Generous Quotes

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.

It was mind-blowing. It was a small place with 2,000 standing-up tickets. It's great to have your band back and working and playing again, people have been so generous.

A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

Enthusiasm is the divine particle in our composition: with it we are great, generous, and true; without it, we are little, false, and mean.

We're all generous, but with different things, like time, money, talent - criticism.

I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project.

Actors are very generous.

Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world.

Despite the generous rewards that state juries dole out, in many cases, victims receive less than 50 cents on the dollar in settlements with the lawyers taking the rest. This is not justice.

The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.

Leaders should be collaborative, modest, and generous.

Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!

I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.

She's generous to a fault - if it's her own.

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.

I've experienced huge kindness here, a great welcome and some very generous reviews without the snide social edge I often suffer from at home. I'm not patronized here either, which I much appreciate!

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.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.

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.

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.

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.