Quotes about Beneficence
You can do more good by being good than any other way.
- John Wooden
As to diseases, make a habit of two things — to help, or at least, to do no harm.
- Hippocrates
You can do more good by being good than any other way.
- John Wooden
He doth much who loveth much. He doth much who doth well. He doth well who ministereth to the public good rather than to his own.
- Thomas a Kempis
Charity is the root of all good works.
- St. Augustine
As the sun, when he rises upon the earth, liberally imparts his rays of light to all, so did Constantine, proceeding at early dawn from the imperial palace, and rising as it were with the heavenly luminary, impart the rays of his own beneficence to all who came into his presence.
- Eusebius of Caesarea
By staying focused on what I intend to create, by believing that the universe is all-providing, and by knowing that I'm worthy of the unlimited beneficence of the Source of being, I just keep attracting prosperity to me.
- Wayne Dyer
Surplus wealth is a sacred trust to be managed for the good of others.
- Andrew Carnegie
I trust, and I recognize the beneficence of the power which we all worship as supreme- Order, Fate, the Great Spirit, Nature, God. I recognize this power in the sun that makes all things grow and keeps life afoot. I make a friend of this indefinable force…this is my religion of optimism.
- Helen Keller
Like the rest of the devout, he was incapable of understanding that the Holy One's face is never turned away but constantly looks down on all creatures with a beneficence that they are too busy apologizing for their unworthiness and performing their good works and assuring Heaven of their unfailing devotion to notice.
- Frederick Buechner
Let us not be unmindful that liberty is power: that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must, in proportion to its numbers, be the most powerful nation on earth, and that the tenure of power by man is, in the moral purpose of his Creator, upon condition that it shall be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men.
- John Quincy Adams
Do all the good you can, in all the ways you can, to all the souls you can, in every place you can, with all the zeal you can, as long as ever you can.
- John Wesley