Top 1200 Generous Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 11

The generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God.

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

Alec Baldwin is an incredible... I mean this guy is a tour de force when you talk about people that are generous and available and somebody you could approach and I have ideas.

The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe.

I tend to like people that are generous and give other people the benefit of the doubt.

[John Larroquette] is very generous as the star of a show. He always made sure that if we had a joke that didn't work or something, he'd fight for the other actors.

American husbands are the best in the world; no other husbands are so generous to their wives, or can be so easily divorced.

The American people are incredibly generous and even playful when you open yourself up and feed the media beast until it goes away satisfied.

A generous friend gives life for a friend let's rise above this animalistic behavior and be kind to one another

I find Donald Trump to be very kind and generous. I find him to have a great sense of humor.

Close your eyes and visualize the person you really want to be, who fits your own concepts of self-respect. If you can see the person clearly in the mirror of you mind, you surely will become that person.

Every generous illusion of youth leaves a wrinkle as it departs. Experience is the successive disenchanting of the things of life; it is reason enriched with the heart's spoils.

Grief starts to become indulgent, and it doesn't serve anyone, and it's painful. But if you transform it into remembrance, then you're magnifying the person you lost and also giving something of that person to other people, so they can experience something of that person.

The wrath that on conviction subsides into mildness, is the wrath of a generous mind.

The more generous you are, the easier and more satisfying and fun your life is. And it took me so long.

Our thoughts really do create our lives. They've done a lot of research showing if you're an optimistic, positive person you will be a healthier person than if you're a sad, depressed, negative person.

Narcissistic personalities usually do do better than you and me and the average person. We've always seen it in the office. The person who speaks up more in meetings, the person who's charismatic, who can sell an idea with more excitement and energy.

The truth is, the more kind and liberal a man is, the more generous will be the patronage bestowed upon him.

Capable, generous men do not create victims, they nurture victims.

Every time I got hurt, the person who treated me said that. 'It is more attractive to admit that you're in pain.' Because of that person, I learned how to speak with honesty. Without making calculations about what the other person's thinking.

Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?

We attempt to define a person, the most commonplace person we know, but he will not submit to bounds; some unexpected beauty of nature breaks out; we find he is not what we thought, and begin to suspect that every person exceeds our power of measurement.

No man of high and generous spirit is ever willing to indulge in flattery; the good may feel affection for others, but will not flatter them.

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

I have but one system of ethics for men and for nations - to be grateful, to be faithful to all engagements under all circumstances, to be open and generous, promoting in the long run even the interests of both

Creativity: Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

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

I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.

You can't put the blame squarely on one person. Casting couch is not just about one person who says 'come and compromise.' The other person is also willing to compromise. It's always a two-way street.

Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind.

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

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

People who are lazy may smoke pot and remain lazy. That is aging the person finding a drug to help one create the vegetable style the person wants, as the person cannot live in the real world.

If you give, it will be given to you. And I have found that generous people are blessed people.

I'm very generous, and I really want people to see that I am - that's really it.

If humility is always desirable, generous humility is still more so.

To mention it was to ask a favor and that as you were too generous, and as for her to ask was always to have, she wouldn't

Well, let me tell you something, Caveman. You are here on account of one person. If it wasn't for that person, you wouldn't be here digging holes in the hot sun. You know who that person is?" "My no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather.

I like chicken a lot because chicken is generous - that is to say, it's obedient. It will do whatever you tell it to do.

We think what Americans at the end of the day want to know is, if this person [a candidate] going to go out and be a fighter for me? Does this person understand my concerns, my issues, and will this person fight for me?

Be happy, be proud, be generous, be respectful, be proud to be French citizens.

You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. You can't be a jerk in order to be a good writer. You can't say, "I'm too busy writing to be political." You are one person. You are the same person in every aspect of your life, and you have to be a responsible person in every aspect of your life.

I mean, I like nice girls, and I like people who are generous.

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

Art is a human act, a generous contribution, something that might not work, and it is intended to change the recipient for the better, often causing a connection to happen.

At age 12, I was put on tranquilizers when I should have gotten help. There was nothing major and awful, I just didn't feel my family was supportive and emotionally generous

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

The casting process for 'Hate Mail' just got so difficult. Once you lock in one person and then you try to find the next person, you lose the first person and then the financing falls away.

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

I do think that it's important to understand what each person has coming into the relationship, and what each person expects from the relationship. I find it so interesting that so many people rush into the commitment of marriage, which is a legal contract, without knowing anything about what the expectations of the other person are, and they've not explained or articulated their expectations of the other person.

In all your relations to men be great, just, generous, courteous, and kindly. The great are never otherwise.

A father is a person who's around, participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person, someone for that young person to talk to, to share with, their ups and their downs, their fears and their concerns.

The more independent you want to be, the more generous you must be with yourself as a woman.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

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

In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.

You know, one day you look at the person and you see something more than you did the night before. Like a switch has been flicked somewhere. And the person who was just a friend is... suddenly the only person you can ever imagine yourself with.

It is not in everyone's power to secure wealth, office, or honors; but everyone may be good, generous, and wise.

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

We were able to provide housing to all who need it. We've had incredibly generous offers from alumni for housing.