Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.
~ Joseph Joubert
We are all here on earth to help others what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
~ W. H. Auden
Why is it that when people have no capacity for private usefulness they should be so anxious to serve the public?
~ Sara Jeannette Duncan
I have found men more kind than I expected and less just.
~ Samuel Johnson
Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water and when he has reached ground encumbers him with help?
There is so much good in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us that it's rather hard to tell which of us ought to reform the rest of us.
~ Sign In Springdalea
Good men need no recommendation and bad men it wouldn't help.
~ Jewish Proverb
Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.
~ George Santayana
I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you're naturally kind you attract a lot of people you don't like.
~ William Feather
The good should be grateful to the bad - for providing the world with a basis for comparison.
~ Sven Halla
All strangers and beggars are from Zeus and a gift though small is precious.
~ Homer
Behold! I do not give lectures on a little charity. When I give I give myself.
~ Walt Whitman
If a friend is in trouble don't annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.
~ Edgar Watson Howe
The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and to have it found out by accident.
~ Charles Lamb
As Charles Lamb says there is nothing so nice as doing good by stealth and being found out by accident so I now say it is even nicer to make heroic decisions and to be prevented by 'circumstances beyond your control' from ever trying to execute them.
~ William James
Giving is the highest expression of potency.
~ Erich Fromm
If I knew ... that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good I should run for my life.
~ Henry David Thoreau
If I've learned anything in my seventy years it's that nothing's as good or as bad as it appears.
~ Bushrod H. Campbell
The Devil himself is good when he is pleased.
~ Thomas Fuller
Wise men appreciate all men for they see the good in each and know how hard it is to make anything good.
~ Baltasar Gracián
The only gift is a portion of thyself.
Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactor.
It is one of the beautiful compensations of this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself.
~ Charles Dudley Warner
No man deserves to be praised for his goodness unless he has the strength of character to be wicked. All other goodness is generally nothing but indolence or impotence of will.
~ La Rochefoucauld
We know the good we apprehend it clearly. But we can't bring it to achievement.
~ Euripides
Generosity is the vanity of giving.
My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
~ George Bernard Shaw
For an inheritance to be really great the hand of the defunct must not be seen.
~ René Char
Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.
~ Bertolt Brecht
There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness.
The age of strong belief is over the good is no longer always very good.
~ D. L. Coles
When you cease to make a contribution you begin to die.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
I've helped some of my classmates on how to strategize to get to the next level of their businesses. And it's interesting, because here I am sitting there from the entertainment industry and the fashion industry, and I'm giving a billionaire that has a business that's been in his family for 300 years - I'm giving him advice about strategy!
~ Tyra Banks
Negotiating isn't about getting what you want or giving in to what the other party wants. It's not an 'either/or situation.' It's about having both parties walk away satisfied. Over the years in both business and life, I've had to learn this hard lesson.
~ John Rampton
This is a business built on promotion. We've been giving music away to radio stations for 30 years.
~ Hilary Rosen
Only a monopolist could study a business and ruin it by giving away products.
~ Scott Mcnealy
When it comes down to it, it's giving people a good night out in a basic way and I think my company guarantees that. There's always something new and something to excite us and surprise us, and that's why people come back, I hope.
~ Matthew Bourne
A Trump presidency will turn the economy around and restore the great American tradition of giving each new generation hope for brighter opportunities than those of the generation that came before.
~ Ivanka Trump
I don't know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.
~ Joel Osteen
