Quotes About Benevolence

If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.

A rich man can afford to be generous to many.

A man may be ungrateful, but the human race is not so.

In few men is it part of nature to respect a friend's prosperity without begrudging him.

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance.

Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.

To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.

Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]

In Giving, a man receives more than he gives; and the more is in proportion to the worth of the thing given.

The sole purpose of being rich is to give away money.

One of the greatest tazkiya (purification) of the nafs (self) is to part with your money and to give it to people who deserve it.

God has no need of your money, but the poor have. You give it to the poor, and God receives it.

By doing good with his money, a man, as it were, stamps the image of God upon it, and makes it pass current for the merchandise of heaven.

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!

Money was made for the free-hearted and generous.

If you have more money than you need, you have to give it away. It's a duty. I get to choose whom to sponsor, and I like to give to the areas that I know something about.

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

It is better not to say "lend." There is only giving.

Money spent on myself may be a millstone about my neck; money spent on others may give me wings like the angels.

Like a mother who protects her child, her only child, with her own life, one should cultivate a heart of unlimited love and compassion towards all living beings.

All the joy the world contains Has come through wishing happiness for others. All the misery the world contains Has come through wanting pleasure for oneself.

Kindness in giving creates love.

In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in giving health to men.

Great people create great acts of kindness.