Top 1200 Generous Man Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

We`re the generous country, we`re the ones that open our doors to other countries, and in many cases we get taken advantage of because of that.

Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?

I'd never switch to man-to-man unless we were able to play good man-to-man. Ever.

I think musicians are always very generous in promoting anything good they hear. It's just kind of in our nature.

When you forgive somebody, when you are generous, when you withhold judgment, when you love and when you stand up to injustice, you are, in that moment, bringing heaven to earth.

Anger represents a certain power, when a great mind, prevented from executing its own generous desires, is moved by it.

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

If nature has been frugal in her gifts and endowments, there is the more need of art to supply her defects. If she has been generous and liberal, know that she still expects industry and application on our part, and revenges herself in proportion to our negligent ingratitude. The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds; and instead of vines and olives for the pleasure and use of man, produces, to its slothful owner, the most abundant crop of poisons.

Human beings are complicated. O.J. Simpson is a testament to that. Just because he stood on trial accused of murder doesn't mean he can't be a generous person.

You don't believe that your friend could ever do anything great. You despise yourself in secret, even – no, especially – when you stand on your dignity; and since you despise yourself, you are unable to respect your friend. You can't bring yourself to believe that anyone you have sat at table with, or shared a house with, is capable of great achievement. That is why all great men have been solitary. It is hard to think in your company, little man. One can only think 'about' you, or 'for your benefit', not 'with' you, for you stifle all big, generous ideas.

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

The skilful employer of men will employ the wise man, the brave man, the covetous man, and the stupid man.

I consider myself a significant supporter of any candidate I work for, and I am certainly generous, I think, with my own funds.

When we accept dismissive judgments of our community we stop having generous hope for it. We cease to be capable of serving its best interests.

It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

While this country has always had a generous immigration policy, we simply cannot condone individuals coming here illegally.

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

Alcohol is perfectly consistent in its effects upon man. Drunkenness is merely an exaggeration. A foolish man drunk becomes maudlin; a bloody man, vicious; a coarse man, vulgar.

... a large portion of those who demand woman suffrage are persons who have not been trained to reason, and are chiefly guided by their generous sensibilities.

Our parents were very generous, and they always encouraged us to find something we enjoyed and really get into it.

It is true that the U.S. could and should have been more generous as Russia made its painful transition to a market economy in the 1990s.

Why wouldn't you want to be the envy of your neighbors by being so good and so generous and so smart in how you use the power that you obviously have? That's my patriotism.

That man is formed for social life is an observation which, upon our first inquiry, presents itself immediately to our view, and our reason approves that wise and generous principle which actuated the first founders of civil government, an institution which hat its origin in the weakness of individuals, and hath for its end the strength and security of all; and so long as the means of effecting this important end are thoroughly known and religiously attended to government is one of the richest blessings to mankind, and ought to be held in the highest veneration

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

There is only one way in which one can endure man's inhumanity to man and that is to try, in one's own life, to exemplify man's humanity to man.

The Russians are extreme people: they are generous but crazy at the same time. They always have something to say, and I really like that.

That you are fair or wise is vain, Or strong, or rich, or generous; You must have also the untaught strain That sheds beauty on the rose.

We work with whoever is elected. Some will bring a more generous, open view of the world than others.

My teacher, Professor Smil Sommarin, was a fine pedagogue, a very generous person, and a great admirer of Kurt Wicksell.

You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.

Anger is a noble infirmity; the generous failing of the just; the one degree that riseth above zeal, asserting the prerogative of virtue.

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.

Every year the British public are so generous. It is really moving living in Britain. Fundraising is something we do tremendously well.

What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.

The main source of our wealth is goodness. The affections and the generous qualities that God admires in a world full of greed.

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return.

Those who were fortunate enough to have the support of their parents or the state must in turn be generous, in solidarity, especially in hard times.

Thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.

You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.

As most New Yorkers have done, I have given serious and generous thought to the state of my apartment should I get killed during the day.

Giving in a regular, disciplined, generous way-up to and beyond the tithe-is simply good sense in view of the promises of God.

Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones.

I think the best actors are the most generous, the kindest, the greatest people and at their worst they are vain, greedy and insecure.

Goodness is generous and diffusive; it is largeness of mind, and sweetness of temper,--balsam in the blood, and justice sublimated to a richer spirit.

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

I'm a generous host, but I'm a difficult and interfering guest. When I go around to other people's houses and they're cooking, I'm always telling them what to do.

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

If I could be generous and move forward and spread my feelers business-wise and also creatively, that's the best position to put myself in.

A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough.

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.

While tenderness of feeling and susceptibility to generous emotions are accidents of temperament, goodness is an achievement of the will and a quality of the life.

I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous from the grassroots up, nations in the world.

It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them — the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas.

By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

Steak and its accompaniments - wine, vegetables, potatoes and generous desserts - is a primal source of pleasure to which many people can relate.

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

I don't see why, if you look at how the Australian culture and psyche is, that we can't be amongst the most generous, from the grassroots up, nations in the world.