Top 1200 Generous Person Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: "Indeed, an ignorant man who is generous is dearer to God than a worshipper who is miserly."

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

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

I really believe in my work and in no way think I'm taking advantage of anyone. I feel generous when selling my art.

Christmas is about giving. Be outrageously generous. Have fun, enjoy the process....then keep it up all year.

Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.

While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines...

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.

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.

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

Your life is the one place you have to spend yourself fully - wild - generous, drastic in an unrationed profligacy of self.

I know I learn a lot from the students in my class and I'm not just saying that to sound like some generous teacher.

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

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.

It is little the sign of a wise or good man, to suffer temperance to be transgressed in order to purchase the repute of a generous entertainer.

O Poverty, thy thousand ills combined Sink not so deep into the generous mind, As the contempt and laughter of mankind.

It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, "This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams", when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.

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

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.

Feed your brothers and sisters simply, graciously, with generous care, and you will secure a place in their heart.

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

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 must be for ourselves in the long run; the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.

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.

The way that I see third person is it's actually first person. Writing for me is all voice work. Third person narrative is just as character-driven as first person narrative for me in terms of a voice. I don't write very much in third person.

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

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

The poverty of the poor is not a call to generous relief action, but a demand that we go and build a different social order.

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.

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.

Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.

If there's age discrimination - and there may be - I've always felt that the person who discriminates is hurt more than the person being discriminated against, if the second person shucks it off and moves forward.

Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.

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

The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

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.

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.

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

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

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

Give up the idea of being a person, that is all. You need not become what you are anyhow. There is the identity of what you are and there is the person superimposed on it. All you know is the person, the identity - which is not a person - you do not know, for you never doubted, never asked yourself the crucial question: 'Who am I?'

Give a truly good person power, and they’re still a good person. Give a bad person power, and they’re still a bad person. The question is always about the person in between. The one that isn’t evil, or good, but just ordinary. You don’t always know what an ordinary person is like on the inside.

Be different, be altruistic. Be strange, work for others in response to their harm. Raise eyebrows, be generous without agenda.

I'm complicated, sentimental, lovable, honest, loyal, decent, generous, likable, and lonely. My personality is not split; it's shredded.

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.

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?

In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.

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.

The people in the decision-making positions need to be thinking differently about who to hire, and looking more unsparingly at their choices. Why give this person a break over that person? Why give this person a second chance over that person? I do think that's where gender comes into play.

To a generous mind few circumstances are more afflicting than a discovery of perfidy in those whom we have trusted.

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

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

I don't judge people by their sexual orientation or the color of their skin, so I find it really hard to identify someone by saying that they're a gay person or a black person or a Jewish person.

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

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

To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.

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.