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.

Jack Welch

Every great leader has a generosity gene.

David Rakoff

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

Andy Stanley

While generosity may be the antidote for the dizzying effects of wealth, your appetite for more may function as an antidote against God-honoring generosity. Your appetite for more stuff, status, and security has the potential to quash your efforts to be generous. And that's a problem.

Simon Sinek

Generosity is doing something for someone else expecting nothing in return.

Thucydides

In generosity we are equally singular, acquiring our friends by conferring, not by receiving, favours.

Rumi

The ground's generosity takes in our compost and grows beauty! Try to be more like the ground.

Thomas Kinkade

The more you give yourself to others, the more joy and peace will flow into your own life.

Samuel Johnson

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favour.

Christopher Masterson

I like many different kinds of music. My favourite band is Radiohead, and I'm also a giant Jeff Buckley fan.

Asif Kapadia

I made three short films of my own which I wrote, produced, directed... you did everything in those days. My favourite one was something I shot on VHS... a little documentary.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

That, Senators, is what a favour from gangs amounts to. They refrain from murdering someone; then they boast that they have spared him!

Marcus Tullius Cicero

Favours out of place I regard as positive injuries.

Philip Massinger

I had not to this time subsisted, but that I was supported by your frequent courtesies and favours.

Peter Ustinov

Life is unfair but remember sometimes it is unfair in your favour.

Virat Kohli

As a kid, even I knew everything about my favourite cricketers. I used to know everything possible. Now I see kids knowing about me. It feels good.

Douglas Hurd

We should be wary of politicians who profess to follow history while only noticing those signposts of history that point in the direction which they themselves already favour.

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

The proprietor, producing neither by his own labor nor by his implement, and receiving products in exchange for nothing, is either a parasite or a thief.

Jim Rohn

Asking is the beginning of receiving...

Audrey Hepburn

It always boils down to the same thing - not only receiving love, but desperately needing to give it.

Simone de Beauvoir

He formed his sentences hesitantly and then threw them at me with such force that I felt as if I were receiving a present each time

Sophia Amoruso

You can't act like you've arrived when you're only just receiving the invitation.

Shawn Fanning

It was very early, and we were still like beta or alpha stage, and so we started receiving a ton of download. The server became overloaded, and that's when I realized that this had a huge market.

Richard Steele

There is no Pleasure like that of receiving Praise from the Praiseworthy

Nicole Kidman

I'm now so much more capable of receiving love and giving it in a far different way.

Jerome Isaac Friedman

I entered the Physics Department in 1950, receiving a Master's degree in 1953 and a Ph.D. in 1956. It is difficult to convey the sense of excitement that pervaded the Department at that time.