Generous Quotes - Page 40

• I'm not as soft or as generous a person as I would be if the world hadn't changed me.

  Bobby Fischer

  Would Be, World, Changed

  "Portrait of a Genius As a Young Chess Master". Interview with Ralph Ginzburg, 1961.

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• The talented employee may join a company because of its charismatic leaders, its generous benefits, and its world-class training programs, but how long that employee stays and how productive he is while he is there is determined by his relationship with his immediate supervisor.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Class, Long, Leader

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• Ubuntu is very difficult to render into a Western language. It speaks of the very essence of being human.... you are generous, you are hospitable, you are friendly and caring and compassionate. You share what you have. It is to say, 'My humanity is inextricably bound up in yours.' We belong in a bundle of life.

  Desmond Tutu

  Caring, Ubuntu, Essence

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• I'm not great with money. I'd go crazy if I were left to my own devices. My mum and girlfriend sort it out. I'm not driven by it, but I love to be generous.

  Louis Tomlinson

  Girlfriend, Crazy, Driven

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• I love Vermont because of her hills and valleys, her scenery and invigorating climate, but most of all because of her indomitable people. They are a race of pioneers who have almost beggared themselves to serve others. If the spirit of liberty should vanish in other parts of the union and support of our institutions should languish, it could all be replenished from the generous store held by the people of this brave little state of Vermont.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Race, People, Support

  Speech in Bennington, Vermont, September 21, 1928.

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• As I am generous towards others ... As I see a person in need and don't just say, 'God bless you.' I am proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ.

  Kay Arthur

  Jesus, Needs, Christ

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• The only honest and generous thing for me to do is to give people myself. That's all I've got as an artist, so I want to do that in an unflinching way.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Artist, People, Giving

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• Selfless, generous, compassionate living is unassailable.

  Andy Stanley

  Selfless, Compassionate

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• 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

  Jobs, Heart, Helping Others

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• It is a real tragedy for a nation when three groups of it's people, namely politicians, religious leaders and charity workes, just pretend to be generous.

  Khem Veasna

  Religious, Real, People

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• Don't waste time on what's not important. Don't get sucked into the drama. Get on with it: don't dwell on the past. Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

  Allegra Huston

  Drama, Past, Important

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• The true foundation of the brotherhood of humankind is belief in the knowledge that God is the Father of humankind. For us, therefore, brotherhood is not only a generous impulse but also a divine command.

  Harry S. Truman

  Father, Community, Brotherhood

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• As a rule, only the poor are generous.

  Honore de Balzac

  Generosity, Poor

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• All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Eye, Air, Research

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• Be confident. Be compassionate. Be intelligent. Be humble. Be generous. The universe returns to you what you put out.

  Lauren Jauregui

  Humble, Intelligent, Return

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• The thing I got to thinking about,' he said, 'is--what are the conditions that lead to larger portions of society being generous, humble, and selfless? While we have the conditions for economic opportunity here--and that is a blessing--do we have the conditions to learn how to self-regulate our own passions for the good of the whole?

  Warren St. John

  Humble, Passion, Opportunity

  Warren St. John (2009). “Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference”, p.223, Spiegel & Grau

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• We now have the sweetest, kindest and most generous fans from far away places - it’s a real privilege.

  Nick Littlemore

  Real, Fans, Privilege

  "Empire of the Sun interview: 'We want Vegas show with elephants'". Interview with Robert Copsey, www.digitalspy.com. June 20, 2013.

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• The few of understanding, vision rare, Who veiled not from the herd their hearts, but tried, Poor generous fools, to lay their feelings bare, Them have men always burnt and crucified.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Men, Understanding

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• Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

  Richard Dawkins

  Imagination, Religion, Poetic

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• Whatever thrift is, it is not avarice. Avarice is not generous; and, after all, it is the thrifty people who are generous.

  Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery

  People, Thrifty, Frugality

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• Being generous without keeping score strengthens your spirit, keeps you focused on the people who make your business what it is, and helps breed success.

  Brandon Steiner

  People, Spirit, Helping

  FaceBook post by Brandon Steiner from Jun 20, 2016

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• We are hungry for tenderness,
  in a world where everything abounds
  we are poor of this feeling
  which is like a caress
  for our heart
  we need these small gestures
  that make us feel good
  Tenderness
  is a disinterested and generous love,
  that does not ask anything else
  to be understood and appreciated.

  Alda Merini

  Heart, Generous Love, Feel Good

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• It is impossible to be just if one is not generous.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Justice, Impossible, Ifs

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• Giving the kids a programming environment of any sort, whether it's a tool like Squeak or Scratch or Logo to write programs in a childish way - and I mean that in the most generous sense of the word, that is, playing with and building things - is one of the best ways to learn.

  Nicholas Negroponte

  Writing, Mean, Kids

  "Negroponte: Laptop for Every Kid". Interview with Kevin Poulsen, www.wired.com. November 17, 2005.

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• More and more the world is growing to love a lover, and one has only to read the newspapers to see how sympathetic are the times to any generous and adventurous display of the passions.

  Richard Le Gallienne

  Passion, World, Growing

  Richard Le Gallienne (1915). “Vanishing Roads, and Other Essays”

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