Generous Quotes

It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.

In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

I think I am incredibly generous with how much I give to my projects, but that's my generosity with the job.

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.

It is right and natural that generous minds while in the twenties should think the books which try to reform the world's wrong the greatest of all.

We should be inspired by people... who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous.

Democracies, unlike dictatorships, are forgiving and generous, but they cannot survive unless they fight.

There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

I don't think I'm generous enough to be the straight guy. I sort of make my own way and make my own statement. Do I mind pushing myself forward? Not at all.

For generations, Americans who aren't rich have been generous and admiring of their wealthy compatriots - want a country where people who work hard can succeed, where the same rules apply to everyone. They expect to have their own shot at getting rich. But increasingly, they are seeing that the game is rigged.

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

But they are not going to take on Big Oil because Big Oil is very generous at campaign time, and this is all about the elections. They want to pretend that they are doing something meaningful.

Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.

They were very generous with me. Everybody was willing to talk about their particular accident, what they had to deal with and how they got back in touch with their competitors' spirit.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

I came not to your glorious shores to enjoy a happy rest - I came not to gather triumphs of personal distinction, but as a humble petitioner, in my country's name, as its freely chosen constitutional leader, to entreat your generous aid.

What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.

It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.

Everything is just better in California - the wine, the food, fruits and vegetables, the comforts of living. Even the instrumentalists are generous and curious. Everything is wonderful.

Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at.