Jeremy Collier Quotes

Mankind can be very magnanimous, given the chance.

I want somebody like my mom. My mom is a very charitable woman. She's the sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for the second sweetest woman in the world. I'm looking for honesty and a big heart.

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

We can overcome evil with greater good.

Righteous is the one who was able to demonstrate compassion in face of human suffering.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

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

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

Good character consists of recognizing the selfishness that inheres in each of us and trying to balance it against the altruism to which we should all aspire. It is a difficult balance to strike, but no definition of goodness can be complete without it.

A princely mind will undo a private family.

Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

The UK public have repeatedly shown enormous generosity to those in need.

I've met a lot of people since I was around four years old, some really big ones along the way, and I don't think I've met anyone who's as generous of spirit as Quentin Tarantino.

Cynics will say there are no good people out there. And if you read the papers and watch TV news you could be convinced of that. But there are good people.

Humanity is the virtue of a woman, generosity that of a man.

One thing must be granted to the rich: they are goodnatured.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

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.

The moral law commands us to make the highest possible good in a world the final object of all our conduct.

The consummate gentleman on the planet today is George Clooney, who never fails to go the extra mile for people. Every person matters to George.

Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

I wanna be a nice guy.

The trouble when you die is that everyone says you were nice. I would like to be thought of as genuinely nice. I would like there to be people who can honestly say, 'Len! Oh yeah, there was more good than bad in him.'