Quotes by Generosity To be here is immense. Rainer Maria Rilke immensegenerosity The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic. Ralph Waldo Emerson generosityheromen Religious celebrations, and the good will, high spirits and generosity that mark them, are wonderful occasions for understanding the potential of 'everyday multiculturalism', and how people from diverse faiths can connect and show they care, rather than go down parallel, sometimes hostile, roads. Randa Abdel-Fattah generosityreligiouspeople If you spend too much time watching and fantasizing others while they achieve their dreams you may well miss your own. Randall Wright generositymissingdream All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others? Ramana Maharshi generosityselfgiving When rough times have fallen upon our state in the past, Texans have always responded with generosity and an eagerness to help. The compassionate response to the fires has proven that this community spirit is alive and well. Randy Neugebauer generosityfirepast Give generously. How much is generous? There's no one-size-fits-all answer. If you've never tithed, start there - then begin to stretch your generosity. Randy Alcorn generousgenerositygiving 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 generositydepthheart Once you have known the generosity of existence you will never feel miserable. Rajneesh miserygenerositysadness You got to set your mind right and the rest will come to you naturally. No restrictions, no hang-ups, no stupid rules, no formalities, no forbidden fruit - just everyone getting and giving as much as he and she can. Ray Charles generositystupidgiving Less money spent on billboards that just make us feel good about ourselves and more on soup kitchens and organized visits to the sick and dying. Rebecca Goldstein soup-kitchensgenerositysick Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style. Rebecca Solnit generositystylekindness I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere. Rebecca Solnit disastergenerosityresistance Why I talked about political correctness: the colonial is now such a major taboo that any achievement of the colonial period, or any generosity implied in colonialism, is again fundamentally neglected or fundamentally not recognised. That's crazy, because history is a series of layers, and you cannot say, "This layer I support and this layer I cancel." History is history and you cannot retrospectively manipulate it. Rem Koolhaas generositysupportcrazy Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely selfish soul, living for his own best interest. No exceptions. Richard Bach generosityselfishsoul You cannot give anything to a magnanimous person. After you have served him, he at once puts you in debt by his magnanimity. Ralph Waldo Emerson debtgenerositygiving Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do. Richard Dawkins generosityselfishdesign We must not let the things we can't do keep us from doing the things we can do. Richard L. Evans generositycan-do Be warned that if you wish, as I do, to build a society in which individuals cooperate generously and unselfishly towards a common good, you can expect little help from biological nature. Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Richard Dawkins generosityselfishtrying I would argue that the next President, either Bush or Gore, should strike a 'national' posture, exhibiting generosity toward the defeated opponent, but proceeding with determination to implement an agenda. Richard V. Allen generositydeterminationpresident«2324252627282930313233»
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