Quotes About Benevolence

A saint is a person who gives of themself without asking for anything in return. That's how simple it is to be a saint. Try it! Try being a saint.

Because of these layaway angels, many children did not have to wonder why Santa skipped them in 2011.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Being made to feel like an irrelevant child was probably an asset. Benign negligence is not a bad parental attitude or at least a cross between a benevolent dictator and benign negligence - you should just let kids crack on with it.

A lot of times they don't want to hear it. But you know, if some good is done to you, you should pass it on.

Please to put a nickel, please to put a dime. How petitions trickle in at Christmas time!

Generosity is, by definition, disinterested." (p.157)

He who receives a benefit should never forget it; he who bestow should never remember it.

I am not selfish.

If you can share with the people who've been good to you, do it.

When you do things to try to help people and share things, it really comes back to you. I try to do that.

I'm basically a gift-giver.

with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them;

Please be truthful, but also please be benevolent, please.

that his majesty gave many marks of his great lenity, often

The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.

For Allah is to all people most surely full of kindness, Most Merciful.

and is relentless in his love and mercy and grace toward you.

known in the North as the "slave power." Slaveowners in the Deep South believed in the need for slavery and in their own benevolence as masters.

I have never hurt anyone, and that pays back. I have always wanted good for everyone.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Leaders who allow themselves to be governed by reason will allow themselves to in turn govern their cities benevolently. The uneducated leader, on the other hand, is plagued by greed, paranoia, and a false sense of grandeur.