Generous Quotes - Page 8

• Pop art is
  the American Dream, optimistic, generous, and naive!

  Robert Indiana

  Dream, Art, Optimistic

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• We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness... It's an interesting sort of impatience.

  Seth Godin

  Kindness, Interesting, Impatience

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• Generosity is not limited to the giving of material things. We can be generous with our kindness and receptivity. Generosity can mean the simple giving of a smile or extending ourselves to really listen to a friend. Paradoxically, even being willing to receive the generosity of others can be a form of generosity.

  Gil Fronsdal

  Kindness, Mean, Simple

  Gil Fronsdal (2008). “The Issue at Hand”, p.34, Insight Meditation Center

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• God's extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.

  Andy Stanley

  God, Christian, Religious

  Twitter post from Oct 26, 2014

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• A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Men, Rich, Rich Man

  Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group

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• We must have sweeping, generous immigration reform, make existing law- abiding Hispanics welcome. Most are hard working family people.

  Rupert Murdoch

  Hard Work, Law, People

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• We were able to provide housing to all who need it. We've had incredibly generous offers from alumni for housing.

  Noel Gallagher

  Able, Needs, Alumni

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• Hyun Joong hyung is totally a real man. He is very generous, easy to get along, and dependable. Sometimes, he would hide and cry secretly at night. He won’t tell others when he is sad about something. He’ll bear the sadness himself. He has a strong personality (he will not fall).

  Kim Kyu-jong

  Strong, Real, Fall

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• The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

  Alfred Armand Montapert

  Generosity, Greed, Quality

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• The outdoor Christmas lights, green and red and gold and blue and twinkling, remind me that most people are that way all year round--kind, generous, friendly and with an occasional moment of ecstasy. But Christmas is the only time they dare reveal themselves.

  Harland Miller

  Christmas, Light, Blue

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• A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.

  Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone

  Heart, Men, Generous Man

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• What middle-income Americans want most of all is a job. We need a generous safety net for the most vulnerable in our society, but for most people the biggest social accomplishment that we can help them achieve is a good-paying job.

  Joe Kyrillos

  Jobs, People, Safety

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• I have very, very few friends. I live in a very tight circle and emotionally I'm probably not as generous as I once was. In an average week I probably meet 150 new people and that's uncomfortable sometimes.

  Veronica Webb

  Average, Circles, People

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• A generous heart and wholesome actions lead to greater peace.

  Dalai Lama

  Heart, Action, Greater

  The Dalai Lama, Alexander Norman (2010). “Ancient Wisdom, Modern World: Ethics for the New Millennium”, p.77, Hachette UK

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• I will be satisfied to the extent that I see everything I have as a gift from God. Here is the truth: Everything you have – your money, talent, friendships, marriage, children, material possessions, health, home, bike, car, even the country you live in – is a gift from God that He had chosen out of His generous nature to give you.

  Warren W. Wiersbe

  Country, Children, Home

  Warren W. Wiersbe (2010). “Be Satisfied (Ecclesiastes): Looking for the Answer to the Meaning of Life”, p.7, David C Cook

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• You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.

  Maya Angelou

  Consistency, Have Courage, Merciful

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• Pryce, a veteran of Brazil and Baron Munchausen and a longtime Gilliam friend, bristles at the word chaos when applied to the Brothers Grimm set.] Terry knows what he wants, ... He's very demanding, but in a positive and generous way. And if you're up to it, it's very exciting. If you're not, you fall by the wayside.

  Jonathan Pryce

  Brother, Fall, Brazil

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• Sweeping gestures from the shoulder allow you to make generous marks, well suited to large scale work. You don't get anything simpler than this - I'm sure it is the way the cave men drew.

  Stan Smith

  Men, Caves, Gestures

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• Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully--wild, generous, drastic--in an unrationed profligacy of self ... And in that split second when you understand that you finally are about to die-to uncreate the world no time to do it over no more chances--that instant when you realize your conscious existence is truly flaring nova, won't you want to have used up all-all-the splendor that you are?

  Robin Morgan

  Self, World, Splits

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• There are some weaknesses that are peculiar and distinctive to generous characters, as freckles are to a fair skin.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Character, Skins, Weakness

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• Whether we are poor or rich or somewhere in between, we honor the Lord with all he has placed in our care. We open our hands to the poor and share the joy of generous Christian giving.

  Kimberly Hahn

  Christian, Hands, Giving

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• What can we surmise about the likelihood of someone's being caring and generous, loving and helpful, just from knowing that they are a believer? Virtually nothing, say psychologists, sociologists, and others who have studied that question for decade

  Alfie Kohn

  Caring, Knowing, Helpful

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• There is no virtue which does not rejoice a well-descended nature; there is a kind of I know not what congratulation in well-doing, that gives us an inward satisfaction, and a certain generous boldness that accompanies a good conscience.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Congratulations, Giving, Doe

  Michel de Montaigne (2013). “Michel de Montaigne: Selected Essays”, p.173, Courier Corporation

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• I can remember way back when a liberal was one who was generous with his money.

  Will Rogers

  Wisdom, Back When, Way

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling (1995). “Will Rogers Speaks: Over 1,000 Timeless Quotations for Public Speakers (writers, Politicians, Comedians, Browsers ...)”, M Evans & Company

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• And my wife is - you know my wife, Hanna Rosin - it's hard, there's no doubt. We have three kids, and it's a pain. I'm away a lot and it's hard on her, but she's been very generous about it and my kids have been very good about it, too. It also allows me when I'm Washington to be more intent with them.

  David Plotz

  Pain, Kids, Wife

  "How Does a Host of Working Work?". "Working" with Adam Davidson, www.slate.com. May 18, 2015.

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