Generous Quotes

Your generous part in my liberation is taken by the world for the revelation of the fact, that the United States are resolved not to allow the despots of the world to trample on oppressed humanity.

It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

I think, describing Elvis for me would be a very generous king. He was the king of rock and roll, will always be. He's whats made it possible for everyone to be performers and to do the things they do now.

It is safest to be moderately base - to be flexible in shame, and to be always ready for what is generous, good, and just, when anything is to be gained by virtue.

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

It is always dangerous to generalize, but the American people, while infinitely generous, are a hard and strong race and, but for the few cemeteries I have seen, I am inclined to think they never die.

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

People are people the world over. Some are good, some bad, some greedy and some generous. Nations are like people and act the same way.

I'm very generous.

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

We remember Kurt for what he was: caring, generous and sweet.

The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.

In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

In the past the publishers I've worked with have been extremely generous. And in almost every case, have been people who believed in the work rather than the sales and marketing.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

We are the most powerful nation in the world, but we're not the only nation in the world. We are not the only people in the world. We are an important people, the wealthiest, the most powerful and, to a great extent, generous. But we are part of the world.

The first Victoria's Secret model I ever met was Adriana Lima, and she was so nice to me. She was very generous and very nurturing. She made sure people talked to me!

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.

Chefs, as a whole, say yes to any project, fundraiser, or tasting because they have such a generous spirit.

I am married to the most amazing, generous and beautiful human being and it has been hard on him because from the outside if you look at it it's just all about me.

Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.

Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

Habituated from our Infancy to trample upon the Rights of Human Nature, every generous, every liberal Sentiment, if not extinguished, is enfeebled in our Minds.