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Letter "G" » generosity
«There is overwhelming evidence that the higher the level of self-esteem, the more likely one will be to treat others with respect, kindness, and generosity.»
Author: Nathaniel Branden
| About:
Generosity,
Self-esteem
| Keywords:
esteem, evidence, generosity, high level, level, likely, overwhelming, self esteem, treat
«The way to overcome the angry man is with gentleness, the evil man with goodness, the miser with generosity and the liar with truth.»
«To be rich in admiration and free from envy, to rejoice greatly in the good of others, to love with such generosity of heart that your love is still a dear possession in absence or unkindness - these are the gifts which money cannot buy»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| About:
Generosity,
Gifts
| Keywords:
admiration, envy, generosity, gifts, greatly, possession, rejoice, rich in, unkindness
«Valour, glory, firmness, skill, generosity, steadiness in battle and ability to rule - these constitute the duty of a soldier. They flow from his own nature.»
Author: Bhagavad Gita
| Keywords:
constitute, firmness, flow, flow from, generosity, soldier, steadiness, valour
«Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Generosity,
Giving
| Keywords:
generosity
«Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity.»
Author: Albert Camus
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| About:
Charity,
Generosity
| Keywords:
dispensed, dispenses, dispensing, generosity
«To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue. They are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.»
Author: Confucius
| About:
Generosity,
Heaven,
Virtue
| Keywords:
constitutes, earnestness, generosity, gravity, sincerity
«The poor don't know that their function in life is to exercise our generosity»
«The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God»
Author: John Fitzgerald Kennedy
(President)
| About:
Right
| Keywords:
generosity, hand of God, Rights of Man, the Hand, The Rights of Man, The State
«The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.»
Author: Ralph Waldo Emerson
(Essayist, Lecturer, Poet)
| Keywords:
abide, abide by, by fits and starts, fits, generosity, genuine, heroic, heroism, impulses, persistency, reconcile, resolved, wandering, weakly
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