Benevolence Quote by Mark Twain Download Open image “We do no benevolences whose first benefit is not for ourselves” — Mark Twain ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Benevolence Kindness
At some point, we realize that what we do for ourselves benefits others, and what we do for others benefits us. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The more we take the welfare of others to heart and work for their benefit, the more benefit we derive for ourselves. This is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“If you do something to benefit one person, that is an absolute gain, and its relative insignificance in the wider scheme is irrelevant. Benefit… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
We shall have to practise to lead our life on the basis of our needs, not under the influence of our greed. — Lobsang Tenzin Copy Share Image
Deterimination and will equals success and happiness. We must not take ANYTHING for granted. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work… — Jose Marti Copy Share Image
When we obey God, we are not doing Him a favor but ourselves because the benefits are ours to reap. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
In the performance of a good action, we not only benefit ourselves, but we confer a blessing upon others. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
First of all, merely by living a simple life with a heart dedicated to overcoming self-cherishing, we automatically benefit others. — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
We can benefit others through our actions by being warm and generous toward them, by being charitable, and by helping those in need. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Sing like no one's listening, love like you've never been hurt, dance like nobody's watching, and live like its heaven on earth. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The Creator sat upon the throne, thinking. Behind him stretched the illimitable continent of heaven, steeped in a glory of light and color; before… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“As far as I can see, Italy, for fifteen hundred years, has turned all her energies, all her finances, and all her industry to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Begin with the determination to succeed and the work is half done already. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Many public-school children seem to know only two dates—1492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most… — Matthew Simpson Copy Share Image
Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the objects of… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities… — Emmanuel des Essarts Copy Share Image
Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence,… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness. — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence; the other… — Martial Copy Share Image
There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
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