Top 54 Quotes About Generous Person

#1. I've always thought that one of the least successful encounters is meeting a writer one admires. For one thing, writers are generally much kinder, more empathetic, more generous people on the page than they are in person.

Hanya Yanagihara

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#2. Love is swift, sincere, pious, joyful, generous, strong, patient, faithful, prudent, long-suffering, courageous, and never seeking its own; for wheresoever a person seeketh his own, there he falleth from love ...

Thomas A Kempis

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#3. Empathy, the way that we can place ourselves, imaginatively, in the position of another person, is at the heart of what we do as readers, as people striving for a generous understanding of one another.

Brenda Walker

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#4. 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

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#5. Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

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#6. If I want to be a loving, generous, giving person, I'm not going to test the waters. I'm simply going to be a loving, generous, giving person.

Liz Murray

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#7. Faith is like a pickpocket who loans a person his own money on generous terms.

Sam Harris

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#8. 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

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#9. I feel grateful that the person I end up working with a lot is Paul Rudd. He's a prince among men, and so talented, and generous, and effortless.

Kathryn Hahn

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#10. The subsistence mentality of a person is a prison in which his personal joy is detained. If you want to live in joy, you don't live for yourself alone. Live for others too!

Israelmore Ayivor

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#11. How can both Nics, the loving and considerate and generous one, and the self-obsessed and self-destructive one, be the same person?

David Sheff

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#12. She [Monica Vitti] was a great actress, but a very difficult person. I am not in contact with her at the moment because she is very sick. Not a generous woman, I have to say. I don't see her much.

Giovanna Cau

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#13. I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.

Barbra Streisand

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#14. Oh, he thinks, if I were a better person. If I were a more generous person. If I were a less self-involved person. If I were a braver person.

Hanya Yanagihara

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#15. Love made you a better person. Made you feel protected and precious and chosen. Chosen such a lovely word! And in loving someone else you became better ... noble and generous and beneficent.

Kristan Higgins

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#16. The more time she is spending around people, the more she discovers of her own character failures. In the cottage she was generous, she was kind, she was positive. In this world new sides of her are emerging and she doesn't like it. She thought she was a better person than this.

Cecelia Ahern

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#17. Any writer knows he has to pay for his compliments. As soon as he has said, Why, thank you, that's very generous of you, the other person clears his throat and dives into his own writing experiences.

Mary Jane Ward

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#18. Where is the man to be found who wishes to remain indebted for the defense of his own person and property to the exertions, the bravery, and the blood of others, without making one generous effort to repay the debt of honor and gratitude?

George Washington

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#19. Only those person who learned to like themselves can be generous and friendly with others.

Les Giblin

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

Bobby Fischer

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#21. A generous person may not have wisdom: but, unlike others, he has the means to gain it.

Idries Shah

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#22. 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

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#23. Sincere and generous collaboration is the best way to fulfil the legitimate aspirations of each person and achieve great collective goals for the common good and the general interest.

King Felipe VI

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#24. Success may or may not mean that you've acquired a lot. It does mean that you have become a generous person.

Robert H. Schuller

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#25. You know, you should really look at where Mitt has led his life, and where he's been financially. He's a very generous person. We give 10 percent of our income to our church every year. Do you think that is the kind of person that is trying to hide things, or do things? No.

Ann Romney

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#26. Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

Albert Brooks

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#27. 25A generous person will prosper; whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.

Anonymous

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#28. I'm not a new-agey person, but narrative is ancient and wise and generous.

Jim Crace

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#29. People do not give from the top of their purses but from the bottom of their hearts. If you desire to become a more generous person do not change your income. Change your heart.

John C. Maxwell

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#30. We each joked to close friends that the secret to saving a relationship is for one person to become terminally ill. Conversely, we knew that one trick to managing a terminal illness is to be deeply in love - to be vulnerable, kind, generous, grateful.

Paul Kalanithi

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#31. Envy is resentment of good things that happen to other people. Jealousy increases the importance of the person we wish belonged only to us. Envy, as I told you, is poison, and futile - we want to be the other person. But jealousy is generous - we want the other person to be ours.

Carlos Fuentes

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#32. I loved being in the room with Mamet as a director - he is the most generous, funny, delightful person to work for every day.

Richard Thomas

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#33. A Woman who is generous with her money is to be praised; not so, if she is generous with her person

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

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#34. I am going to concentrate on what's important in life. I'm going to strive everyday to be a kind and generous and loving person. I'm going to keep death right here, so that anytime I even think about getting angry at you or anybody else, I'll see death and I'll remember.

Diane Frolov

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#35. Angelina Jolie is just an extremely talented, generous, nice person to be around and to work with.

Domhnall Gleeson

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#36. If you desire to become a more generous person, don't wait for your income to change. Change your heart.

John C. Maxwell

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#37. 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

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#38. So you want to improve the world? Then do it. To the next person who crosses your path, say something kind, do something generous, perform a simple act of service. By doing this on a regular basis, you will indeed improve the world.

Richelle E. Goodrich

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#39. What is the hypothesis of generosity? What is the most generous assumption you can make about this person's intentions or what this person said?

Brene Brown

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#40. Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God.

Mother Teresa

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#41. It's a phenomenon that I've often observed without understanding it. Inside someone another person can exist, a fully formed, generous, and trustworthy individual who never comes to light except in glimpses, because he is surrounded by a corrupt, dyed-in-the-wool, repeat offender.

Peter Hoeg

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#42. Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community.

Mother Teresa

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#43. At my funeral, if one said, 'Nick was a generous person,' trust me I won't be doing cartwheels in my coffin. Recognition from people is never and never will be a goal. Some people strive for that respect or honor. Living a life to just reach for the position and status is vanity and sin.

Nick Vujicic

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#44. The only way to reach another person at any depth is to move toward what is deepest in yourself. In other words, to take the opposite path from the one followed by so-called generous minds.

Emil Cioran

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#45. Because he wanted nothing from her; this was a generous, expansive feeling, unattached to the possibility of gratification; it was the simple happiness that came from knowing that one particular person was alive in the world

Jo Baker

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#46. 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

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#47. I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.

David Tennant

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#48. A generous person is a person who doesn't only give money but also contributes his service to humanity.

Debasish Mridha

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#49. It may be very generous in one person to offer what it would be ungenerous in another to accept.

Samuel Richardson

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#50. Robin Williams was the kind of generous person who would do things but not want to receive public credit for it.

Jessica Chastain

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#51. I've always been a generous and a kind person and so on, but never, ever have I experienced that kind of love. The world just looked different to me and still does.

Wayne Dyer

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#52. The generous person is always just, and the just who is always generous may, unannounced, approach the throne of heaven.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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#53. Fate's got a fucking sick sense of humor. Fate is a shape-shifter. It's the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think its one thing, but then its another.

Deb Caletti

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#54. 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

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