Top 100 Be Generous Quotes
#1. Forcing people to be generous isn't humanitarian, effective, compassionate or moral. Only acts that are truly voluntary for all concerned can be truly compassionate.
Harry Browne
#2. You have to be generous if you want to spend your time making someone else dinner. Even if you're charging, you're still giving.
Mario Batali
#3. Ah, we have to be generous to be grateful ... One has oneself to be a giver.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
#4. Be generous before you are just. Do not temper mercy with justice.
Lord Acton
#5. Be happy, be proud, be generous, be respectful, be proud to be French citizens.
Francois Hollande
#6. By moderation one can be generous.
Laozi
#7. Your parents were far from saints, Alice. It would be generous to say they were ordinary people who made some very serious mistakes. Don't make them out to be perfect. That's too thin a wire for anyone to be able to keep their balance.
Tracy Guzeman
#8. Quite apart from the fact that we usually pay so dearly for our follies, we should be generous about them, to ourselves and others. Yes, we always pay for them, and sometimes the smallest indiscretions cost as much as the largest.
Irene Nemirovsky
#9. Share the wealth. Be generous with your joy. Give away what you most want. Be generous with your insights and delights.
Pema Chodron
#10. We need to be generous with the women following in our footsteps in the hope that they will be generous with us.
Tina Sloan
#11. The PRC is the big brother in this relationship, and it has the capacity to be generous to Taiwan on this issue in a manner that might do much to defuse that issue internally in Taiwan.
William Kirby
#12. Be brave. Be open-minded. Be kind. Be forgiving. Be generous. Be optimistic. Be grateful for the many unexpected lessons you will learn. Find the joy inside the hardship. It's there. I assure you. And, too, be open to inspiration from unlikely sources.
Dana Reeve
#13. Be selfish with your speeches; be generous with your listening.
Debasish Mridha
#14. Rich people can be generous, even the ones with bloodcurdling political views can be generous, but most believe in generosity on their own terms, and underneath (not so deep, either), they're always afraid someone is going to steal their presents and eat their birthday cake.
Stephen King
#15. Elizabeth ... had the prerogative of the rich that she could be generous with large sums and niggardly over small ones ...
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#16. Where there is anger, apply loving kindness. Where there is evil, offer good. Where there is stinginess, be generous. Where there are lies, be truthful.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#17. In the morning, wonder and be generous like the sun. In the evening, meditate and be kind like the moon.
Debasish Mridha
#18. Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience.
John F. Kennedy
#20. Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to haunt for happiness
William Ewart Gladstone
#21. Don't ever be afraid of giving. Give. Give of your time, your forgiveness, your understanding, your love. Give of your money. Give to the creation, and you'll be given by the Creator. Be generous, and the Most Generous will be generous with you.
Yasmin Mogahed
#22. Be confident. Be compassionate. Be intelligent. Be humble. Be generous. The universe returns to you what you put out.
Lauren Jauregui
#23. 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
#24. It's never too early to teach your children about the tool of money. Teach them how to work for it and they learn pride and self-respect. Teach them how to save it and they learn security and self-worth. Teach them how to be generous with it and they learn love.
Judith Jamison
#25. There are journalists I share a whole history with, so I tend to be generous to these guys, but those days are over ...
Guus Hiddink
#26. If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
#27. I'm shrewd about money; I invest well and look after it. But it's in my nature to be generous. I look after people.
Rod Stewart
#28. People can be good, people can be generous, people can be helpful. People can help those who are in need when they need it ...
Kevin Sorbo
#29. To cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.
Alice Thomas Ellis
#30. Not only must you be an artist, must you be generous, and must you be able to see where you can help but you must also be aware. Aware of where your skills are welcomed.
Seth Godin
#31. The audience creates its own personality, I've noticed, in the first five minutes. They will either be generous, funny, silly, withholding, academic, analytical, grudging. And I'm fascinated with how that gets constructed, because it happens right away.
Laurie Anderson
#32. 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
#33. It is better not to try people, not to force them to desperation. Make them prosper; out of superfluidity, they will be generous. Full bellies breed gentle manners. The pinch of famine makes monsters.
