Top 36 Quotes About Beneficence
#1. The obligations of law and equity reach only to mankind; but kindness and beneficence should be extended to the creatures of every species, and these will flow from the breast of a true man, as streams that issue from the living fountain.
Plutarch
#2. 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
#3. One act of beneficence, one act of real usefulness, is worth all the abstract sentiment in the world.
Ann Radcliffe
#4. A life in any sphere that is the expression and outflow of an honest, earnest, loving heart, taking counsel only of God and itself, will be certain to be a life of beneficence in the best possible direction.
J.G. Holland
#5. I do not understand a mind which sees a gracious beneficence in spending money to slay and maim human beings in almost unimaginable numbers and deprecates the expenditure of a smaller sum to patch up the ills of mankind.
Harry S. Truman
#6. I cannot see ... evidence of design and beneficence ... There seems to me too much misery in the world.
Charles Darwin
#7. Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the divine beneficence toward us.
John Calvin
#9. The Angels are the dispensers and administrators of the Divine beneficence toward us. They regard our safety, undertake our defense, direct our ways, and exercise a constant solicitude that no evil befall us.
John Calvin
#10. There are few so free from vanity as not to dictate to those who will hear their instructions with a visible sense of their own beneficence.
Samuel Johnson
#11. The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence.
Moses Mendelssohn
#12. We ought to regard ourselves and to act as socialists
believers in the wholesomeness and beneficence of the body politic.
Woodrow Wilson
#13. Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.
Immanuel Kant
#14. Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!
Saadi
#15. Virtue . . . is nearly connected with the heart: I have called it Beneficence; not in the very limited sense that is generally given to the term, but to specify thereby all the actions that emanate from active goodness.
Germaine De Stael
#17. All compassion is lost when healthcare trades beneficence for business.
P.J. Nathan
#18. 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.
Louis Sullivan
#19. We hold that gain after toil, triumph after adversity, achievement to a goal long-sought, is a greater beneficence than prebendary nutrient from the teat of an indulgent government.
Jack Vance
#20. 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!
Henry David Thoreau
#21. The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.
Gautama Buddha
#22. Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.
Jane Addams
#23. I will not trade freedom for beneficence nor my dignity for a handout
Dean Alfange
#24. The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.
Thomas Paine
#25. Beneficence is always free, it cannot be extorted by force.
Adam Smith
#26. The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it 2540 is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested and generous; it is friendship and communion:
The Catholic Church
#27. Long regarded as central to the contemporary understanding of medical ethics are four principles that must be satisfied in order to fulfill the requirements of moral decision-making. These principles are autonomy, justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence.
Sherwin B. Nuland
#28. For we never have naked and empty symbols, except when our ingratitude and wickedness hinder the working of divine beneficence.
John Calvin
#29. 'Knowledge, without common sense,' says Lee, is 'folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death.' But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with charity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace.
Austin Farrer
#30. 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
#31. The great effect of friendship is beneficence, yet by the first act of uncommon kindness it is endangered.
Samuel Johnson
#32. Kindness is twice blessed. It blesses the one who gives it with a sense of his or her own capacity to love, and the person who receives it with a sense of the beneficence of the universe.
Dawna Markova
#33. All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.
Epicurus
#34. Though we may sometimes unintentionally bestow our beneficence on the unworthy, it does not take from the merit of the act. For charity doth not adopt the vices of its objects.
Henry Fielding
#35. It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.
Lyman Abbott
#36. 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
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