Magnanimity Quotes
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No man loses ever on a lower level by magnanimity on a higher.
— Henry David Thoreau
You might curb your magnanimity, and be more of an artist, and load every rift of your subject with ore.
— John Keats
To be great in our times too often means to have great prosperity and no moral magnanimity at all.
— Cornel West
War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized.
— Marianne Moore
I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.
— Jim Broadbent
One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield.
— Victor Hugo
When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.
— Geoffrey Wood
Never expect justice from a vain man; if he has the negative magnanimity not to disparage you, it is the most you can expect.
— Washington Allston
Whatever happened to "In victory, magnanimity; in defeat, defiance." So said Frederick the Great.
— George Carlin
Let us bear with magnanimity whatever it is needful for us to bear.
— Seneca The Younger
Magnanimity is sufficiently defined by its name, nevertheless one can say it is the good sense of pride, the most noble way of receiving praise.
— Francois De La Rochefoucauld
You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In a contest with a weaker party it is more honorable to yield than to force concession. Magnanimity becomes the strong.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
In forgiving an injury be somewhat ceremonious, lest your magnanimity be construed as indifference.
— Ambrose Bierce
In magnanimity there is the same amount of egoism as in revenge, but egoism of a different quality.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The essence of friendship is entireness, a total magnanimity and trust.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Magnanimity will not consider the prudence of its motives.
— Luc De Clapiers
Amnesty, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish.
— Ambrose Bierce
Did ever a man try heroism, magnanimity, truth, sincerity, and find that there was no advantage in them? that it was a vain endeavor?
— Henry David Thoreau
Of all virtues, magnanimity is the rarest. There are a hundred persons of merit for one who willingly acknowledges it in another.
— William Hazlitt
In War: Resolution,In Defeat: Defiance,
In Victory: Magnanimity
In Peace: Good Will. — Winston S. Churchill
The most unpardonable privilege that men enjoy is their magnanimity.
— Germaine Greer
Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe.
— Virginia Woolf
Stars shine even for those who refuse to look up.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Magnanimity is above circumstance; and any virtue which depends on that is more of constitution than of principle.
— Jane Porter
Only lovers know the value and magnanimity of truth.
— Henry David Thoreau
The possession of arbitrary power has always, the world over, tended irresistibly to destroy humane sensibility, magnanimity, and truth.
— Frederick Law Olmsted
Magnanimity" means "greatness of soul,
— Eric Greitens
