Quotes About Beneficence

Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.

Philanthropic humility is necessary if a giver is to do more good than harm, but it is not sufficient - philanthropic prudence is also needed.

Doing well is a result of doing good.

Nature, with her customary beneficence, has ordained that man shall not learn how to live until the reasons for living are stolen from him, that he shall find no enjoyment until he has become incapable of vivid pleasure." —GIACOMO LEOPARDI, ITALIAN POET AND PHILOSOPHER (1798–1837), PESSIMIST

I think that was the case here. We just wanted it to be good for everybody.

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

The high-minded man is fond of conferring benefits, but it shames him to receive them.

The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever!

Good sense and good-nature are never separated, though the ignorant world has thought otherwise. Good-nature, by which I mean beneficence and candor, is the product of right reason.

Nature has made nothing in vain.

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

Employ whatever God has entrusted you with, in doing good, all possible good, in every possible kind and degree.

It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good

By doing good, we do well.

Generosity is the flower of justice.

Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.

The only actions that do not cause opposing reactions are those that are aimed at the good of all.

Empieza por legar sus bienes al Hospital Italiano, a condición de que no se los emplee en el sostenimiento de la sala de mujeres, que son, a su juicio, seres en extremo perjudiciales

Eudemonia, on the other hand, is the happiness we get from what we give to the world.

That little walk powerfully reminded me that nature is our touchstone. However sophisticated and technologically advanced we may be, we are biological creatures, utterly dependent on her beneficence for clean air, water and food.

Silence is a door among the doors of wisdom - indeed, silence begets and attracts love, it is the proof of all the beneficiences.

The problem of the tall office building is one of the most stupendous, one of the most magnificent opportunities that the Lord of Nature in His beneficence has ever offered to the proud spirit of man.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as you ever can.