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Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.
William E. Gladstone

Happiness, Happy, Both

In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
Lao Tzu

Life, Work, Family

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.
Maya Angelou

Courage, True, Cannot

I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide.
John F. Kennedy

Single, Vote, Pay

The fact is that I find more most men are more open, more generous, and much more stimulating than the majority of females I know.
Marilyn Monroe

Men, Find, Fact

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert Frost

Great, Heart, Truly

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Robert A. Heinlein

Life, Good, Happy

A healthy democracy requires a decent society; it requires that we are honorable, generous, tolerant and respectful.
Charles W. Pickering

Society, Democracy, Healthy

The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Edgar Allan Poe

Fire, Reason, Taught

Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Words, Absent, Kindly

Really big people are, above everything else, courteous, considerate and generous - not just to some people in some circumstances - but to everyone all the time.
Thomas J. Watson

Time, Big, Else

The more generous we are, the more joyous we become. The more cooperative we are, the more valuable we become. The more enthusiastic we are, the more productive we become. The more serving we are, the more prosperous we become.
William Arthur Ward

Become, Valuable, Productive

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.
Geoffrey Chaucer

Women, Wise, Wife

We must give more in order to get more. It is the generous giving of ourselves that produces the generous harvest.
Orison Swett Marden

Giving, Give, Ourselves

A hero is somebody who is selfless, who is generous in spirit, who just tries to give back as much as possible and help people. A hero to me is someone who saves people and who really deeply cares.
Debi Mazar

Help, Someone, Hero

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope

I was a personality before I became a person - I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy and driven.
Barbra Streisand

Beautiful, Selfish, Simple

It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham

Work, Enough, Wealth

If we really want to be full and generous in spirit, we have no choice but to trust at some level.
Rita Dove

Trust, Choice, Spirit

There is nothing men are so generous of as advice.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Men, Nothing, Advice

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause; to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame; a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
Edmund Burke

Great, Passion, Fame

Liberals, it has been said, are generous with other peoples' money, except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
William F. Buckley, Jr.

Money, Freedom, Said

Though nature be ever so generous, yet can she not make a hero alone. Fortune must contribute her part too; and till both concur, the work cannot be perfected.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Work, Nature, Alone

There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Country, America, Place

If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
Xun Zi

Through, Others, Gentleman

I am simple, complex, generous, selfish, unattractive, beautiful, lazy, and driven.
Barbra Streisand

Beautiful, Selfish, Simple

The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.
Michel de Montaigne

Courage, True, Virtues

I was born in Europe... and I've traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

Country, America, Place

Lose yourself in generous service and every day can be a most unusual day, a triumphant day, an abundantly rewarding day!
William Arthur Ward

Yourself, Service, Lose

A large nose is the mark of a witty, courteous, affable, generous and liberal man.
Cyrano de Bergerac

Nose, Liberal, Large

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