Generosity Quotes - Page 4

• Live today the way you want to be remembered tomorrow.

  Dillon Burroughs

  Giving, Making A Difference, Live For Today

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• To give awkwardly is churlishness. The most difficult part is to give, then why not add a smile?

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Giving, Add, Why Not

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• We really want to thank everyone for their kindness and generosity, even those who aren't helping us directly.

  Mark Steel

  Kindness, Want, Helping

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• Fernand Point's philosophy instilled what cuisine is all about: generosity and hugeness of heart.

  Charlie Trotter

  Philosophy, Heart, Cuisine

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• Children must early learn the the beauty of generosity. They are taught to give what they prize most, that they may taste the happiness of giving.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Life, Children, Native American

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• Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness when bequeathed by those who, even alive, would part with nothing.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Essence, Selfishness, Alive

  Charles Caleb Colton (1866). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.38

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• Christmas is more that a time of festivities, family, and friends; it is a season of generosity, gladness, and gratitude.

  William Arthur Ward

  Gratitude, Family And Friends, Festivities

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• Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

  Alistair Cooke

  Spring, People, Serenity

  "Science, Religion, and the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence". Book by David Wilkinson, p. 3, August 1, 2013.

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• Generosity could be as contagious as the zombie plague as long as enough people were willing to be carriers.

  Jonathan Maberry

  Long, People, Zombie

  Jonathan Maberry (2012). “Tales of the Rot & Ruin: Rot & Ruin; Dust & Decay; Dead & Gone, a Rot & Ruin story; Flesh & Bone”, p.629, Simon and Schuster

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• I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.

  Will Rogers

  Giving, Charity, Wonder

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• True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Law, Sovereign, Reason

  Oliver Goldsmith (1854). “The works of Oliver Goldsmith, ed. by P. Cunningham”, p.165

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• Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.

  John French Sloan

  Art, Students, Nickels

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• Guys who dress up like Santa Claus, see, and give presents away do it because when they was young they must have did something bad and they feel guilty about it. So now they do something they think is good to make up for it, see?

  George Seaton

  Thinking, Giving, Guy

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• Give a bowl of rice to a man and you will feed him for a day. Teach him how to grow his own rice and you will save his life.

  Confucius

  Education, Kindness, Men

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• One can love any man that is generous.

  Leigh Hunt

  Men, Generous

  Leigh Hunt (1870). “Table-talk: To which are Added Imaginary Conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.32

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• The greatest source of America's generosity is not our government; it's the good heart of the American people.

  George W. Bush

  Heart, Government, America

  "Ex-presidents discuss aid drive". www.cnn.com. January 4, 2005.

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• ...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

  Brenda Ueland

  Writing, Performances

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• In art there is compassion, in compassion there is humanity, with humanity there is generosity and love,' Peters said.

  Gregory Peck

  Art, Compassion, Humanity

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• We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy.

  Dean Koontz

  Love, Kindness, Joy

  Dean Koontz (2012). “Fear Nothing”, p.368, Hachette UK

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• God blesses still the generous thought,And still the fitting word He speeds,And Truth, at His requiring taught,He quickens into deeds.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Deeds, Taught, Speed

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.133

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• Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

  W. H. Davies

  Sympathy, Food, Beer

  Shorter Lyrics of the 20th Century, Introduction

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• Here's where the real power of generosity comes in. Often, the more we give, the more we receive.

  Debbie Macomber

  Real, Giving, Collaboration

  Debbie Macomber (2009). “One Simple Act: Discovering the Power of Generosity”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

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• When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

  Gary Zukav

  Forgiving, Lenses, Looks

  Gary Zukav (2014). “The Seat of the Soul: 25th Anniversary Edition with a Study Guide”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Sir, I did not count your glasses of wine, why should you number up my cups of tea?

  Samuel Johnson

  Wine, Glasses, Numbers

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides and Johnson's Diary of a Journey Into North Wales”, p.363

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• So I would hope they would develop some kind of habit that involves understanding that their life is so full they can afford to give in all kinds of ways to other people. I consider that to be baseline spirituality.

  Susan Sarandon

  God, Spiritual, People

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