Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground.
Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.
A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time.
Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse. To and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing, As in a foundering ship.
But I was very, very unhappy because my mother was very charming and generous, but to me, very dominating.
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.
The loss of liberty to a generous mind is worse than death.
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.
I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek. ' They are by and large very imaginative, very intelligent people, and they certainly have been more than generous to me.
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.
One ought to be just before one is generous
Only the action that is moved by love for the good at hand has the hope of being responsible and generous.
Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
How generous was it to offer gifts to people one knew would never accept them?
A generous action is its own reward.
That is one of the bitter curses of poverty; it leaves no right to be generous.
Life is short, very short, and what are we doing here if not trying to become more generous and loving?
Since I was introduced to the practice of God's presence, which in turn led me into the contemplative way, I have nearly always felt so rich, so blessed, so sincerely full of "enough. ". . . I believe it is on this robust, overflowing. . . contemplative pathway that one gains the joy and serenity to be generous.
I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project.
I think design, to a degree, is more generous and more humanistic than art, though great art can move us more.