quotes about Generous
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Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
-- Albert Brooks -
Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.
-- Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery -
Live a wild, generous full, exciting life – blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
-- Bear GryllsSource : Bear Grylls (2012). “To My Sons: Lessons for the Wild Adventure Called Life”, p.6, David C Cook
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I have always worked and I would say I'm generous with money - if somebody needed anything I would always give it to them.
-- Britt Ekland -
My intent is to be generous of spirit and live with total integrity every day of my life.
-- Deepak Chopra -
Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
-- Francois de La Rochefoucauld -
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I'm feeling generous today. You get to live.
-- Frank Beddor -
The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!
-- Henry Home, Lord Kames -
If a man is prodigal, he cannot be truly generous.
-- James BoswellSource : James Boswell (1956). “London Journal, 1762-1763, as First Published in 1950 from the Original Manuscript”
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Children represent God's most generous gift to us.
-- James Dobson -
I spend my money on holidays and eating out, and it allows me to be generous.
-- James NesbittSource : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
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Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust.
-- John WilmotSource : 'A Ramble in St James' Park'
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I am now faced with mortality. Definitely not the most generous move.
-- Lance Loud -
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You don’t have to go looking for pictures. The material is generous. You go out and the pictures are staring at YOU.
-- Lee Friedlander -
I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other.
-- Marilyn Monroe -
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You can't be consistently fair, consistently generous, consistently just, or consistently merciful. You can be anything erratically, but to be that thing time after time after time, you have to have courage.
-- Maya Angelou -
A rich man can afford to be generous to many.
-- Mercedes McCambridgeSource : Mercedes McCambridge (1982). “The Quality of Mercy”, Berkley Publishing Group
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A generous figure is always nice!
-- Mimi ImfurstSource : TV Series "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars" ("It Takes Two", 2012), www.imdb.com. (2012-).
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We need to be just before we are generous, as we need shirts before ruffles.
-- Nicolas Chamfort -
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And what is more generous than a window?
-- Pat SchneiderSource : Pat Schneider (2013). “How the Light Gets In: Writing as a Spiritual Practice”, p.233, Oxford University Press
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It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.
-- Philibert Joseph Roux -
A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person
-- Quintilian -
A fair and generous woman is (at best) respected, but seldom loved.
-- Shulamith FirestoneSource : SHULAMITH FIRESTONE (1970). “THE DIALECTIC OF SEX”
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Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones ...
-- Sylvia Townsend Warner -
Men are likely to be quite generous, especially financially.
-- Warren Farrell -
How much easier is it to be generous than just.
-- JuniusSource : Junius (1806). “The Letters of Junius Complete: Interspersed with the Letters and Articles to which He Replied, and with Notes, Biographical and Explanatory; Also a Prefatory Enquiry Respecting the Real Author”, p.191
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I have never seen a generous man go bankrupt.
-- Junaid JamshedSource : Source: irusa.org
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