Generous Quotes

• I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

  Rudyard Kipling

  Inspirational, Kindness, Life Lesson

  Rudyard Kipling (2015). “Rudyard Kipling's Short Stories: Short Story Collections”, p.165, 谷月社

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• Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be true, just, firm, orderly, courageous, etc. Consider every act of this kind as an exercise which will strengthen your moral faculties and increase your worth.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Grateful, Exercise, Religion

  Thomas Jefferson (1963). “The Thomas Jefferson Papers”, Dodd

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• Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Motivational, Inspiring

  "Weekly Meditations for Healthy Sex (Jan. 25-31)" by Alexandra Katehakis, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 25, 2013.

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• If you haven't got any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

  Bob Hope

  Life, Happiness, Success

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• We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Order, Generosity, Giving

  Orison Swett Marden (2015). “Be Good To Yourself (Unabridged): Appreciate the Marvelousness of the Human Mechanism: How to Keep Your Powers up to the Highest Possible Standard, How to Conserve Your Energies and Guard Your Health”, p.55, e-artnow

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• Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.

  Frank A. Clark

  Kindness, Real, Nice

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• 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

  Attitude, Generosity, Bigs

  Napoleon Hill, W. Clement Stone (1960). “Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• Conrad Hilton was very generous in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5,000 Gideon Bibles.

  Zsa Zsa Gabor

  Divorce, Gideon, Settlement

  "10 bizarre divorce settlements" by Ethan Trex, edition.cnn.com. January 04, 2010.

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• The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Generosity, Heaven, Thrones

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  If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

  Dalai Lama, Victor Chan (2012). “The Wisdom of Compassion: Stories of Remarkable Encounters and Timeless Insights”, p.11, Random House

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• Giving frees us from the familiar territory of our own needs by opening our mind to the unexplained worlds occupied by the needs of others.

  Barbara Bush

  Memorable, Generosity, Giving

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

  Margaret Cho

  Kindness, Suicidal, Reality

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• Think of yourself as a role model for others-showing that you can be kind, generous, loving, and rich!

  T. Harv Eker

  Self Esteem, Positive Thinking, Generosity

  FaceBook post by T. Harv Eker from Dec 18, 2013

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• There is a greatness in being generous, and there is only simple justice in satisfying creditors. Generosity is the part of the soul raised above the vulgar.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  Simple, Greatness, Generosity

  Oliver Goldsmith (1856). “The Works of Oliver Goldsmith: Comprising His Poems, Comedies, Essays, and Vicar of Wakefield”, p.182

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• All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called 'Facts'. They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Intellectual, Mind, Facts

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• The sexiest thing in the entire world is being really smart. And being thoughtful and being generous. Everything else is crap.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Smart, Thoughtful, World

  "Ashton Kutcher Channels Steve Jobs In The Best 'Teen Choice Awards' Acceptance Speech Ever". Ashton Kutcher's acceptance speech for Teen Choice Awards at Gibson Amphitheatre in Los Angeles, www.businessinsider.com. August 11, 2013.

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  One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Inspiring

  "Pray It Forward: Daily Meditations" by Rowena Holloway, iUniverse, (p. 34), August 1, 2007.

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• When you win and the other fellow loses, what do you see? A losing face. There is great joy in losing and making the other person win and have a happy face. Who will be the happiest person? The one who brings happiness to others.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Winning, Joy, Faces

  Swami Satchidananda (1987). “The Golden Present: Daily Inspirational Readings”, Integral Yoga Dist

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• One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Relationship, Thank You, Giving

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• Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!

  William Arthur Ward

  4th Of July, Generosity, Losing Yourself

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• To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.

  Edith Wharton

  Wisdom, Firm, Knows

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• Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

  William E. Gladstone

  Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

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• Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

  Alexander Pope

  Wise, Honesty, Women

  Alexander Pope, Alexander Chalmers (1807). “A Supplementary Volume to the Works of Alexander Pope, Esq: Containing Pieces of Poetry, Not Inserted in Warburton's and Warton's Editions : and a Collection of Letters, Now First Published”, p.124

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• My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.

  Naveen Jain

  Believe, Hard Work, Opportunity

  "Tips for Entrepreneurial Philanthropy" by Naveen Jain, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 23, 2011.

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• I am a generous man, by nature, and far more trusting than I should be. Indeed. The real world is risky territory for people with generosity of spirit. Beware.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Real, Men, Generous Man

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.148, Pan Macmillan

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