Generous Quotes - Page 3

• Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.

  Hubert Van Zeller

  Character, Yield, Grace

  Hubert Van Zeller (1973). “Considerations”, Templegate Publishers

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• If humility is always desirable, generous humility is still more so.

  Rose Philippine Duchesne

  Humility, Stills, Ifs

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• I certainly like the actor to have as much lee-way as possible. In the same way that director Bong was generous enough to let me create, you have to do that for actors, as well, and let them use the tools they have, and part of that is their own brains and their own words.

  Kelly Masterson

  Brain, Directors, Tools

  Source: collider.com

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• Be as radiant as the sun, as healing as the rain, as generous as a tree.

  Michael Franti

  Rain, Healing, Tree

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• If our poor die of hunger, it is not because God does not care for them. Rather, it is because neither you nor I are generous enough. It is because we are not instruments of love in the hands of God. We do not recognize Christ when once again He appears to us in the hungry man, in the lonely woman, in the child who is looking for a place to get warm.

  Mother Teresa

  Lonely, Children, Men

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• The current health care takeover proposals feature a crucial payoff to Big Labor - a golden exemption from any tax on union members' generous health care benefits. The friends and patrons of Obama may be making out like bandits. But for everyone else, the Democrats' ideological bankruptcy comes at a nauseatingly steep price.

  Michelle Malkin

  Benefits, Care, Unions

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• We spoke to God about the children, and we were afraid to ask God for specific things. We thought that it might be too much. So we said to God 'Please give us a healthy child' and left it at that, not knowing that God is a generous God, but also has a sense of humor. And if you leave that much open for God, some wonderful jokes are going to come about.

  Bill Cosby

  Children, Knowing, Giving

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• ... Wild Bill had his faults, grievous ones, perhaps ... He would get drunk, gamble, and indulge in the general licentiousness characteristic of the border in the early days, yet even when full of the vile libel of the name of whiskey which was dealt over the bars at exorbitant prices, he was gentle as a child, unless aroused to anger by intended insults. ... He was loyal in his friendship, generous to a fault, and invariably espoused the cause of the weaker against the stronger one in a quarrel.

  Jack Crawford

  Children, Names, Indulge In

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• What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.

  Gillian Flynn

  Husband, Laughing, Wife

  Gillian Flynn (2012). “Gone Girl: A Novel”, p.109, Crown

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• Rejoicing is the essence of genuine worship. A sad face (apart from remorse for sin or regret concerning the pain of others) is an affront to a gracious and generous God.

  Max Anders

  Pain, Regret, Essence

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• Liberals love to strike generous, humanitarian poses with other people's lives.

  Ann Coulter

  People, Humanitarian, Strikes

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• The generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God.

  Max Anders

  Behavior, Giver, Demonstrating

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• I think of other artists as generous when I get inspired by their work. That's why I like curating. You don't want to take someone else's art and have your way with it. You've got to be respectful of them.

  Nate Lowman

  Art, Thinking, Want

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The great natures which are good, are above everything generous and don't begrudge the giving of themselves.

  Gustave Flaubert

  Giving

  Gustave Flaubert (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Gustave Flaubert (Illustrated)”, p.4157, Delphi Classics

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• Riches, in the hands of a man that is wise and generous, are good for something, but in the hands of a sordid, sneaking, covetous miser, they are good for nothing.

  Matthew Henry

  Wise, Men, Hands

  Matthew Henry (1839). “An Exposition of the Old and New Testament: Wherein Each Chapter is Summed Up in Its Contents: Job-Solomon's Song. 1839”, p.1012

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• There are good points about all... wars. People forget self. The virtues of magnanimity, courage, patriotism, etc., are called into life. People are more generous, more sympathetic, better, than when engaged in the more selfish pursuits of peace.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Selfish, War, People

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• Scott has to be one of the most talented artists I've ever seen. He really captures his subjects in a unique way. He is extremely generous as well. How many artists are willing to donate some of their best works to charity? The Texas Sports Hall of Fame has benefited greatly from Medlock's donated paintings, which are the cornerstones of our auction!

  Bob Lilly

  Sports, Artist, Unique

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• While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines...

  Benjamin Netanyahu

  Israel, Lines, Compromise

  "US Israel talks on Palestine". "AM" with Jane Cowan, www.abc.net.au. May 21, 2011.

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• Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit would diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country; but I despair of seeing it.

  George Washington

  Country, Views, People

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1835). “Writings: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts”, p.163

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• And as it is the most generous souls who have most gratitude, it is those who have most pride, and who are most base and infirm, who most allow themselves to be carried away by anger and hatred.

  Rene Descartes

  Gratitude, Pride, Hatred

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• I think that our whole country needs to have more love and compassion for all children. All life is valuable and a gift from God. Pregnancy is not something that "just happens." Pregnancy is a gift from God. I think it is God telling us "OK, you are responsible enough to raise this new young life that I, God, am going to give you." And for people who can't conceive children, God may be asking you for an even more generous response - to adopt and raise a child.

  Kim Alexis

  Country, Children, Pregnancy

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• Is it not amazing that at a time when the rights of humanity are defined and understood with precision, in a country, above all others, fond of liberty-that in such an age and in such a country we find men professing a religion the most humane, mild, gentle and generous, adopting a principle as repugnant to humanity as it is inconsistent with the Bible, and destructive to liberty?

  Patrick Henry

  Country, Men, Rights

  Patrick Henry (2007). “Patrick Henry in his speeches and writings and in the words of his contemporaries”, Warwick House Publishing

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• I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both

  Thomas Jefferson

  Running, Gratitude, Grateful

  Thomas Jefferson (1861). “Correspondence”, p.135

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• The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Work, Land, Giving

  Abraham Lincoln, Mario Matthew Cuomo, G. S. Boritt (2004). “Lincoln on Democracy”, p.161, Fordham Univ Press

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• We want a society in which we are free to make choices, to make mistakes, to be generous and compassionate. That is what we mean by a moral society - not a society in which the State is responsible for everything, and no one is responsible for the State.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mistake, Mean, Compassion

  1977 Speech, Zurich University, 14 Mar.

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