Generosity Quotes - Page 29

• I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Real, Men, Generous Man

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

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• Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

  Voltaire

  Empathy, Originality, Imitation

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• True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

  Ellen G. White

  Riches, Prosperity, True Generosity

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• I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.

  E. O. Wilson

  Christian, Teaching, Tolerance

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• Generosity is not only about money. There is more than one currency. Let your generosity be pervasive in life.

  Timothy Keller

  Currency, Your Generosity

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• We cannot win the weak by sharing our wealth with them. They feel our generosity as oppression.

  Eric Hoffer

  Winning, Weakness, Wealth

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• The generosity of Montanans is inspiring.

  Brian Schweitzer

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• Our commitment to this founding principle is especially relevant today. Americans are united as rarely before in compassion and generosity for our fellow citizens whose lives have been devastated by Hurricane Katrina. The powerful winds and floodwater of Katrina tore away the mask that has hidden from public view the many Americans who are left out and left behind.

  Edward Kennedy

  Powerful, Commitment, Compassion

  "Roberts: 'I Have No Agenda'". www.foxnews.com. September 13, 2005.

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• Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things.

  Bhartrhari

  Rain, Clouds, People

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• You can gain more friends by being yourself than you can by putting up a front. You can gain more friends by building people up than you can by tearing them down. And you can gain more friends by taking a few minutes from each day to do something kind for someone, whether it be a friend or a complete stranger. What a difference one person can make!

  Sasha Azevedo

  Being Yourself, Kindness, Differences

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• Kindness refreshes and restores the tired and broken.

  Gerard Straub

  Kindness, Tired, Broken

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• When giving to others do not linger on thoughts of a giving, what was given, or the one who has received.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving, Giving To Others, Given

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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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• There is no satisfaction that can compare with looking back across the years and finding you've grown in self-control, judgment, generosity, and unselfishness.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Self, Years, Satisfaction

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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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