Quotes of Magnanimity - somelinesforyou

“ Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. ”

- Albert Camus

“ A great man shows his greatness by the way he treats little men. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart. ”

- Corrie ten Boom

“ The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. ”

- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

“ Christmas! 'Tis the season for kindling the fire of hospitality in the hall, the genial fire of charity in the heart. ”

- Washington Irving

“ Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies. ”

- Talmud

“ There is always a way to be honest without being brutal. ”

- Arthur Dobrin

“ If a few companies were less greedy, the people at the bottom woud have a lot more. ”

- Chris Martin

“ It is, indeed, the season of regenerated feeling — the season for kindling, not merely the fire of hospitality in the hall, but the genial flame of charity in the heart. ”

- Washington Irving

“ Do unto others as though you were the others. ”

- Elbert Hubbard

“ We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves. ”

- Mark Twain

“ Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. ”

- Unknown

“ What's mine is yours, and what is yours is mine. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ If you were arrested for kindness, would there be enough evidence to convict you? ”

- Unknown

“ Philanthropies and charities have a certain air of quackery. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, would not have contributed. ”

- Charles Caleb Colton

“ The Maine hospitality and this regatta couldn't be better. ”

- John Kline

“ There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation. ”

- Francois Rabelais

“ Greatness knows itself. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ I want things to be the best they can be. I want greatness. ”

- Demi Moore

“ The love of our neighbour is the same with charity, benevolence, or goodwill: it is an affection to the good and happiness of our fellow-creatures. ”

- Joseph Butler

“ Where the Mind is biggest, the Heart, the Senses, Magnanimity, Charity, Tolerance, Kindliness, and the rest of them scarcely have room to breathe. ”

- Virginia Woolf

“ To wrong those we hate is to add fuel to our hatred. Conversely, to treat an enemy with magnanimity is to blunt our hatred for him. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ In War: Resolution. In Defeat: Defiance. In Victory: Magnanimity. In Peace: Goodwill. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Magnanimity is a noble effort of pride that makes a man master of himself, to make him master of all things. ”

- Francois De La Rochefoucauld

“ The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich. ”

- Saadi

“ The greatest strength of character is magnanimity. ”

- Unknown

“ War is pillage versus resistance and if illusions of magnitude could be transmuted into ideals of magnanimity, peace might be realized. ”

- Marianne Moore

“ What makes saintliness in my view, as distinguished from ordinary goodness, is a certain quality of magnanimity and greatness of soul that brings life within the circle of the heroic. ”

- Harriet Beecher Stowe
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