Generous Quotes

• I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Inspirational, Kindness, Life Lesson

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Rudyard Kipling's Short Stories: Short Story Collections”, p.165, 谷月社

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• Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Jan. 25-31)" by Alexandra Katehakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Grateful, Exercise, Religion

  Thomas Jefferson (1963). “The Thomas Jefferson Papers”, Dodd

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• If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

  Bob Hope

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

  Frank A. Clark

  Kindness, Real, Nice

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• Conrad Hilton was very generous in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5,000 Gideon Bibles.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Divorce, Gideon, Settlement

  "10 bizarre divorce settlements" by Ethan Trex, edition.cnn.com. January 04, 2010.

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  If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Dalai Lama, Victor Chan (2012). “The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights”, p.11, Random House

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• Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

  Barbara Bush

  Memorable, Generosity, Giving

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• When our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.

  W. Clement Stone

  Attitude, Generosity, Bigs

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1960). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.

  Margaret Cho

  Kindness, Suicidal, Reality

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• Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

  William E. Gladstone

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Honesty, Women

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.124

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• To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Gratitude, Generosity, Giving

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• If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

  Mark Twain

  Gratitude, Kindness, Compassion

  Mark Twain (2010). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.180, Univ of California Press

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• I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Selfish, Opportunity, People

  Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.83, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• A man who was generous with his wealth. It has been reported that during his lifetime, Carnegie gave away over $350 million of his money to help others.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Helping Others, Men, Generosity

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• Success may or may not mean that you've acquired a lot. It does mean that you have become a generous person.

  Robert H. Schuller

  Mean, Generosity, Doe

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• The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

  Henry Home, Lord Kames

  Love, Wise, Generosity

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• All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Ninety Nine, Generosity, World

  Anna Brownell Jameson (1877). “A commonplace book of thoughts, memories and fancies, original and selected”, p.27

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• One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential.

  Maya Angelou

  Motivational, Running, Courage

  "Pray It Forward: Daily Meditations" by Rowena Holloway, iUniverse, (p. 34), August 1, 2007.

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• Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency.

  Maya Angelou

  Courage, Practice, Bravery

  USA Today, March 5, 1988.

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• Who will be the happiest person?
  The one who brings happiness to others.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Being Generous, Persons, Generous Person

  Swami Satchidananda (1987). “The Golden Present: Daily Inspirational Readings”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Intellectual, Mind, Facts

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• My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.

  Naveen Jain

  Believe, Hard Work, Opportunity

  "Tips for Entrepreneurial Philanthropy" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2011.

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• 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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