Generosity Quotes - Page 22

I certainly embrace all the movement that's going on these days about equality for women and equal rights. In general, I would apply that to all nationalities and all races. I think we do need more awareness, generosity, and compassion than we have right now. But in terms of feminism, I embrace it wholeheartedly. Not in a kind of militant way, but I've always known that it matters.

We can all be stimulated to greater generosity by the known generosity of others.

A gift is acceptable according to what the giver has, not according to what he has not.

When we come into this life, we don't really own anything. And we own nothing when we leave. It is only a lease we have during our lifetime, and it is up to us to make the most of it.

It's hard to outdo the Lord in generosity.

When you speak about generosity, about something good we have inside ourselves, you're speaking to the majority.

If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.

When you give, therefore, take to yourself no credit for generosity, unless you deny yourself something in order that you may give.

Generosity is a practical expression of Love.

When a man has just been greatly honored and has eaten a little he is the most generous.

Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us.

Avarice is more directly opposed to thrift than generosity is.

The act of nutrition is not a purely physiological event... The family meal is a formality that cultivates in us... a capacity for sharing, generosity, thoughtfulness, a talent for civilized conversation.

All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.

I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel like a mystery that is inviting us in. Sagan's great art lesson for me was generosity of wonder and making curiosity contagious.

We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity.

I think mentoring is essential in life, both being a mentor to someone and being mentored, and I think that when you are mentored it inspires a generosity in you to mentor others and that I know is what happened with me, so for instance, the people that come through my studio to work for me, it's not good enough for me to just give them a paycheck.

Generosity is often the stalking horse of control.

...there is no resistance to the idea that what is foreign can be known. Can be understood. Can be held in the embrace of love that holds the Universe. Given this Earth on which we live and grow, given its beauty and generosity, its majesty and comfort, how can one doubt that one is loved? That in fact there is an abundance, not a scarcity of love? It is all anyone ever wants, really, I believe, and it is all around us as we starve.

Whenever I find a great deal of gratitude in a poor man, I take it for granted there would be as much generosity if he were a rich man.

A generous action is its own reward.

O heresy in fair, fit for these days, A giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise.

[It is not the purpose nor right of Congress] to attend to what generosity and humanity require, but to what the Constitution and their duty require.

Never lie under any circumstances.