Quotes About Benevolence

The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake.

A good deed is the best prayer.

The gratitude that we encounter helps us believe in the goodness of the world, and strengthens us thereby to do what's good.

Giving is the business of the rich.

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

For to give is the business of the rich. [Lat., Denn Geben ist Sache des Reichen.]

Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines.

The Four Limitless Ones Chant May all sentient beings enjoy happiness and the root of happiness. May they be free from suffering and the root of suffering. May they not be separated from the great happiness devoid of suffering. May they dwell in the great equanimity free from passion, aggression, and prejudice.

The moral unity to be expected in different ages is not a unity of standard, or of acts, but a unity of tendency. . . . At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity, and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world. —W. E. H. LECKY, The History of European Morals

No, pero dejé de creer que existían un poder benéfico y un poder malévolo que estaba fuera de nosotros. Y me convencí de que el bien y el mal solo designan las acciones de las personas, no lo que estas son. Solo podemos decir que esta es una buena acción porque beneficia a alguien, y que esa otra es una mala acción porque perjudica a alguien. Las personas son demasiado complejas para ponerles simples etiquetas.

Every dictator in history, from Philip of Macedon to the Tyrant of Asia, claimed to be—and probably was, in his beginnings—motivated solely by benevolence.

Doing something nice for him was easy and immediate and didn't lead to the mountain of junk mail you're punished with whenever you give to an established charity.

Little minds find gratification for their feelings, benevolent or otherwise, by a constant exercise of petty ingenuity.

He that has given today may, if he so please, take away tomorrow.

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.

I can forget injuries, but never benefits.

Nor have I forgotten sir. that the charity of his daughter delivered me from his power. I can forget injuries but never benefits.

Let us say that kindness costs me so little and rewards me well.

Marry," quoth Robin, laughing, and weighing the flask in his hands ere he drank, "methinks it is no more than seemly of you all to be glad to see me, seeing that I bring sight to the blind, speech to the dumb, hearing to the deaf, and such a lusty leg to a lame man. I drink to your happiness, brothers, as I may not drink to your health, seeing ye are already hale, wind and limb.

There is a certain grandeur and nobility in administering to another's need out of one's fullness and plenty.

Looking back on it today, I can see that Ice was giving

The real generosity is when a man does something generous when nobody knows about it.

De quién podemos pensar bien cuando se cree que si no se te hace daño alguno, esto ha sido una amabilidad?