Generosity Quotes - Page 36

• If you want to conquer anger, develop meekness and generosity.

  Vladimir Aleksandrovich Antonov

  Soul, Want, Conquer

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• Either over neither, both over either/or, live-and-let-live over stand-or die, high spirits over low, energy over apathy, wit over dullness, jokes over homilies, good humor over jokes, good nature over bad, feeling over sentiment, truth over poetry, consciousness over explanations, tragedy over pathos, comedy over tragedy, entertainment over art, private over public, generosity over meanness, charity over murder, love over charity, irreplaceable over interchangeable, divergence over concurrence, principle over interest, people over principle.

  Marvin Mudrick

  Art, People, Feelings

  Marvin Mudrick (1981). “Nobody Here But Us Chickens”

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• Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.

  Irving Stone

  Men, People, Humanity

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• The energy and generosity of spirit of the people I meet everywhere I perform is what inspires me to make music and through the music, we share a bond even if we may never have met. As long as there is a single person who may find something they are looking for or a feeling they need in my music, I will continue to write for that person

  Emma Hewitt

  Writing, Long, People

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• The House, being strong, should be generous ... but the constituents have a right to more than generosity.... The law gives me my seat. In the name of the law I ask for it. I regret that my personality overshadows the principles involved in this great struggle; but I would ask those who have touched my life, not knowing it, who have found for me vices which I do not remember in the memory of my life, I would ask them whether all can afford to cast the first stone ... then that, as best judges, they will vacate their own seats, having deprived my constituents of their right here to mine.

  Charles Bradlaugh

  Strong, Regret, Memories

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• My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.

  Maya Angelou

  Kindness, Trying, Enough

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• Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other from pride or fear, or from the fact that you cannot take your money with you to the other world.

  Martial

  Pride, Other Worlds, Different

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• With wisdom we shall learn liberality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Wisdom, Liberality

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.211, Penguin

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• Great spenders are bad lenders.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Money, Lenders

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, p.20, Nayika Publishing

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• A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.

  Herman Melville

  Ocean, Forests, Hammocks

  Herman Melville (1855). “Israel Potter: his fifty years of exile”, p.20

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• I do not know how wicked American millionaires are, but as I travel about and see the results of their generosity in the form of hospitals, churches, public libraries, universities, parks, recreation grounds, art museums and theatres I wonder what on earth we should do without them.

  William Lyon Phelps

  Art, Museums, Church

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• Mighty of heart, mighty of mind, magnanimous-to be this is indeed to be great in life.

  John Ruskin

  Heart, Mind, Magnanimous

  John Ruskin (1865). “Sesame and Lilies, etc”, p.105

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• Surely, 'tis one step towards acting well, to think worthily of our nature; and as in common life, the way to make a man honest, is, to suppose him soso here, to set some value upon ourselves, enables us to support the characterof generosity and virtue.

  Laurence Sterne

  Character, Men, Thinking

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• Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

  Hesiod

  Done, Half, Jars

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• Adolescence is the time to enlarge the natural sentiments of pity, friendship, and generosity, the time to develop an understanding of human nature and the varieties of human character, the time to gain insight into the strengths and weaknesses of all men and to study the history of mankind.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Strength, Time, Character

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• Where there's more of singing and less of sighing,
  Where there's more of giving and less of buying,
  And a man makes friends without half trying
  That's where the West begins.

  Arthur Chapman

  Friendship, Happiness, Men

  Estelle Philleo, Arthur Chapman (1920). “Out where the West Begins”

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• Generosity is also an act of freedom, a casting off of the constraints of prudence and self-interest.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Casting Off, Self, Interest

  "What A Shy Waitress Taught Me About Generosity" by Marilynne Robinson, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 2, 2013.

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• So often our sisters comfort others when their own needs are greater than those being comforted. That quality is like the generosity of Jesus on the cross. Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity!

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Agony, Empathy

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• Generosity is a practical expression of Love.

  Gary Inrig

  Expression, Practicals, Expressions Of Love

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• Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Kind, Shyness, Wealthy

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• When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Men, Littles, Honored

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• Art can never match the luxury and superfluity of Nature. In the former all is seen; it cannot afford concealed wealth, and is niggardly in comparison; but Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Art, Nature, Roots

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.124, Penguin

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• The cultivation of generosity is the beginning of spiritual awakening. Generosity has tremendous force because it arises from an inner quality of letting go. Being able to let go, to give up, to renounce, and to give generously all spring from the same source, and when we practice generosity ... we open up these qualities within ourselves.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Letting Go, Spiritual, Giving Up

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• Every great leader has a generosity gene.

  Jack Welch

  Leader, Great Leader, Genes

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• The trail of the serpent reaches into all the lucrative professions and practices of man. Each has its own wrongs. Each finds a tender and very intelligent conscience a disqualification for success. Each requires of the practitioner a certain shutting of the eyes, a certain dapperness and compliance, an acceptance of customs, a sequestration from the sentiments of generosity and love, a compromise of private opinion and lofty integrity.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Integrity, Work, Eye

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.238

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