generosity quotes

• Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society. (Edmund Burke) [generosity/order/capital/society]
• Idleness is an appendix to nobility. (Robert Burton) [idleness/generosity]
• I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity... in all things, generosity. (George Bush) [take/unity/generosity]
• Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present. (Albert Camus) [generosity/future/present]
• Real nobility is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference. (Albert Camus) [generosity/courage]
• To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. ( Confucius) [perfect/virtue/generosity/honesty]
• The sea -- this truth must be confessed -- has no generosity. No display of manly qualities -- courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness -- has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power. (Joseph Conrad) [truth/generosity/courage/consciousness]
• Curiosity ... endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will. (Alistair Cooke) [curiosity/people/generosity/argument]
• Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington. (Dorothy Day) [tradition/generosity]
• The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [generosity/land]
• The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [heroism/men/generosity]
• Lavishness is not generosity. (Thomas Fuller) [generosity]
• Virtue is the only true nobility. (Thomas Fuller) [virtue/generosity]
• Generosity is the flower of justice. (Nathaniel Hawthorne) [generosity/flower/]
• What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [generosity/more/interest/order]
• What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [generosity/vanity/vanity/more]
• Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [generosity]
• War alone brings up to their highest tension all human energies and imposes the stamp of nobility upon the peoples who have the courage to make it. (Benito Mussolini) [war/human/generosity/courage]
• One of the effects of a safe and civilized life is an immense oversensitiveness which makes all the primary emotions somewhat disgusting. Generosity is as painful as meanness, gratitude as hateful as ingratitude. (George Orwell) [life/generosity]
• Suffering is by no means a privilege, a sign of nobility, a reminder of God. Suffering is a fierce, bestial thing, commonplace, uncalled for, natural as air. It is intangible; no one can grasp it or fight against it; it dwells in time -- is the same thing as time; if it comes in fits and starts, that is only so as to leave the sufferer more defenseless during the moments that follow, those long moments when one relives the last bout of torture and waits for the next. (Cesare Pavese) [suffering/generosity/god/suffering]
• Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives. (Jean-Paul Sartre) [generosity/give/give/give]
• Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man. (Adam Smith) [virtue/generosity]
• Put more trust in nobility of character than in an oath. ( Solon) [more/trust/generosity/character]
• I kind of wanted to give him that James Evans nobility, ... With the exception of 'The Cosby Show,' every black father I see on TV, they're not really masculine. They're like these theater-type guys -- not gay, not straight, just theater. (Chris Rock) [give/generosity/exception/gay]
• There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow men. True nobility lies in being superior to your former self. (Elijah Wood) [being/men/generosity/being]
• My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that. () [grandfather/generosity/change]
• Let's react like America always has - with courage, fortitude and, especially, generosity. (William Shatner) [america/courage/generosity]
• My interest in photography really began with the tremendous generosity of my friend Joe Kelly giving me the Rolleiflex to take with me on my trip to London to work with Stanley Kubrick. (Matthew Modine) [interest/generosity/take]
• “The encouraging thing is that in the aftermath of this fiasco everybody is outraged and the generosity of white suburban Republicans as well as black liberal Democrats indicates that the country wants better from its government and wants better from its politics, ... The burden is on us as Democrats, the burden is on me as a U.S. senator to help bridge that gap.” (Barack Obama) [thing/generosity/government/politics]
• Yoga is about compassion and generosity towards others. It means being mindful of the world around us. (Christy Turlington) [yoga/compassion/generosity/being]

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