Quotes with generosity

  • A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
  • Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
  • The sea - this truth must be confessed - has no generosity. No display of manly qualities - courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness - has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.
  • Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
  • 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.
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  • Kahlil Gibran Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Otto von Bismarck A really great man is known by three signs... generosity in the design, humanity in the execution, moderation in success.
    Otto von Bismarck
    German statesman and prime minister (1815 - 1898)
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  • Christian Nevell Bovee Every trait of beauty may be referred to some virtue, as to innocence, candor, generosity, modesty, or heroism. St. Pierre To cultivate the sense of the beautiful, is one of the most effectual ways of cultivating an appreciation of the divine goodness.
    Christian Nevell Bovee
    American writer
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  • Mignon McLaughlin We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
    The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981)
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Abdus Salam Alfred Nobel stipulated that no distinction of race or colour will determine who received of his generosity.
    Abdus Salam
    Pakistani theoretical physicist (1926 - 1996)
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  • Brendan Myers All our relationships are person-to-person. They involve people seeing, hearing, touching, and speaking to each other; they involve sharing goods; and they involve moral values like generosity and compassion.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • Bo Sanchez As much as I loved the model of St. Francis, I realized that I couldn't afford to be poor, because unlike St. Francis, I'm not celibate. I was enlightened that God's call to me was not poverty but generosity and simplicity. And I had to go back to the lesson I learned from my parents: that is, simplicity.
    Bo Sanchez
    Filippine author, lay pastor and entrepreneur (1966 - )
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • Tacitus Candor and generosity, unless tempered by due moderation, leads to ruin.
    Tacitus
    Roman senator and historian (56 - 117)
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  • Alistair Cooke 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
    British journalist (1908 - 2004)
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  • Horace Mann Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • Bob Keeshan Generosity has built America. When we fail to invest in children, we have to pay the cost.
    Bob Keeshan
    American television producer and actor (1927 - 2004)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Generosity is the flower of justice.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Jean de la Bruyère Generosity lies less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Sir Henry Taylor He who gives what he would as readily throw away, gives without generosity; for the essence of generosity is in self sacrifice.
    Sir Henry Taylor
    English dramatist and poet (1800 - 1886)
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  • Adam Smith Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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  • George H.W. Bush I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity... in all things, generosity.
    George H.W. Bush
    American politician and president (41st) (1924 - 2018)
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  • Oscar Wilde I think that generosity is the essence of friendship.
    The Devoted Friend
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Will Rogers I wonder if it isn't just cowardice instead of generosity that makes us give tips.
    Will Rogers
    American actor and humorist (1879 - 1935)
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