SexyMoxieMama Virtue-Liberality

Each week I will post quotes from a different virtue. The last virtue I posted was assertiveness. This week’s virtue is liberality. Liberality is the preference to support progress and personal freedom; being charitable in actions and character.

10 Virtue Wednesday Quotes: Liberality

  1. “Conquer anger by love, evil by good; conquer the miser with liberality, and the liar with truth.”― Gautama Buddha
  2. “However many blessings we expect from God, His infinite liberality will always exceed all our wishes and our thoughts”. – John Calvin
  3. “As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality.” – George Washington
  4. “Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear”. –Horace Mann
  5. “Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man.” –William Shakespeare
  6. “If by a ‘Liberal’ they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people-their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights and their civil liberties-someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a ‘Liberal’, then I’m proud to say I’m a ‘Liberal’.” ― John F. Kennedy
  7. “No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues”. –Giraldus Cambrensis
  8. “There are few doors through which liberality, joined with good humor, cannot find its way.”— Samuel Johnson
  9. “Whenever I hear people talking about liberal ideas, I am always astounded that men should love to fool themselves with empty sounds. An idea should never be liberal; it must be vigorous, positive, and without loose ends so that it may fulfill its divine mission and be productive. The proper place for liberality is in the realm of the emotions.” –Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  10. “Liberality should be tempered with judgment, not with profuseness”. –Hosea Ballou