Hilary Mantel
#34. Be generous in the bedroom. Share your sandwich.
Homer
#35. How much easier is it to be generous than just.
Junius
#36. I want love to be simple. I want to trust without thinking. I want to be generous with my affection and patience and love unconditionally. It is easier to love a person with their flaws than to weed through them. I want to love the whole person, not parts; and this is how I want to be loved.
Jewel
#37. You will be enriched in every way to be generous in every way, which d through us will produce thanksgiving to God.
Anonymous
#38. Be generous, be humble, and be grateful when achieving your dreams.
John C. Maxwell
#40. If you are not generous when it's difficult, you will not be generous when it's easy. Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet.
Wayne Dyer
#41. My intent is to be generous of spirit and live with total integrity every day of my life.
Deepak Chopra
#43. Be humble to those who praise you.
Be pleasant to those who honor you.
Be kind to those who cherish you.
Be good to those who love you.
Be generous to those who adore you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#44. 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
#45. Be generous with the credit for your achievements. The more other people feel that they are gaining from your success, the more they will continue to help and others will want to join in
Octavius Black
#46. If you have a good self-esteem, you can be generous, you can give back and you can be productive in the world.
Deborra-Lee Furness
#47. While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.
Andy Stanley
#48. Here's conventional wisdom: Success makes you happy. Happiness permits you to be generous. In fact, it actually works like this: Generosity makes you happy. Happy people are more likely to be successful.
Seth Godin
#49. Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that it can no longer be generous and free and creative, but must be either stuffy or furtive.
Bertrand Russell
#51. If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others.
Dalai Lama
#52. I want a desirable place to work to attract and keep them here. So you try to create an environment for people to do their best work, and be generous on the benefit side.
Joe Mansueto
#53. As always, self-esteem had created an ability to be generous.
Gloria Steinem
#55. When we teach our children to be good, to be gentle, to be forgiving (all these are attributes of God), to be generous, to love their follow men, to regard this present age as nothing, we instill virtue in their souls, and reveal the image of God within them.
Saint John Chrysostom
#56. 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
#57. Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising.
Bruce Lee
#58. Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
Albert Brooks
#59. Neither will the horse be adjudged to be generous, that is sumptuously adorned, but the horse whose nature is illustrious; nor is the man worthy who possesses great wealth, but he whose soul is generous.
Pythagoras
#60. We're often in a hurry to finish. Or in a hurry to close a sale. What happens when we adopt the posture of being in a hurry to be generous? With resources or insight or access or kindness ... It's an interesting sort of impatience.
Seth Godin
#61. I am convinced that the majority of people would be generous from selfish motives, if they had the opportunity.
Charles Dudley Warner
#62. You have even more gifts than you realize. Promise me that you'll explore all of them and that you'll be generous with them.
Julian Iragorri
#63. O my God, teach me to be generous,
teach me to serve you as I should,
to give without counting the cost,
to fight without fear of being wounded,
to work without seeking rest,
to labour without expecting any reward,
but the knowledge that I am doing your most holy will.
Ignatius Of Loyola
#64. St Paul, in his second letter to Corinth, spells this out further in the important eighth and ninth chapters, where he urges some of the Christian communities to be generous to others so that they may also have the chance to be generous in return.
Rowan Williams
#65. Be generous like the ocean with your love. Let the whole world enjoy the abundance.
Debasish Mridha
#66. If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.
Mark Twain
#67. Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other peoples' freedom and security.
William F. Buckley Jr.
#68. Your parents are always a big influence on you. They help you make you who you are. The main thing my parents taught me is just to be a nice person - to be generous, kind and happy. I hope it comes off when I work and meet people.
Amber Le Bon
#69. A Christian who withdraws into himself, hiding all that the Lord has given him, is not a Christian! I would ask the many young people present to be generous with their God-given talents for the good of others, the Church and our world.
Pope Francis
#70. To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets.
William Shakespeare
#71. That's the test, when all is said and done. Does it persuade one to do good, to rise, to stand tall, to do the right thing, to be kind, to be generous? Then it is of the Spirit of God. If it is dark, sinister, ugly, not good, then you may know that it is of the adversary.
