My parents didn't believe in luck. They believed in hard work and in preparing me to take advantage of opportunity. Like many parents, they taught me to be generous but never to depend on the generosity of others.
You can be a woman in charge of a production and still be generous and kind and insightful and decisive without being considered a butch in any way.
Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!
Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness.
America will be a prosperous, generous, and inclusive society.
O my God, teach me to be generous to serve you as you deserve to be served to give without counting the cost to fight without fear of being wounded to work without seeking rest and to spend myself without expecting any reward but the knowledge that I am doing your holy will. Amen
There's a unique thing about the UK, where you give a very generous foreign aid budget to support globally, which is spent wisely. We partner with the government here to make sure that that money is spent well.
I'm a generous host, but I'm a difficult and interfering guest. When I go around to other people's houses and they're cooking, I'm always telling them what to do.
A hermitage in the forest is the refuge of the narrow-minded misanthrope; a hammock on the ocean is the asylum for the generous distressed.
Military despotism represses generous sentiments, priestly tyranny stifles them.
What inspires me is helping others to become more of who they are and to learn to become radically generous with each other.
The most essential elements of success in life are a purpose, increasing industry, temperate habits, scrupulous regard for ones word. . . courteous manners, a generous regard for the rights of others, and, above all, integrity which admits of no qualification or variation.
Success may or may not mean that you've acquired a lot. It does mean that you have become a generous person.
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
God's extravagant generosity toward us compels us to be extravagantly generous toward others.
I would have every minister of the gospel address his audience with the zeal of a friend, with the generous energy of a father, and with the exuberant affection of a mother.
Actors are very generous.
Ideas that spread win. Ideas don't have to be selfish to win, in fact, it turns out that the more generous the interactions an idea produces, the more likely it is to spread.
Be just before you are generous.
When our cup runs over, we let others drink the drops that fall, but not a drop from within the rim, and call it charity; when the crumbs are swept from our table, we think it generous to let the dogs eat them; as if that were charity which permits others to have what we cannot keep.