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Letter "G" » generous
«All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred, the safe and just side of a question is the generous and merciful side.»
Author: Anna Jameson
(Essayist)
| About:
Experience,
Learning,
Questioning
| Keywords:
cases, generous, just in case, merciful, ninety, Ninety nine, teaches
«It's hard for a man to live with a successful woman - they seem to resent you so much. Very few men are generous enough to accept success in their women.»
Author: Shirley Bassey
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
generous, live with, resent, resented, resents
«Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last»
«Being generous, just helping one's relatives and being blameless in one's actions; this is the best good luck.»
«Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.»
Author: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(Dramatist, Novelist, Playwright, Poet)
| About:
Generosity,
Kindness
| Keywords:
absent, absents, especially, generous, kindlier, kindliest, kindly
«Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the leader of the world.»
Author: Lao Tzu
(Philosopher)
| About:
Leadership
| Keywords:
courageous, daring, frugality, generous, Leader of, Leader of the
«A generous prayer is never presented in vain; the petition may be refused, but the petitioner is always, I believe, rewarded by some gracious visitation.»
Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
(Author, Essayist, Poet)
| Keywords:
generous, gracious, in vain, petition, petitioner, petitions, presented, refused, rewarded, The petition, visitation
«For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity»
Author: Will Rogers
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
American people, exception, generous, The American
«It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.»
Author: William Somerset Maugham
(Novelist, Playwright, Writer)
| About:
Generosity
| Keywords:
frank, franker, frankest, Franks, Frank and, generous, independent, unhampered
«Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or even s»
Author: Winston Churchill
(Author, Orator, Prime Minister)
| About:
Doing Your Best,
Failure,
Mistakes,
Positive thinking
| Keywords:
acceptance, answer, fierce, fiercer, fiercest, generous, kinds, mere, merest, off, personal, submit, submitting, Taking Off
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