Generosity Quotes - Page 28

• There never was a revelation without a question first.

  John Andreas Widtsoe

  Firsts, Revelations

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• We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do.

  Richard L. Evans

  Can Do

  Richard L. Evans (1973). “Richard L. Evans--the man and the message”

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• The pain of sexual frustration, of repressed tenderness, of denied curiosity, of isolation in the ego, of greed, suppressed rebellion, of hatred poisoning all love and generosity, permeates our sexuality. What we love we destroy.

  Germaine Greer

  Pain, Frustration, Hatred

  Germaine Greer (1990). “The Madwoman's Underclothes: Essays and Occasional Writings”, p.57, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Goals are good. Laboring with a distant aim sets the mind in a higher key and puts us at our best.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Keys, Goal, Mind

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• We cannot do everything at once, but we can do a great deal if we choose our goals well and work diligently to attain them.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Goal, Deals, Wells

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• There is a blueprint for every accomplishment-all we need to do is to know how to follow it. Trial and error is ridiculous after the truth has once been established.

  Sterling W Sill

  Errors, Accomplishment, Trial And Error

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• Planning is the mother of almost every other ability. Make your plan and set a timetable for its accomplishment in writing.

  Sterling W Sill

  Mother, Writing, Accomplishment

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• When we set goals we are in command. If we know where we are going, we can judge more accurately where we are now and make effective plans to reach our destination.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Goal, Judging, Destination

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• Our goals should stretch us bit by bit. So often when we think we have encountered a ceiling, it is really a psychological or experiential barrier that we have built ourselves. We built it and we can remove it.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Thinking, Goal, Ceilings

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• Without making a fetish of goal setting, and without letting "lists" of tasks we desire to do dominate us, some recording of goals is wise not only for the self-reminder these constitute, but also for the satisfaction of crossing things off.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Wise, Self, Goal

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• A garden is a grand teacher. It teaches patience and careful watchfulness; it teaches industry and thrift; above all it teaches entire trust.

  Gertrude Jekyll

  Trust, Patience, Teacher

  Gertrude Jekyll (2011). “Wood and Garden: Notes and Thoughts, Practical and Critical, of a Working Amateur”, p.6, Cambridge University Press

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• Obstinacy is the strength of the weak. Firmness founded upon principle, upon the truth and right, order and law, duty and generosity, is the obstinacy of sages.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Law, Order, Principles

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• All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?

  Ramana Maharshi

  Self, Giving, Truth Is

  Ramana Maharshi (2004). “The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi”, p.25, Shambhala Publications

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• Dating is like trying to catch a fish. Some guys go to the gym and have huge muscles and six-pack abs, and that attracts a lot of women. Other guys, they go and learn how to become pick-up artists so they charm their way into a woman's heart, at least for the night. Then there are guys like myself, who don't have either of those, but we have some level of generosity and can treat women with respect and open a door for them or buy them gifts. And surprisingly, buying presents happens to be one of the languages of love! And it's one that many women relate to.

  Brandon Wade

  Heart, Artist, Night

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• Happiness never decreased by being shared.

  Gautama Buddha

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• Because there is no nation so powerful it cannot be wounded, nor a people so small they cannot offer mighty comfort.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Powerful, People, Comfort

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• Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

  Megan Chance

  Patience, Men, Impatient

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• Love leads us into mystery where no one can say what comes next, or how, or why.

  Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg

  Next, Mystery

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• I once made the mistake of writing a story with David Corbett. The man smoked me. He can delineate the character and personality of an accordion in three strokes. I didn't even know accordions had character. This act of generosity and wisdom from a very good writer will help anyone who is staring at a blank page, any day, any time. Highly recommended.

  Luis Alberto Urrea

  Mistake, Writing, Character

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• Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.

  Gautama Buddha

  Expression, Giving, Joy

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• To quote the exceptional teacher Marva Collins, "I will is more important than IQ." It is wonderful to have a terrific mind, but it's been my experience that having outstanding intelligence is a very small part of the total package that leads to success and happiness. Discipline, hard work, perseverance, and generosity of spirit are, in the final analysis, far more important

  Rafe Esquith

  Perseverance, Teacher, Hard Work

  Rafe Esquith (2008). “There Are No Shortcuts”, p.156, Anchor

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• Tyranny brings ignorance and brutality with it. It degrades men from their just rank into the class of brutes; it damps their spirits; it suppresses art; it extinguishes every spark of noble ardor and generosity in the breasts of those who are enslaved by it; it makes naturally strong and great minds feeble and little, and triumphs over the ruins of virtue and humanity.

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Art, Strong, Ignorance

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• And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the great difference between human beings. . . . The imagination is the mother of pity, the mother of generosity, the mother of every possible virtue. It is by the imagination that you are enabled to put yourself in the place of another.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Mother, Differences

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.4535, Library of Alexandria

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• In doing one's work primarily for God, the fear of undue restriction is put, sooner or later, out of the question. He pays me and He pays me well. He pays me and He will not fail to pay me. He pays me not merely for the rule of thumb task, which is all that men recognize, but to everything else I bring to my job in the way of industry, good intentions and cheerfulness. If the Lord loveth a cheerful giver, as St. Paul says, we may depend upon it that He loveth a cheerful worker; and where we can cleave the way to His love there we find His endless generosity.

  Basil King

  Love, Jobs, Fear

  Basil King (2012). “The Conquest of Fear”, p.172, tredition

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• These are my politics: to change what we can; to better what we can; but still to bear in mind that man is but a devil weakly fettered by some generous beliefs and impositions; and for no word however sounding, and no cause however just and pious, to relax the stricture on these bonds.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Men, Evil, Relaxation

  'More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter' (1885) 'Epilogue of the Cigar Divan'

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