Gordon B. Hinckley
#72. Only those person who learned to like themselves can be generous and friendly with others.
Les Giblin
#73. If faith is lacking, it is because there is too much selfishness, too much concern for personal gain. For faith to be true, it has to be generous and loving. Love and faith go together, they complete each other.
Mother Teresa
#74. We have previously suggested that philanthropy combines genuine pity with the display of power and that the latter element explains why the powerful are more inclined to be generous than to grant social justice.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#75. To know when to be generous and when firm - that is wisdom.
Edith Wharton
#76. One day. I am going to marry you. I'll be generous and let you pick when, even if it's ten years from now. Or twenty. But one day, you are going to be my wife.
Sarah J. Maas
#77. I have to give people time to take a picture, and sign autographs. I have to be generous to people. It is in my heart. Without that, I would not be Manny Pacquiao.
Manny Pacquiao
#78. If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
Connie Nielsen
#79. 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
#80. Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.
George Eliot
#81. I kept my poker face on and listened to him with an air of interest and respect (I thought of what it says in one of Rand's novels, how the winner can afford to be generous).
Harvey Pekar
#82. If ... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity
Idries Shah
#83. My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'
Abraham Verghese
#84. If we should cease to be generous and charitable because another is sordid and ungrateful, it would be much in the power of vice to extinguish Christian virtues.
Roger L'Estrange
#85. Be generous, and pleasant-tempered, and forgiving; even as God scatter favors over thee, do thou scatter over the people.
Saadi
#86. But if people are genuinely happy in their choice of action or lifestyle, we do not need to impose our standards. If they are not harming themselves, if they are not harming others, can we be generous enough to feel joy for them? That is the practice of mudita.
Sharon Salzberg
#87. The new American Dream, though, the one that markets around the world are embracing as fast as they can, is this: Be remarkable Be generous Create art Make judgment calls Connect people and ideas
Seth Godin
#88. Prime Minister Benjamin Netyanahu made it real clear. They're willing to be generous on some other concessions but not on the border issue. And I don't blame him.
Herman Cain
#89. Generosity brings happiness at every stage of its expression. We experience joy in forming the intention to be generous. We experience joy in the actual act of giving something. And we experience joy in remembering the fact that we have given.
Gautama Buddha
#90. Be strong,be kind,be generous of spirit, be understanding and let people know how grateful you are.Dont get even. Comfort the ones i've hurt and let down.Say your prayers and ask for Gods understanding and strength.Finish with a smile and some gustoand do what's' right and finish strong.
George H. W. Bush
#91. Be generous with yourself. Don't stop short of splendid things.
Willa Cather
#92. 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
#93. Commit yourself to deeper awareness. Be generous of spirit. Embrace every day as a new world. Let the timeless be in charge of time.
Deepak Chopra
#94. And now I knew myself to be generous with encouragement only when I either did not want the thing the other person sought of did not believe the person would really get it.
Curtis Sittenfeld
#95. Be remarkable Be generous Create art Make judgment calls Connect people and ideas . . . and we have no choice but to reward you.
Seth Godin
#96. Could be generous and caring to a fault, but he had a darker side as well, characterized by monomania, impatience, and unwavering self-absorption, qualities that seemed to intensify through his college years.
Jon Krakauer
#97. Be Kind. Be Generous. Be Helpful. Show Mercy. Be Forgiving. Give Love.
Be Thankful. Be Cheerful. Do Acts Of Kindness for Those Who Can Never Repay you. It all helps to brighten humanity!
Timothy Pina
#98. Be generous. Give to those you love; give to those who love you, give to the fortunate, give to the unfortunate - yes, give especially to those you don't want to give. You will receive abundance for your giving. The more you give, the more you will have.
W. Clement Stone
#99. Be generous with your time and money - it has an amazingly fast payback. Be in the moment with everyone you love - and this frequently means tuning out work completely. And drive slow in parking lots.
Scott Weiss
#100. Be kind, be decent, be generous, be tolerant, compassionate, and understanding. Be fast to praise, slow to judge. Remember, we're all human, and don't cast the first stone.
Allen Drury
