Quotes with generosity

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  • Kofi Annan Ignorance and prejudice are the handmaidens of propaganda. Our mission, therefore, is to confront ignorance with knowledge, bigotry with tolerance, and isolation with the outstretched hand of generosity. Racism can, will, and must be defeated.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
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  • John F. Kennedy In a time of domestic crisis men of good will and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.
    Civil Rights Address, 11-06-1963
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Alan Cohen Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw 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.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Emma Goldman No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • George Orwell One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Albert Camus Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
    Original: La vraie générosité envers l'avenir consiste à tout donner au présent.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Jean-Paul Sartre The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity.
    Jean-Paul Sartre
    French writer, philosopher and Nobel laureate in literature (1964) (1905 - 1980)
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  • Joseph Conrad 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.
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Ban Ki-moon The U.N.'s humanitarian agencies rely on charitable donations from the public as well as the generosity of governments to continue their lifesaving work in response to natural disasters, armed conflicts and other emergencies.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Confucius To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
    Confucius
    Chinese philosopher (551 - 479)
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  • Albert Camus Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Valor, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule - these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Mignon McLaughlin We would all like a reputation for generosity and we'd all like to buy it cheap.
    Mignon McLaughlin
    American writer, editor (1913 - 1983)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Francois de la Rochefoucauld What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.
    Francois de la Rochefoucauld
    French writer (1613 - 1680)
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  • Jonathan Swift Wherever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Bill Shuster While America has always been and always will be a safe harbor for those being persecuted by tyrannical governments we must be vigilant to ensure those individuals are not taking advantage of America's generosity and good will.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Thomas Fuller Lavishness is not generosity.
    Thomas Fuller
    English preacher and writer (1608 - 1661)
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