Quotes About Generosity Of Spirit

#1. Christmas is the spark within our hearts that ignites as each day grows closer and burns brightly with the promise of compassion, love and generosity of spirit.

Lee Bice-Matheson

#2. The upper echelon of the movie industry is easier to deal with and the work is much easier to accomplish because of this generosity of spirit and confidence that they instill in the group around them.

John Travolta

#3. Success with a small s is based on accumulation and materialism. Success with a large S is based on the unfoldment of our soul and the generosity of Spirit made manifest by the giving of our gifts.

Michael Beckwith

#4. The most important thing that everyone should bring to the dining experience is a certain generosity of spirit. Just remember that there are two kinds of people: lovers and others. And you know what you can do with the others.

John Olsen

#5. The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes the best, not the worst, of the stranger.

Kingman Brewster Jr.

#6. [There was] an openness not found on the East Coast and a generosity of spirit. New York was always formulating the correct ways to work and think while back here [in California] we were always eager to be surprised and engaged in new ways.

Eleanor Antin

#7. However much your life may have become an expression of creativity, of generosity of spirit, there's always the further possibility of more or just expressing it in different ways.

Arjuna Ardagh

#8. We are treated with such generosity of spirit.

Michael Zaslow

#9. Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life.

Orison Swett Marden

#10. If truth doesn't set you free, generosity of spirit will.

Katerina Stoykova Klemer

#11. No one is self-sufficient.
And it's not a one-way thing-
-the generosity of spirit from one side provokes a response in kind from the other side.

Desmond Tutu

#12. Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is.

Kim Campbell

#13. Catherine Avril Morris: Thank you for sharing your life and your beautiful baby boy, August John, with me. His life was short but his impact on mine is everlasting. Lady, you amaze me with your strength and generosity of spirit.

Katie Graykowski

#14. It's a great privilege and an honour to have the experiences and opportunities that I do to meet extraordinary Australians right across our country who share a great generosity of spirit.

Quentin Bryce

#15. If you believe in practising generosity of spirit, at heart you believe in the power of an individual to make a difference and at heart you treat individuals with deep respect and want to see others flourish.

Gail Kelly

#16. Tim Kaine has a message of fiscal responsibility and generosity of spirit. That kind of message can sell anywhere.

Barack Obama

#17. An artist gives. Gives visually, gives through courses, or with free advice, through generosity of spirit and through a need to share.

Veronica Roth

#18. The more you love, the more loving you become. That's just the way it works. It is a generosity of spirit.

Jean Houston

#19. To the British, Dunkirk symbolizes a generosity of spirit, a willingness to sacrifice for the common good. To Americans, it has come to mean Mrs. Miniver, little ships, The Snow Goose, escape by sea. To the French, it suggests bitter defeat; to the Germans, opportunity forever lost.

Walter Lord

#20. Wine to me is passion. It's family and friends. It's warmth of heart and generosity of spirit.

Robert Mondavi

#21. 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

#22. Wantonness might be sheer desperation, masking a suicidal self-debasement, but it might also represent a joyful, lusty sexuality that indicated, at heart, a vast generosity of spirit.

Kathleen Norris

#23. Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.

Audrey Hepburn

#24. It's not the depth of your intellect that will comfort you or transform your world. Only the richness of your heart and your generosity of spirit can do that

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#25. Those dogs of the hajj go to Mecca to pray when they don't possess even the decency or generosity of spirit to pardon or forgive.

Yousef Al-Mohaimeed

#26. I always thought of my work as being animated by a spirit of unhinged generosity.

Mark Leyner

#27. I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.

Sam Simon

#28. [T]he notion that a belief in self-reliance cannot coexist with a spirit of generosity is crap. In fact, one is far less likely to find a spirit of generosity among the advocates of governmentally-required "compassion".

Glenn Reynolds

#29. The spirit of Christmas is the spirit of love and of generosity and of goodness. It illuminates the picture window of the soul, and we look out upon the world's busy life and become more interested in people than in things.

Thomas S. Monson

#30. Life is about luck and it's about circumstances and socioeconomic conditions and all the rest of it, but you know, you can also make choices. It's about spirit and generosity and all the other things, too.

Mike Leigh

#31. Either a princess or a pauper can feel generous. Generosity is the quality of the spirit. When you feel generous your life becomes, abundant full of compassion and love.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#32. The generosity of the American people is legendary. So is their spirit.

Marsha Blackburn

#33. In every one of us is the total of all we have ever been, the sullen child, the arrogant youth, the suckling babe. Every fear endured in childhood is lodged somewhere in here.' He tapped his temple. 'And every act of heroism or cowardice, generosity or meanness of spirit.

David Gemmell

#34. Who wants to do good in this world must deny oneself. A man does not live on this Earth to be happy or to be honest only - he has to do great things for humanity, achieve the generosity of the spirit and rise above the banality where most of the people are drowning and wasting their days.

Irving Stone

#35. Paul famously wrote, "The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control."5 How often do we measure Christian ideas and beliefs by these criteria?

Tony Jones

#36. I don't know if I'm a populist artist, but I do try to maintain a spirit of generosity.

Fred Tomaselli

#37. We can give away all that He entrusts to us in the same spirit of generosity.

Craig Groeschel

#38. Expressed gratitude encourages further giving; ingratitude drains vitality out of the spirit of generosity.

Michael Josephson

#39. Judi Dench has always been the benchmark for me. Everything I have seen her do is incredible. I also really admire Cate Blanchett. In terms of people I have worked with, there is no one more admirable than Hugh Jackman, for his spirit, energy, generosity and hard work.

Laura Donnelly

#40. It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.

Patrick Stewart

#41. The spirit of Christmas is - and hopefully always will be - about goodwill and generosity to others and peace on earth.

Nick Rahall