Generous
Of honorable birth or origin; highborn.
Exhibiting those qualities which are popularly reregarded as belonging to high birth; noble; honorable; magnanimous; spirited; courageous.
Open-handed; free to give; not close or niggardly; munificent; as, a generous friend or father.
Characterized by generosity; abundant; overflowing; as, a generous table.
Full of spirit or strength; stimulating; exalting; as, generous wine.
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Generous Quotations
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
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
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
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
Robert A. Heinlein
Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.
Alexander Pope
There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.
Robert Frost
The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire.
Edgar Allan Poe
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
There is no place, no country, more compassionate more generous more accepting and more welcoming than the United States of America.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Generous Translations
generous in Danish is gavmild
generous in Dutch is royaal, genereus, gul, goedgeefs
generous in Italian is liberale, liberale
generous in Latin is liberalis
generous in Portuguese is generoso
generous in Spanish is dadivoso, generoso, rumbon
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