Quotes About Benevolence

Bill Gates and Warren Buffett have their 'Giving Pledge,' where billionaires promise to give away the majority of their wealth when they die. My Social Security Pledge is better - to give money to good causes when you are alive. Besides, more Americans can participate.

Those of us who have yet to find philanthropy may find there is a far greater reward from it than from wealth creation.

Wealthy people in Australia tend to give, and give very quietly.

If you're in the position to help someone and you do it, it's very rewarding.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

I'm a person who wants to affect a lot of people's lives in a positive way. That's what God put me on earth to do.

There is great potential to use computer vision technology in a constructive and benevolent way.

It costs you something to do good!

I give to panhandlers on occasion, especially around the holidays, but have always been involved with charity, which was an important part of the way I was brought up. My siblings and I knew early on in life that we were incredibly fortunate and have never taken that for granted, so we recognize the importance of giving back.

My message is that giving is very important. Giving is a Jewish thing, and I like to talk about that. There's nothing more important, personally, for anybody than being able to give.

God's blessing is not for personal aggrandizement, but to benefit and bless all the peoples of the earth. To understand the distinction makes all the difference in the world. The theology of wealth says, 'I give so that I can get.' Christian simplicity says, 'I get so that I can give.' The difference is profound.

Your image of yourself is one of a beast. A benevolent one, but a beast nonetheless. As much as this might pain you, it is also easy and familiar. It allows you to do away with deeper emotions.

Could it be that to truly love a thing is not to desire it, but to desire happiness for it?

Small kindnesses often, unintentionally, produce the biggest payoffs.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others.

The well from which we receive grace is only filled by sharing it with others. —CHARLES JAMES'S DIARY

Successful enterprises are usually led by a proven chief executive who is a competent benevolent dictator.

A favor well bestowed is almost as great an honor to him who confers it as to him who receives it.

What love had been given her she wished to give to others. Most times they didn't much want it but hounds, horses, cats, and dogs did and they were a gift from the gods, too.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else. Brian Sibley: Or brains even? Oh gosh, yes, brains is one of the least. You can be a lovely person without brains, absolutely lovely. Kindness - that simple word. To be kind - it covers everything, to my mind. If you're kind that's it.

But deep this truth impress'd my mind: Thro' all His works abroad, The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.

It reminds me of an old Sufi story of a good man who was granted one wish by God. The main said he would like to go about doing good without knowing about it. God granted his wish. And then God decided that it was such a good idea, he would grant that wish to all human beings. And so it has been to this day.

So much easier to give. I detest asking.

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