Famous Quotes & Sayings

Randy Levine

There is great strength and generosity from so many willing to help those in need.

Samuel Smiles

The possession of a library, or the free use of it, no more constitutes learning, than the possession of wealth constitutes generosity.

Ze Frank

Let me extend that generosity to myself.

Winston Churchill

We get to make a living; we give to make a life.

Jack Welch

Every great leader has a generosity gene.

Nick Rahall

The spirit of Christmas is - and hopefully always will be - about goodwill and generosity to others and peace on earth.

Neal A. Maxwell

Progress is measured by milestones. What many good people lack are markers that might tell them how they are actually doing. Goals can become a ritual or a fetish, but in the right measure they can give us some much needed reference points. No wonder some seem discouraged! Minus such milestones, we often feel minus in our lives

Oscar Wilde

People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity.

Elia Kazan

I want to thank the Academy for its courage and generosity.

Shawn Amos

I get my clothes from three sources: Target, thrift shops, and friends. It's simple and it's cheap.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

There is no evil that does not promise inducements. Avarice promises money; luxury, a varied assortment of pleasures; ambition, a purple robe and applause. Vices tempt you by the rewards they offer.

Pliny Elder

The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.

John Maynard Keynes

For at least another hundred years we must pre­tend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

Andreas Capellanus

Even if the whole earth and sea were turned to gold, they could hardly satisfy the avarice of a woman... You can more easily scratch a diamond with your fingernail than you can by any human ingenuity get a woman to consent to giving any of her savings.

Stendhal

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all.

Nicholas Kristof

One of the things you learn as a journalist is that when there's no accountability, we humans are capable of tremendous avarice and venality. That's true of union bosses - and of corporate tycoons. Unions, even flawed ones, can provide checks and balances for flawed corporations.