Quotes About Benefaction

Favours come to us from gods.

Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows, and the more power you have to use it on your behalf. If you do not practice gratefulness, its benefaction will go unnoticed, and your capacity to draw on its gifts will be diminished. To be grateful is to find blessings in everything. This is the most powerful attitude to adopt, for there are blessings in everything.

I am not giving so much of my wealth that I should feel that I am a philanthropist.

Sacrifice, by its nature, was predicated on giving, not receiving.

For whatever a man has, is in reality only a gift.

A man seldom finds people unthankful, as long as he remains in a condition of benefiting them further.

Trajan was ambitious of fame; and as long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

Give, give, give-what is the point of having experience, knowledge or talent if I don't give it away?

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

My Poverty doesn't help anyone, but my wealth helps a lot of people.

Rockefeller's philanthropy was relatively discreet.

Notre déjeuner est un déjeuner philanthropique, et nous aurons à notre table, je l'espère du moins, deux bienfaiteurs de l'humanité. – Comment ferons-nous ? dit Debray, nous n'avons qu'un prix Montyon ? – Eh bien, mais on le donnera à quelqu'un qui n'aura rien fait pour l'avoir, dit Beauchamp. C'est de cette façon-là que d'ordinaire l'Académie se tire d'embarras.

Go to Cleveland Clinic, Mayo Clinic, or any college and you'll see libraries, dormitories, and a lot of buildings that were a result of the generosity of fat cats.

Let him who desires to see others happy, make haste to give while his gift can be enjoyed, and remember that every moment of delay takes away something from the value of his benefaction.

The sun opens the lotuses, the moon illumines the beds of water-lilies, the cloud pours forth its water unasked: even so the liberal of their own accord are occupied in benefiting others.

Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community.

Give what you have to somebody, it may be better than you think.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

No person was ever honored for what he recieved. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

No person was ever honoured for what he received. Honour has been the reward for what he gave.

In life, whatever you give to your society should be more than what you receive from it.

What is a Gift? A Gift is your way of serving the world.

Here come those I have done good to against my will