Each week I will post quotes from a different virtue. The last virtue I posted was perseverance. This week’s virtue is magnanimity. Magnanimity is the virtue of having greatness of mind and spirit. It typically includes a refusal of pettiness, brave, and noble.
6 Virtue Wednesday Quotes: Magnanimity
“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
“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
“I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we’re also all capable of a sudden magnanimity”–Jim Broadbent
“It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe”–Zachary Taylor
“A wealthy and wise man doesn’t shake hands with people, he gives an helping hand”–Michael Bassey Johnson
“Does the sailor then live in exultation of having conquered the waves, or is he humbled by the magnanimity of the ocean? Does the climber believe that he conquered the mountain, or does he dissolve inwardly and face again and again all the times when the mountain was kind to him who was not even a little rag doll in the clutches of a giant? The craving is to merge, to become One with the mountain, the sea, the forest and the universe” –Zeina Glo
