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Quotes About Benevolence

I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better.
~ Oprah Winfrey
Each of us has more opportunities to do good and to be good than we ever use.
~ Spencer W. Kimball
Malice will always find bad motives for good actions. - Shall we therefore never do good?
~ Thomas Jefferson
The prayers of all good people are good.
~ Willa Cather
.......Is there any reward for good, other than good.
~ Farooq A. Shiekh
The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.
~ Voltaire
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
~ Adam Smith
Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.
~ John Updike
Doing great things for others is an awesome gift to give yourself.
~ Robin Sharma
If you want happiness for a year, inherit a fortune. If you want happiness for a lifetime, help someone else.
~ Confucius
All happiness comes from the desire for others to be happy.
~ Shantideva
To wish happiness for others, even for those who want to do us harm, is the source of consummate happiness.
~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
The good we do today becomes the happiness of tomorrow.
~ William James
Fill the cup of happiness for others, and there will be enough overflowing to fill yours to the brim.
~ Rose Pastor Stokes
All the happiness there is in this world Arises from wishing others to be happy. And all the suffering there is in this world Arises from wishing oneself to be happy.
~ Shantideva
Seek to do good, and you will find that happiness will run after you.
~ James Freeman Clarke
Once again...welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring.
~ Bram Stoker
All the happiness there is in the world arises from wishing others to be happy.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.
~ Denis Diderot
Happiness springs from doing good and helping others.
~ Plato
The source of all happiness lies in thinking of others.
~ Shantideva
I have found that the only thing that does bring you happiness is doing something good for somebody who is incapable of doing it for themselves.
~ David Letterman
Make us happy and you make us good.
~ Robert Browning
He who is good is happy.
~ William Habington