Generous Quotes - Page 23

• Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

  Max Irons

  Kindness, Healing, Generous Spirit

  "Face Time | Max Irons". Interview with Tina Turnbow, tmagazine.blogs.nytimes.com. February 2, 2012.

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• Americans are the most generous country on the planet. I've worked in Europe, I've worked in Australia. There is no where else where you get absolutely no attitude for being a foreigner. If you do your job well, they embrace you.

  Hugh Jackman

  Country, Jobs, Attitude

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• Guys who are charismatic and fun-loving and sweet and generous are the ones I want to date.

  Victoria Justice

  Sweet, Fun, Guy

  "Exclusive Victoria Justice Interview". www.seventeen.com. March 9, 2011.

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• I know people think we drive around in these nice cars and we do whatever we want and our parents will pay our credit cards, but that's not the case. Sure, my parents were generous; I got a nice car at 16, but at 18 I was cut off. I've worked really hard. I opened the store myself.

  Kim Kardashian

  Nice, Cutting, Thinking

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• I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.

  John F. Kennedy

  Daddy, Wire, Politics

  Remarks at Gridiron Dinner,Washington, D.C., 15 Mar. 1958.

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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. I promise you. It's just crap that people try to sell to you to make you feel like less. So don't buy it. Be smart. Be thoughtful and be generous.

  Ashton Kutcher

  Smart, Thoughtful, People

  "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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• In the final analysis there is no other solution to man's progress but the day's honest work, the day's honest decision, the day's generous utterances, and the day's good deed.

  Clare Boothe Luce

  Business, Men, Decision

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• I think I'm probably a very sad man wrapped in a very joyful package, and I think I'm very resilient, and I think I'm quite generous, sometimes to a fault. And I'm very bad with money, but I don't see that too much of a flaw.

  Dave Matthews

  Men, Thinking, Too Much

  "Q&A with Dave Matthews ahead of his 'concert and conversation' with the Dalai Lama". Interview with Marian Liu, www.seattletimes.com. April 11, 2008.

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• It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Independent, Dignity Of Work, Wealth

  W. Somerset Maugham (2016). “Of Human Bondage (Diversion Classics)”, p.343, Diversion Books

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• A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.

  Debi Mazar

  Hero, People, Giving

  "Mazar helps Los Angeles homeless get back on their feet". Interview with Denise Quan, www.cnn.com. October 12, 2010.

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• The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Inspiring, Men, Majority

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• The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Courage, Navy, Virtue

  Attributed to "Essais" by Michel de Montaigne, 1595.

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• I've read stories of slave owners who were very generous. They didn't keep them in shackles, they didn't whip the slaves, they built schools and churches for them, free housing, free food, free everything. It's wrong. No matter how nice you make it look, it's wrong.

  Michael Moore

  Nice, School, Slave Owners

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• I had been offered fellowships to enter as a graduate student at either Harvard or Princeton. But the Princeton fellowship was somewhat more generous, since I had not actually won the Putnam competition... Thus Princeton became the choice for my graduate study location.

  John Forbes Nash

  Choices, Competition, Fellowship

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• Communicated in the right way, Judeo-Christian philosophy and the religions that uphold it bind a citizenry together in pursuit of a just and generous society.

  Bill O'Reilly

  Christian, Philosophy, Together

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• The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.

  Gary Oldman

  Mistake, Jewels, America

  "Gary Oldman on life, the universe, and everything". Interview with Laremy Legel, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2011.

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• A generous basic state pension is the least a civilized society should offer those who have worked hard and saved through their whole lives.

  George Osborne

  States, Should, Whole Life

  "George Osborne's speech to the Conservative party conference in full". www.theguardian.com. October 4, 2010.

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• A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.

  Charles W. Pickering

  Political, Healthy, Society

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• Romney is a good, intelligent, extraordinarily generous man who put on a great fight. But he didn't understand the country or the people he sought to lead, and that is why he lost.

  John Podhoretz

  Country, Fighting, Intelligent

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• The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Fire, World, Taught

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• The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

  Dennis Prager

  Wise, People, Facts

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• Sure, I have friends, plenty of friends, and they all come around wantin' to borrow money. I've always been generous with my friends and family, with money, but selfish with the important stuff like love.

  Richard Pryor

  Selfish, Like Love, Important

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• You know, the BBC had not been particularly generous in its deliverance of blues and esoteric kinds of music.

  Keith Richards

  Esoteric, Deliverance, Kind

  "'I loved rock'n'roll - but then we found the blues'" by Keith Richards, www.theguardian.com. April 30, 2009.

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• There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Men, Advice

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• 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

  Hero, Fortune, Concur

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