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The old man had often praised his strength. He had always been generous in his praise. It was all he had to give. — Anonymous

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 guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that! — R.L. Stine

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

People are generally gracious and generous of spirit. — Del Suggs

Fate is never too generous even to its favorites. Rarely do the gods grant a mortal more than one immortal deed. — Stefan Zweig

Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms. — Sam Harris

Men brave and generous live the best lives, seldom will they sorrow; then there are fools, afraid of everything, who grumble instead of giving. — Anonymous

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

Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big — Lisa Genova

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

If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person. — Liz Murray

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

There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet. — Ian Wace

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

Rediscovering our own miraculousness is the most important, valuable, world-peacing, beauty-spreading, kind, and generous thing we can do. — Kelly Corbet

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

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

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

If I could sum up what the Bible teaches about giving in one statement, it would be this: Generous living produces emotional happiness. — Chip Ingram

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

By moderation one can be generous. — Laozi

I set out to write books, to be surrounded by generous, brilliant people, and to have great adventures. — Rebecca Solnit

Judy Garland was just so delicious in every way and just so honest and generous. — Judy Davis

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

I try not to speak about all the charities and people I help, because I believe we can only be truly generous when we expect nothing in return. — Muhammad Ali

Sometimes men are generous and forgiving, sometimes angry and blind. — Irving Stone

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

Political job is not a business job but it is a job of the people who have generous heart who want to help others with their views. — Khem Veasna

If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others. — Dalai Lama

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

Trees bend low with ripened fruit; clouds hang down with gentle rain; noble people bow graciously. This is the way of generous things. — Bhartrhari

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

We must be purposely kind and generous or we miss the best part of life's existence. — Horace Mann

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

It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny — Paulo Coelho

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

Natural freedoms are but just: There's something generous in mere lust. — John Wilmot

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

A generous heart and wholesome actions lead to greater peace. — Dalai Lama

America- often called the land of milk and honey- tends to be sweeter, more generous to those who don't rock the boat.

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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

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

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

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

You don't have to be rich to be generous. You have to be generous to be generous. — Johnny Hunt

Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone's life forever. — Margaret Cho

Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice. — Lord Acton

Americans are the nicest, most generous, and sentimental people on earth. Yet Americans have killed more unborn children than any nation in history. — Walker Percy

You are a universe, Kacey. I kept waiting to find the end of your love and beauty, the end of your generous heart. I never did. I never will. — Emma Scott

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

When I am generous, I enjoy blessings that far exceed whatever selfish pleasure I can grab for myself. — Lori Hatcher

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

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

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. — Carine Roitfeld

Blessed are the generous, for they know their riches belong to others. Blessed — Tony Hendra

Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at. — Laurence Sterne