Capitalists have done more good for society through their charitable giving, philanthropy and generosity than all their critics combined.
Generosity is the key to all relationships. To friendships and bands. That's the golden rule.
Ask for help. Receiving is an act of generosity.
In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics.
All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
O vanity, how little is thy force acknowledged or thy operations discerned! How wantonly dost thou deceive mankind under different disguises! Sometimes thou dost wear the face of pity; sometimes of generosity; nay, thou hast the assurance to put on those glorious ornaments which belong only to heroic virtue.
Never lie under any circumstances.
I want the strangeness and weirdness and incomprehensibility of life that art can reflect so well, but I want it to feel like a mystery that is inviting us in. Sagan's great art lesson for me was generosity of wonder and making curiosity contagious.
The place God calls you to is the place where your deep gladness and the world’s deep hunger meet.
I think that deep inside, all of humanity knows there's truth here, whether they want to admit it or not. There's a joy that comes in Christmas. There's a season of giving, so people feel this generosity.
We trust to novels to train us in the practice of great indignations and great generosity.
Occasionally problems will occur. When it happens to your customers, fix the problem fast. Make it your speed and generosity that gets remembered, not the problem.
Painters strike me as having warm uncomplicated friendships and probably more natural generosity than the practitioners of any other art. Perhaps this is because painting is such a portable, flexible thing.
In order to have the continued opportunity to express their "generosity" the oppressors must perpetuate injustice as well.
I am convinced by a sad experience that it is natural to avoid those to whom we have been too much obliged, and that uncommon generosity causes neglect rather than gratitude.
The thing is, I can teach. I can teach bloody well. So few chefs have that level of generosity. I demand a lot, a f***ing hell of a lot, but I give a lot back.
Great spenders are bad lenders.
I began to enjoy my own generosity; I felt the pleasure of pleasing others, especially as this was accompanied by money-power. I was paying for them; they were grateful, they had to be; and they could no longer see me as a failure.
The ultimate expression of generosity is not in giving of what you have, but in giving of who you are.