Generosity Quotes - Page 33

• It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present.

  J. A. Spender

  Promise, Compensation

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• The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Mind, Want, Feels

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• Commitment becomes hysterical when those who have nothing to give advocate generosity, and those who have nothing to give up preach renunciation.

  Eric Hoffer

  Giving Up, Commitment, Hysterical

  "Reflections on the Human Condition". Book by Eric Hoffer, Section 44, 1973.

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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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• 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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• Let us consider what we call vicious luxury. No gratification, however sensual, can of itself be esteemed vicious. A gratification is only vicious when it engrosses all a man's expense, and leaves no ability for such acts of duty and generosity as are required by his situation and fortune. The same care and toil that raise a dish of peas at Christmas would give bread to a whole family during six months.

  David Hume

  Men, Luxury, Giving

  David Hume, Stephen Copley, Andrew Edgar (2008). “Selected Essays”, p.176, Oxford University Press

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• Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing.

  Paul Theroux

  Art, Painting, Natural

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.

  Alain de Botton

  People, Envy, May

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• If I've learned anything in the more than 50 years that I've led MDA, it's that the generosity of the American people knows no bounds. I'm sure that with their fellow citizens in such dire need, they'll dig deep and do everything they can to help. I'm hopeful that many people will be willing to make two phone calls and donate to both causes.

  Jerry Lewis

  Phones, Years, Two

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• It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.

  Patrick Stewart

  Christmas, Giving, Rejection

  "Televised chestnuts: Christmas present". www.cnn.com. November 30, 1999.

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• There flows throughout our whole history a stream of humanity, of generosity, of tolerance, so broad, so powerful, and so pure that it would be vain indeed to look for a similar one in the past of any other European country.

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski

  Country, Powerful, Past

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• Americans are known for their strength, fortitude, and generosity in times of need. We encourage people in the U.S. and everywhere to give with their hearts, reach out to these victims, and donate what they can to the relief efforts.

  Michael Dell

  Heart, People, Giving

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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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• The relations between parents and children are certainly not only those of constraint. There is spontaneous mutual affection, which from the first prompts the child to acts of generosity and even of self-sacrifice, to very touching demonstrations which are in no way prescribed. And here no doubt is the starting point for that morality of good which we shall see developing alongside of the morality of right or duty, and which in some persons completely replaces it.

  Jean Piaget

  Children, Sacrifice, Self

  Jean Piaget (1997). “The Moral Judgement of the Child”, p.195, Simon and Schuster

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• Although only one man may be receiving the favors of a woman, all men in her presence are warmed. That's the great Generosity of women and the great generosity of the Creator who worked it out is that there are no unilateral agreements on sexuality.

  Leonard Cohen

  Men, Receiving, Favors

  "Ladies and Gentlemen, Mr. Leonard Cohen", 1966.

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• Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.

  Martin Amis

  Country, Past, Mind

  "Political Correctness: Robert Bly and Philip Larkin". Lecture given at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, January 30, 1997.

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• The government is far more interested in taking, in regulated taking, than in promoting spontaneous generosity.

  Edward Albee

  Government, Spontaneous, Promoting

  Edward Albee (1965). “Tiny Alice”, p.28, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• Tim Kaine has a message of fiscal responsibility and generosity of spirit. That kind of message can sell anywhere.

  Barack Obama

  Responsibility, Messages, Spirit

  "Vetting Obama's 'man'" by Christina Bellantoni, www.washingtontimes.com. August 3, 2008.

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• Ernest Bevin had many of the strongest characteristics of the English race. His manliness, his common sense, his rough simplicity, sturdiness and kind heart, easy geniality and generosity, all are qualities which we who live in the southern part of this famous island regard with admiration.

  Ernest Bevin

  Heart, Islands, Race

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• True love is not the helpless desire to possess the cherished object of one's fervent affection; true love is the disciplined generosity we require of ourselves for the sake of another when we would rather be selfish; that, at least, is how I have taught myself to love my wife.

  Stephen L. Carter

  Selfish, Love Is, Wife

  Stephen L. Carter (2002). “The Emperor of Ocean Park”, Knopf

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• At this critical time, I am grateful to Sandra Bullock for once again demonstrating her leadership, compassion and belief in our global humanitarian mission. Sandra continues to enable our lifesaving work and is a model for personal generosity.

  Sandra Bullock

  Grateful, Compassion, Belief

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• It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

  Anthony Daniels

  People, Mind, Easy

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• Decide the friends, mentors & leaders you want in your life, in your inner circle, and court them with emotional generosity. Make it matter.

  Gary W. Goldstein

  Emotional, Circles, Leader

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• Faith is from within; it is the outbreaking of human spontaneity; it is force of soul, grandeur of sentiment, magnanimity, generosity, courage. Its formulas are naturally unintelligible in their literal tenor; for, otherwise, they would represent that which is scientifically known, and would not be the mere provisional clothing of that which is not objectively given, but subjectively projected from the inmost depth of the soul.

  William Batchelder Greene

  Soul, Depth, Spontaneity

  William Batchelder Greene (1871). “The Blazing Star”, p.6

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