Quotes About Benevolence

A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

You get everything you could have ever wished for if you're willing to give that eternal bliss away to somebody else, to give it back.

Rallapalli used to slip in a hundred rupee note into my shirt pocket before I woke up to help me meet my daily expenses. He is a considerate human being and always helped strugglers.

The Gods themselves cannot recall their gifts.

I think anytime you can affect people in general, in a positive way, then you're a lucky individual.

The erroneous economic belief in scarcity leads directly to the mistaken theological belief that God does not want us to be rich. After all, in a world of scarce physical resources, a person could achieve personal wealth only by taking wealth from another - something that a truly benevolent, loving God would never allow.

I do believe that when you are a good person, good things will happen to you.

I think good things happen to good people.

Think of giving not as a duty but as a privilege.

O thou Sun, send me as far over the earth as is my pleasure and thine, and may I make the acquaintance of good men, but never hear anything of bad ones, nor they of me.

Indeed, nothing but smuggling kept the poor from starving to death under that Government monopoly, benevolently planned for their good.

cosmic benevolence.

If the party was so great and benevolent, why should it be so frightened of dissent or free thinking? Yet, they punished even the slightest opposition.

When you do good by the world, the world will do good by you

Giving, not trading or selling, is the basis of success. The most rewarding thing you can do is just to give the world something good. And ultimately you will be paid so much more for that gift than it you had tried to trade it for something else.

I've learned long ago that a generous person who is wise will never lack for anything.

The essence of love is to give continually, without expecting anything in return.

Love means always praying for greater happiness for everyone.

Be thou generous, and gentle, and forgiving; as God hath scattered upon thee, scatter thou upon others.

That which is really beautiful has no need of anything; not more than law, not more than truth, not more than benevolence or modesty.

Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance and benevolence and everything of the kind. It is most necessary to bear this constantly in mind, for thus thou wilt be more gentle towards all.

From Sextus, a benevolent disposition, and the example of a family governed in a fatherly manner, and the idea of living conformably to nature; and gravity without affectation, and to look carefully after the interests of friends, and to tolerate ignorant persons, and those who form opinions without consideration:

25. Try how the life of the good man suits thee, the life of him who is satisfied with his portion out of the whole, and satisfied with his own just acts and benevolent disposition.