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.

Jimmy Cliff

If I could change one thing about myself... I would try to control my generosity.

David Rakoff

Central to living a life that is good, is a life that's forgiving.

Audrey Hepburn

Work as hard as you can, whatever you do, and try to spread generosity of spirit.

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.

James Martineau

We can neither change nor overpower God's eternal suffrage against selfishness and meanness.

John Dewey

The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat.

Madame de Stael

Atheism exists only in coldness, selfishness, and baseness.