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Quotes About Benevolence

I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.
~ Trevor McDonald
A good deal of philanthropy arises in general from mere vanity and love of distinction gilded over to others and to themselves with some show of benevolent sentiment.
~ Walter Scott
Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume.
~ Charles Spurgeon
Bahujanahit?ya bahujanasukh?ya lok?nukamp?ya:For the good of the many, for the happiness of the many, out of compassion for the world.
~ Gautama Buddha
What you do for others, God will do for you.
~ Dragos Bratasanu, Ph.D.
Always recompense kindness with hearty love and gratitude.
~ Debasish Mridha
Love boldly.Love boundlessly.Love benevolently.Love blessedly.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Welcome to my house. Come freely. Go safely; and leave something of the happiness you bring!
~ Bram Stoker
Una vez más, bienvenido a mi casa. Ven libremente, sal con seguridad; deja algo de la felicidad que traes.
~ Bram Stoker
Yet "to love" can also mean "to will goodness to something." In this sense it can be fittingly ascribed to God since he freely does this insofar as he brings about the existence of anything.
~ Brian Davies
We reap a reward merely in the act of helping others. We never know how, or if, that reward will come back to us. Helping is the reward; none other is needed nor better.
~ Terry Goodkind
If your love is true love, it will benefit not only humans, but also animals, plants, and minerals. When you love one person, it's an opportunity for you to love everyone, all beings. Then you are going in a good direction, and that is true love. But if you love someone and you get caught up in suffering and attachment, then you get cut off from others. That's not true love.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
I find joy in giving donations.
~ Sudha Murty
I've got a big heart and I believe in good karma.
~ E-40
If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.
~ Douglas Coupland
What I'm looking for in people now is kindness.
~ Robin Wright
Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.
~ George Washington Cable
Using some of your own time to make someone else's life better is, like, the nicest thing you can do for anybody. I almost can't stand it, it makes me so happy.
~ Karen Marie Moning
Philosophers should consider the fact that the greatest happiness principle can easily be made an excuse for a benevolent dictatorship. We should replace it by a more modest and more realistic principle - the principle that the fight against avoidable misery should be a recognized aim of public policy, while the increase of happiness should be left, in the main, to private initiative.
~ Karl Popper
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy.
~ Karl Reiland
What is the use of money if one cannot use it to make one's friends comfortable?
~ G.A. Henty
Binef?c?torii omenirii sunt cei care au imagina?ia r?ului altuia prin har,f?r? nevoia prealabil? a experiment?rii lui pe propria lui piele.
~ Gabriel Liiceanu
Friendship is friendship, and charity is charity.... the people who give you charity are never your friends. It is not possible to receive charity from a friend.
~ Gabrielle Zevin
Money is good for the good it can do for you and for others.
~ Gary Keller