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.

Elia Kazan

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

Karen Armstrong

Deeds that seemed unimportant at the time would prove to have been momentous; a tiny act of selfishness and unkindness or, conversely, an unconsidered act of generosity would become the measure of a human life

Madeleine M. Kunin

We're all basically made of the same stuff: generosity and selfishness, goodness and greed.

Hesiod

Drink your fill when the jar is first opened, and when it is nearly done, but be sparing when it is half-empty; it's a poor savingwhen you come to the dregs.

rahul jaiswal

the only things in this world which are never satisfied are WOMEN and GREED...

Scott Bogumil

It got away from us. The 3-pointer to start the third quarter was great, but we then got greedy with those.

Michael MacCambridge

The owners, as cantankerous as some of them are, and as singled-minded as some of them are and as greedy as some of them are, ultimately have respect for who Tagliabue is and what he has accomplished.

Richard Rogers

Today is much more an age of greed

Warren Buffett

Be fearful when there is greed and be greedy when there is fear.

Warren Buffett

Be fearful when the markets get greedy, be greedy when the markets get fearful.

Sathya Baba

Peace can only be won the hard way, by eliminating violence and greed from the hearts of individual.

Richard Doherty

If there was a simple acronym for greed, I'd use that. There's a lot of money at stake.

Jose Marti

But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.

Anton LaVey

Satanism represents a form of controlled selfishness.

Richard Dawkins

It often turns out on closer inspection that acts of apparent altruism are really selfishness in disguise.

Roz Chast

It's almost selfishness, taking care of your mental health. You can't just not do it.

Woodrow Wilson

Caution is the confidential agent of selfishness.

Walter Scott

Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to the entire world besides.

Jose Rizal

Cowardice rightly understood begins with selfishness and ends with shame.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Twin-sister of Religion, Selfishness.

George MacDonald

There is little hope of the repentance and redemption of certain some until they have committed one or another of the many wrong things of which they are daily, through a course of unrestrained selfishness, becoming more and more capable.

Jonathan Edwards

If you seek in the spirit of selfishness, to grasp all as your own, you shall lose all, and be driven out of the world, at last, naked and forlorn, to everlasting poverty and contempt.