Generous Quotes - Page 9

• 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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• Precise, graceful, and generous, the poems in SuperLoop, seem to be born out of a deep, careful attention and a profound compassion. Sometimes the quiet observer, sometimes the kid in the center of the messed-up carnival, these poems are the fireflies you’ve missed all winter, the longed-for return of the bees. Unaffected and inherently hopeful, Callihan’s work is as merciful as it is moving.

  Ada Limon

  Moving, Kids, Firefly

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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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• What great profit you gain from God when you are generous! You give a coin and receive a kingdom; you give bread from wheat and receive the Bread of Life; you give a transitory good and receive an everlasting one. You will receive it back, a hundred times more than you offered.

  Thomas of Villanova

  Faith, Inspiration, Bread Of Life

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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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• The most constant, the most powerful, and the most generous of all my enemies.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Powerful, History, Enemy

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• He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

  Richard Savage

  Stupid, Race, Faces

  Richard Savage (1775). “The Works of Richard Savage, Esq., Son of the Earl Rivers: With an Account of the Life and Writings of the Author”, p.91

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• ...a pie so delicate, so luscious, that I hope to be propped up on my dying bed and fed a generous portion. Then I think that I should refuse outright to die, for life would be too good to relinquish.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Thinking, Delicate Life, Pie

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (1996). “Cross Creek Cookery”, p.174, Simon and Schuster

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• Be generous with your time and your resources and with giving credit and, especially, with your words. It's so much easier to be a critic than a celebrator. Always remember there is a human being on the other end of every exchange and behind every cultural artifact being critiqued. To understand and be understood, those are among life's greatest gifts, and every interaction is an opportunity to exchange them.

  Maria Popova

  Motivational, Opportunity, Giving

  "Happy Birthday, Brain Pickings: 7 Things I Learned in 7 Years of Reading, Writing, and Living". www.brainpickings.org. October 23, 2013.

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• Be kind, be loving, be generous. Give of yourself, give of your time and you'll be free. It's the oldest secret, the one thats most often forgotten - and that is to have fun through giving.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Fun, Yoga

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• Alec Baldwin is an incredible... I mean this guy is a tour de force when you talk about people that are generous and available and somebody you could approach and I have ideas.

  Kate Hudson

  Mean, Ideas, People

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• There is a beautiful and life-enhancing alternative outlook that offers insight, consolation, inspiration and meaning, which has nothing to do with religion, and everything to do with the best, most generous, most sympathetic understanding of human reality.

  A.C. Grayling

  Beautiful, Inspiration, Reality

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• We are driven by self-interest, it’s necessary to survive. But we need wise self-interest that is generous and co-operative, taking others’ interests into account. Co-operation comes from friendship, friendship comes from trust, and trust comes from kind-heartedness. Once you have a genuine sense of concern for others, there’s no room for cheating, bullying or exploitation.

  Dalai Lama

  Wise, Bullying, Cheating

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• Generous in spirit, richly poetic, and packed with memorable characters.

  Lawrence Millman

  Memorable, Character, Spirit

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• A great destiny needs a generous diet.... What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Destiny, People, Needs

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• The gods, (if gods to goodness are inclined If acts of mercy touch their heavenly mind), And, more than all the gods, your generous heart, Conscious of worth, requite its own desert!

  John Dryden

  Heart, Mind, Desert

  John Dryden (1808). “The Works of John Dryden Now First Collected ...”, p.255

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• The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.

  Gustavo Gutiérrez

  Inspirational, Change, Order

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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

  Generosity, Deeds, Taught

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

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• What is good looking, as Horace Smith remarks, but looking good? Be good, be womanly, be gentle,-generous in your sympathies, heedful of the well-being of all around you; and, my word for it, you will not lack kind words of admiration.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Admiration, Kind, Looking Good

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1845). “The Stranger in Lowell”, p.113

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• Press bravely onward! - not in vainYour generous trust in human kind;The good which bloodshed could not gainYour peaceful zeal shall find.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Peaceful, Kind, Bloodshed

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.98

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• She [Monica Vitti] was a great actress, but a very difficult person. I am not in contact with her at the moment because she is very sick. Not a generous woman, I have to say. I don't see her much.

  Giovanna Cau

  Sick, Actresses, Moments

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Time, which gnaws and diminisheth all things else, augments and increaseth benefits; because a noble action of liberality, done to a man of reason, doth grow continually by his generous thinking of it and remembering it.

  Francois Rabelais

  Men, Thinking, Noble

  Francois Rabelais “Gargantua and Pantagruel: Five Books of the Lives, Heroic Deeds and Sayings of Gargantua and his Son Pantagruel”, Library of Alexandria

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• Not every hour, nor every day, perhaps, can generous wishes ripen into kind actions; but there is not a moment that cannot be freighted with prayer.

  William Mountford

  Prayer, Wish, Action

  William Mountford (1858). “Euthanasy, Or Happy Talk Towards the End of Life”, p.146

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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, Generosity, Students

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• There is no finer revenge than that which others inflict on your enemy. Moreover, it has the advantage of leaving you the role of a generous man.

  Cesare Pavese

  Revenge, Men, Generous Man

  Cesare Pavese (1961). “This Business of Living: Diary: 1935-1950”, London : P. Owen

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