Famous Quotes & Sayings

E. F. Schumacher

The generosity of the Earth allows us to feed all mankind; we know enough about ecology to keep the Earth a healthy place; there is enough room on the Earth, and there are enough materials, so that everybody can have adequate shelter; we are quite competent enough to produce sufficient supplies of necessities so that no one need live in misery.

E. F. Schumacher

There is incredible generosity in the potentialities of Nature. We only have to discover how to utilize them.

Jimmy Carter

There needs to be a similar degree of flexibility and generosity in the recognition of the humaneness and worth of people who we generally consider as adversaries.

James Mackintosh

Every fiction since Homer has taught friendship, patriotism, generosity, contempt of death. These are the highest virtues; and the fictions which taught them were therefore of the highest, though not of unmixed, utility.

Lord Chesterfield

Deserve a great deal, and you shall have a great deal; deserve little, and you shall have but a little; and be good for nothing atall, and I assure you, you shall have nothing at all.

Ellen G. White

True generosity is too frequently eaten up by prosperity and riches.

Hesiod

Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

Henry Ward Beecher

Watch lest prosperity destroy generosity.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Giving is the business of the rich.

Joan Didion

It occurs to me that we allow ourselves to imagine only such messages as we need to survive.

John Irving

Good habits are worth being fanatical about.

Elbert Hubbard

Meanness is more in half-doing than in omitting acts of generosity.

Gretchen Rubin

Forbearance is a form of generosity.

Herbert Spencer

There is a story of some mountains of salt in Cumana, which never diminished, though carried away in much abundance by merchants; but when once they were monopolized to the benefit of a private purse, then the salt decreased; till afterward all were allowed to take of it, when it had a new access and increase. The truth of this story may be uncertain, but the application is true; he that envies others the use of his gifts decays then, but he thrives most that is most diffusive.

Jean Houston

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

Christopher Hitchens

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

Gary Zukav

When you choose not to forgive... it is you who are forced every day to look at life through contaminated lenses because you have chosen to keep them.

Fulton J. Sheen

Our generosity is measured not by what we give but by what we keep.

Fulton J. Sheen

Never measure your generosity by what you give, but rather by what you have left.

George R. R. Martin

Control your generosity when dealing with a chronic borrower.

Ezra Taft Benson

If you turn your life over to the Lord he can do so much more with it than we can.

Ezra Taft Benson

If we keep a goal firmly in mind, we will know when we have reached it. This gives us a sense of accomplishment and the challenge of establishing fresh, new goals - always keeping the long-range objective in mind. If we can state our goals clearly, we will gain a purpose and meaning in all our actions.

Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

It was not the part of His kindly love that he who was to praise God's divine generosity in regard to others should be compelled to condemn it in regard to himself.

Ignatius of Loyola

God inclines to shower His graces upon us, but our perverted will is a barrier to His generosity.

Ignatius of Loyola

God will not be outdone in generosity.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Among the wealthy, generosity is often merely a kind of shyness.

Larry Hughes

Their generosity has provided this program with the momentum that it might not otherwise have gotten.

There's been an outpouring of generosity and support.

Euripides

To generous souls every task is noble.

Jules Verne

I have been, am, in his service; I have seen his generosity and goodness; and I will never betray him-not for all the gold in the world. I have come from a village where they don't eat that kind of bread.

Julia Child

The sweetness and generosity and politeness and gentleness and humanity of the French had shown me how lovely life can be if one takes time to be friendly.

Honore de Balzac

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.