen”, p.81, Jane Austen

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• Generosity is luck going in the opposite direction, away from you. If you're generous to someone, if you do something to help him out, you are in effect making him lucky. This is important. It's like inviting yourself into a community of good fortune.

  Twyla Tharp

  Opposites, Community, Luck

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• Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

  Agnes Repplier

  Writing, Men, Letters

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• Literature is a place for generosity and affection and hunger for equals - not a prizefight ring. We are increased, confirmed in our medium, roused to do our best, by every good writer, every fine achievement. Would we want one good writer or fine book less? The sense of writers being pitted against each other is bred primarily by the workings of the commercial marketplace, and by critics lauding one writer at the expense of another while ignoring the existence of nearly all.

  Tillie Olsen

  Book, Achievement, Literature

  Tillie Olsen (2014). “Silences”, p.174, The Feminist Press at CUNY

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• It is easier for the reader to judge, by a thousand times, than for the writer to invent. The writer must summon his Idea out of nowhere, and his characters out of nothing, and catch words as they fly, and nail them to the page. The reader has something to go by and somewhere to start from, given to him freely and with great generosity by the writer. And still the reader feels free to find fault.

  Fay Weldon

  Book, Reading, Character

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• Writing is an act of generosity toward other people.

  Fay Weldon

  Writing, People

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• As counterintuitive as it seems, generosity begins wherever you are. It is important to make generosity a priority.

  Andy Stanley

  Priorities, Important, Wherever You Are

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• Generosity helps us cultivate awareness of things that really matter. Opportunities that make a real difference in the world.

  Andy Stanley

  Real, Opportunity, Differences

  Source: paulsohn.org

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• Generosity helps us make a concerted effort to keep the needs of others in the forefront of our thinking. Rich people should not feel guilty, but we should feel responsible. We are called to be good stewards of the resources we have been privileged to manage.

  Andy Stanley

  Thinking, Effort, Guilt

  "Atlanta Megachurch Pastor Andy Stanley 'Uncomfortably Bold' on Confronting Christians About Wealth, Generosity". Interview with Ruth Malhotra, www.christianpost.com. January 2, 2014.

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• Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.

  James Cook

  Giving, Done, Philanthropy

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• Ryan Murphy just gives new people a shot, and it takes a lot of confidence and generosity to do that.

  Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

  People, Giving, Shots

  Source: collider.com

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• God demonstrates generosity, then asks it from His people.

  Max Anders

  People, Asks

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• Welfare states on both sides of the Atlantic have discovered that largesse to losers does not reduce their hostility to society, but only increases it. Far from producing gratitude, generosity is seen as an admission of guilt, and the reparations as inadequate compensations for injustices - leading to worsening behavior by the recipients.

  Thomas Sowell

  Gratitude, Guilt, Doe

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• Your generosity is reflected in what you do with your own money, not in what you do with other people's money. If I give a lot of money to charity, then I am generous. If you give a smaller fraction of your money to charity, then you are less generous. But if you want to tax me in order to give my money to charity, that does not make you generous.

  Arnold Kling

  Order, Giving, People

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• Only by realizing what selfishness and lack of generosity really are can the delicious fragrance of true love and effective generosity, which is not of the mind, burst forth in our hearts.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Heart, Mind, Selfishness

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• When wholeheartedly we help someone, when in a natural and spontaneous way we care for the tree and water the flowers in the garden even though no one required us, there is authentic generosity, genuine sympathy, true love.

  Samael Aun Weor

  Flower, Garden, Water

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• Seek out people to work with who are brimming with talent, energy, integrity, optimism, and generosity.

  Martha Stewart

  Business, Integrity, Work

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• Leadership means firmness, not harshness or bullying; understanding, not weakness; justice, not irresponsible freedom; humaneness, not intolerance; generosity, not selfishness; pride, not egotism.

  Omar N. Bradley

  Bullying, Mean, Pride

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• God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Grace, Showers, Barriers

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• Serenity, regularity, absence of vanity,Sincerity, simplicity, veracity, equanimity, Fixity, non-irritability, adaptability, Humility, tenacity, integrity, nobility, magnanimity, charity, generosity, purity. Practise daily these eighteen "ities" You will soon attain immortality.

  Socrates

  Integrity, Humility, Vanity

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• I attribute that to the generosity of people that are in the entertainment business because they are all struggling. All roads seem to come to acting, for certain kinds of people that have a reason for being there. They want to be seen and heard, but there's more to it than that. There's a kindred spirit of struggling to find out, "What is this thing? What are we?" It's those eternal questions. But, in the meanwhile, I've met some wonderful people doing this.

  Lance Henriksen

  Struggle, People, Acting

  Source: collider.com

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• My personal prayer is simply my joy to be alive, and to live in gratitude and generosity.

  Miguel Angel Ruiz

  Gratitude, Prayer, Joy

  Source: www.awaken.com

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• [There was] an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think while back here [in California] we were always eager to be surprised and engaged in new ways.

  Eleanor Antin

  New York, Thinking, California

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• Real love doesn't seek to acquire. It gives itself away. Its very nature is that of surrender, service, and generosity.

  Catherine Ingram

  Real, Giving, Surrender

  Catherine Ingram (2004). “Passionate Presence”, p.37, Penguin

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