Top 1200 Being Generous Quotes & Sayings

Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

Compassion has nothing to do with achievement at all. It is spacious and very generous. When a person develops real compassion, he is uncertain whether he is being generous to others or to himself because compassion is enviromental generosity, without direction, without " for me" and without " for them". It is filled with joy, spontaneously existing joy, constant joy in the sense of trust, in the sense that joy contains tremendous wealth, richness.

If you are not generous when it's difficult, you will not be generous when it's easy. Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet.

You don't have to be rich to be generous. You have to be generous to be generous.

For the army is a school in which the miser becomes generous, and the generous prodigal; miserly soldiers are like monsters, but very rarely seen.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap. I promise you. It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.

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.

As creative people, we should be really conscious of being of service in our work, being as generous as we can.

The more compassionate you are, the more generous you can be. The more generous you are, the move loving friendliness you cultivate to help the world.

I do not subscribe to the 'Trump is crazy like a fox' thing. I think that's being too generous.

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.

Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.

I've always had a knowing that being kind is a lot more effective than being angry. And being generous has always been a characteristic I've had; whatever I've had, I've always been willing to give away. Those are best spiritual qualities.

People say, "You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous". Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.

If you take all the food aid, America is by far the most generous country. If you take the direct aid, we're very generous. But when you add on our private contributions - see, our tax system encourages private citizens to donate to organisations that, for example, help the folks in Africa. And when you take the combined effort of US taxpayers' money plus US citizens' donations, we're very generous. And we'll do more.

I don't know of a way to have a generous church without a generous pastor.

For me, one of the reasons I love this form - the personal essay form - is because it's a way of forming an intimacy with the reader. What I'm saying to the reader is: I'm going to tell you something; I'm going to be generous; I'm going to offer. The confession, on the other hand, is sort of an imposition because you're asking the reader to forgive you or somehow exonerate you or say, "Hey, I'm even worse." But what I'm interested in doing is being generous and offering a perspective or suggesting a way of thinking about something.

Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.

When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.

It's easy to be generous with money. Far harder to be generous with your time.

Generous people can become more generous as they become richer, giving away vast fortunes to worthwhile causes as Bill Gates and Warren Buffett are doing.

I love when I meet generous poets, and generous meaning nice people, who give to the poetry community, who do interviews, read other people's books, and talk about them, spread the...love, I guess. That means a lot to me.

Being generous is inborn; being altruistic is a learned perversity. No resemblance --

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful. And being generous. Everything else is crap!

Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless.

Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.

The only way to save our dreams is by being generous with ourselves.

We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need.

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

There is a difference between offering a service and being willing to serve. They may both include giving but only one is generous.

Don't ever be afraid of giving. Give. Give of your time, your forgiveness, your understanding, your love. Give of your money. Give to the creation, and you'll be given by the Creator. Be generous, and the Most Generous will be generous with you.

Being generous of spirit is a wonderful way to live.

A man who isn't generous with his money isn't generous with his love and affection.

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?

Share the wealth. Be generous with your joy. Give away what you most want. Be generous with your insights and delights.

I loved being in the room with Mamet as a director - he is the most generous, funny, delightful person to work for every day.

A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person

Working hard, and being thoughtful, and generous, and smart; it's a path to a better life.

Neither will the horse be adjudged to be generous, that is sumptuously adorned, but the horse whose nature is illustrious; nor is the man worthy who possesses great wealth, but he whose soul is generous.

America is a new kind of society that produces a new kind of human being. That human being—confident, self-reliant, tolerant, generous, future-oriented—is a vast improvement over the wretched, servile, fatalistic and intolerant human being that traditional societies have always produced.

People say, 'You're still breast-feeding, that's so generous.' Generous, no! It gives me boobs and it takes my thighs away! It's sort of like natural liposuction. I'd carry on breast-feeding for the rest of my life if I could.

Being generous and kindly in speech, doing a good turn for others, and treating all alike. One like this will be praised.

The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

Doing more and more with less and less is one form of being generous. In fact, the easiest way to become rich is by being generous.

The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap.

I remember when being liberal meant being generous with your own money.

The poor can't wait. Philanthropists needed to carry on being generous.

Your generosity is reflected in what you do with your own money, not in what you do with other people's money. If I give a lot of money to charity, then I am generous. If you give a smaller fraction of your money to charity, then you are less generous. But if you want to tax me in order to give my money to charity, that does not make you generous.

A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.

We need to be generous with the women following in our footsteps in the hope that they will be generous with us.

In addition to being an extraordinary actor, Bryan Cranston is a really generous guy and also very funny.

A mind that's open to everything means being peaceful, radiating love, practicing forgiveness, being generous, respecting all life, and most important, visualizing yourself as capable of doing anything that you can conceive of in your mind and heart.

Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love.

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

I believe in fighting with investors to reduce the amount of equity they get and then being as generous as you possibly can with employees.

I wonder why anyone would hesitate to be generous with their writing. I mean, if you really want to make a living, go to Wall Street and trade oil futures ... We're writers. We're doing something that is inherently a generous act. We're exposing ourselves to the muse and to the things that frighten us. Why do that if you're not willing to be generous? And paradoxically, almost ironically, it turns out that the more generous you are, the more money you make. But that's secondary. For me, the privilege of being generous is why I get to do this.

In working with Nick Cannon, he's such a generous guy, a generous actor, and he was very protective.

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

Being moderate with oneself and generous with others; this is what is meant by having a just relationship with money, by being free as far as money is concerned.

I must admit that I am not generous with weak people. It's not in my nature or in my personality. My parents were not generous with weak people, see?