Top 1200 Generous Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

When somebody teaches you to love something, you never forget that! It's such a generous thing to do.

Money doesn't make you special, it makes you lucky. Be generous, be crazy, be outrageous.

I've never tried to measure myself on any scale. A person is more multifaceted than the label they often get stuck with. On the other hand someone's whole behaviour allows you to characterise them in a certain way. This person has liberal convictions, that person has conservative ones, this person is a radical socialist, and so on.

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

If you have a good self-esteem, you can be generous, you can give back and you can be productive in the world.

He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.

To the generous mind the heaviest debt is that of gratitude, when it is not in our power to repay it.

In Los Angeles, the jury in the Reginald Denny Beating trial, after much thinking, concludes, that Person A is not necessarily trying to kill Person B just because Person A happens to very deliberately bash Person B's skull in with a brick. The verdict is applauded by scientists at the Tobacco Institute.

Why do we call all our generous ideas illusions, and the mean ones truths?

I admit I'm a miser! The most generous thing I've done is get married!

My mum and mad were both very generous, encouraging parents.

I have a feeling that being in love sometimes means the projection of your desires onto another person. The important thing is that you like the other person, respect the other person and want to raise children with the other person.

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

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

Every decision that affects our lives will be made by the person who has the power to make that decision, not the 'right' person or the 'smartest' person or the 'best' person. Make peace with this fact.

I have found God to be cordial and generous and in every way easy to live with.

I've always been generous and like giving to charities and people in need.

I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.

Fashion is life-enhancing, and I think it's a lovely, generous thing to do for other people.

It's always impressive when talented comedians are easy laughers or generous with their laughs.

After having won a scepter, few are so generous as to disdain the pleasures of ruling.

My mom has always been so generous and so sensitive and so vulnerable and yet exudes so much strength.

If you have not had direct firsthand experience of loving a category of person - a person of a different race, a profoundly religious person, things that are real stark differences between people - I think it is very hard to dare, or necessarily even want, to write fully from the inside of a person.

If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.

A person who loves and kisses a tree is a normal person; a person who hates and cuts a tree is an abnormal person.

A generous heart and wholesome actions lead to greater peace.

A generous spirit is as eloquent in acknowledging benefits as it is bounteous in bestowing them.

The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it.

I have some tremendous, tremendously loving, generous friends all over the world.

The commands of democracy are as imperative as its privileges and opportunities are wide and generous. Its compulsion is upon us.

No generous mind delights to oppress the weak, but rather to cherish and protect.

Perfect can't possibly be the goal, we're left with generous, important and human instead.

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

Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.

Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.

What a generous thing that is, I realize, for a husband to try to make his wife laugh.

Approach life knowing there will be plenty to go around. Be generous.

My wife is unusually kind and generous, but she's no fool. You don't mess with her.

[My early performance work] started by being the activity of a person, any person, like any other - but once that person became photographed it became a specialized person, the object of a personality cult.

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.

Algebra is generous; she often gives more than is asked of her.

Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.

Try to live with a generous heart. Doing anything else is too hard.

I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.

Be kind and generous to your fellows, but hard and relentless with yourself.

You don't marry one person; you marry three: the person you think they are, the person they are, and the person they are going to become as the result of being.

It is always so pleasant to be generous, though very vexatious to pay debts.

Cyndi Lauper was hilarious and generous, someone I'd loved from childhood who didn't disappoint.

I am saddened when I hear these words -this is not the person I knew - because those words objectify the person suffering from Alzheimer's. When you objectify a person you also dehumanize them. Once dehumanized the person becomes a villain.

A singer is someone who puts out an album. That's a very generous description.

Jeremy tried to be an interesting person. The trouble was that he was the kind of person who, having decided to be an interesting person, would first of all try to find a book called How to Be An Interesting Person and then see whether there were any courses available.

I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.

The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it.

My parents made me who I am. They are kind, generous, loving people.

I also found it funny to think about blackness as the second person. That was just sort of funny. Not the first person, but the second person, the other person.

A sufficiently great and generous trust could never be abused.

If a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful. If a person does not know which direction they want to go in life, then that person is a failure.

What I see is trying to make sure that everybody thinks you have more than what you actually have. What’s the point if you actually don’t have it? If you don’t have it, then you don’t have it. Have what you have. Enjoy that . . . The craft is everything. Don’t be afraid of not being the wealthiest person in the room. Be the smartest person in the room. Be the slickest person in the room. Be the most creative person in the room. Be the most entertaining person in the room. Just be in the room.

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

It is the ignorant person who seeks his or her own ends at the expense of the greater whole. It is the ignorant person, therefore, who is the selfish person. The truly wise person is never selfish.