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You have even more gifts than you realize. Promise me that you'll explore all of them and that you'll be generous with them.
— Julian Iragorri
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.
— Maya Angelou
Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed.
— Stefan Zweig
Aim to live a wild, generous, full, exciting life - blessing those around you and seeing the good in all.
— Bear Grylls
We are never so generous as when giving advice.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy's misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.
— Alexandre Dumas
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.
— Honore De Balzac
To create is to defy emptiness. It is generous, it affirms. To make is to add to the world, not subtract from it.
— Charlotte Wood
Be smart, be thoughtful, be generous.
— Ashton Kutcher
Man, like the generous vine, supported lives; the strength he gains is from the embrace he gives.
— Alexander Pope
The books - the generous friends who met me without suspicion - the merciful masters who never used me ill!
— Wilkie Collins
We all make choices, Cossack. Who we are in this world, what we do in it. Generous or selfish. Happy or sad. Good or evil. It's all down to choice.
— Anthony Horowitz
Be generous in nature and thought; for this wins respect and gives confidence and power.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Dear Teddy, you are without a doubt the best boyfriend in the world. You're kind. You're generous. You threaten to maim people for me. -- Billy
— Allan Heinberg
Any celebration meal to which guests are invited, be they family or friends, should be an occasion for generous hospitality.
— Julian Baggini
I'm married to a very generous woman.
— Steven A. Cohen
Once in a century a man may be ruined or made insufferable by praise. But surely once in a minute something generous dies for want of it.
— John Masefield
I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.
— Rod Stewart
While Israel is prepared to make generous compromises for peace, it cannot go back to the 1967 lines.
— Benjamin Netanyahu
I'm incredibly fortunate to have met the intelligent, generous, risk-taking, stimulating man to whom I am married. He's really amazing.
— Cate Blanchett
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
— Alexander Pope
A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.
— Idries Shah
I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
— Barbra Streisand
Be generous, kind and compassionate. These are true characteristics of successful people.
— Archie Lee
I set out to write books, to be surrounded by generous, brilliant people, and to have great adventures.
— Rebecca Solnit
If sacrifice is not the theme of my life, there's no sense telling the story.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Nothing is generous. New knowledge is a valuable commodity. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we are.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Giving, goodness and generosity expresses love.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
— George Eliot
A generous donor (who had no doubt lived a life that imperiled his mortal soul) had granted [the Sisters] more than one hundred waterfront acres.
— Kristin Hannah
lie first wi' you was as generous
— Diana Gabaldon
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. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
She's generous as an oil baron and loyal as a pit bull.
— Gayle Forman
Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.
— Victoria Justice
Oh, he thinks, if I were a better person. If I were a more generous person. If I were a less self-involved person. If I were a braver person.
— Hanya Yanagihara
The heart is a generous muscle.
— Sharon Salzberg
To give a generous hope to a man of his own nature, is to enrich him immeasurably.
— William Ellery Channing
The gentleman is generous and treats all men as his equals, especially those whom he feels to be inferior in rank and wealth.
— Hilaire Belloc
Human benevolence is totally unfair. We don't live in a kind or generous world, yet we are kind and generous.
— Rob Sheffield
Don't wait for other people to be loving, giving, compassionate, grateful, forgiving, generous, or friendly ... lead the way!
— Steve Maraboli
It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
Surely it is much more generous to forgive and remember, than to forgive and forget.
— Maria Edgeworth
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
— Robert Frost
Light is incredibly generous, but also gentle.
— John O'Donohue
We do not live an equal life, but one of contrasts and patchwork; now a little joy, then a sorrow, now a sin, then a generous or brave action.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
When our attitude towards ourselves is big, and our attitude toward others is generous and merciful, we attract big and generous portions of success.
— W. Clement Stone
Frankly, I was surprised at how generous the Japanese press has been to the idea of a foreigner running Sony.
— Howard Stringer
Selfless, generous, compassionate living is unassailable.
— Andy Stanley
A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough.
— Morton Blackwell
A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.
— Paul G. Hoffman
Ruger liked a touch of pain, I decided, so I did my best to crush him with my inner muscles. I'm generous that way.
— Joanna Wylde
America- often called the land of milk and honey- tends to be sweeter, more generous to those who don't rock the boat. Sarah Mullen — Erin Passons
What is offered from a generous heart should be accepted generously.
— Alexandre Dumas
A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
— Charles W. Pickering
I consider myself a significant supporter of any candidate I work for, and I am certainly generous, I think, with my own funds.
— Kenneth Langone
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
— Francesco Guicciardini
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever.
— Margaret Cho
When I am generous, I enjoy blessings that far exceed whatever selfish pleasure I can grab for myself.
— Lori Hatcher
Love wasn't a selfish thing. It was the kindest, most generous impulse a man could have.
— Susan Wiggs
The Islanders and their owner, Garth Snow, were very generous with me and let me do some cool stuff inside the organization.
— Kevin Connolly
Jesus calls us to a holiness that is positive, generous and openhearted. It's a difficult, daring challenge - do we accept it?
— Justin Welby
The proper use, then, of all the good gifts we have received is the free and generous sharing of those gifts with others. No
— John Calvin
We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
— Orison Swett Marden
The fountain of beauty is the heart and every generous thought illustrates the walls of your chamber.
— Francis Quarles
But thus it often is, that the constant friction of illiberal minds wears out at last the best resolves of the more generous.
— Herman Melville
The generous giver, demonstrating the nature of God by his behavior, can never outgive God.
— Max Anders
