Alexander Pope Quotes

If you have money, and you help people, you don't talk about it. Just do it.

I want to help people in need, but I don't want people to know I'm doing it.

It's just not our style to put our names on the philanthropy we've done. It's not in the Jewish tradition of tzedakah.

I already do some charity, but I don't necessarily talk about it. That doesn't mean I don't do it.

Let him that hath done the good office conceal it; let him that received it disclose it.

My dad and mom believed that you do what you have to do in private and don't make a big deal out of it. Just try to help people as much as you can.

I don't think you get successful to brag and throw what you have in the world's face. That's all private.

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.

The happiest ones are those who have a character which would prefer their services to be unknown to all generations.

Stay humble and be concerned for the less fortunate.

I don't have anything to hide, but prefer to shine the spotlight on others.

I don't usually talk about the social work I do because I don't do it for publicity. If I can bring a smile to the face of a few children in this one lifetime, I'd be happy.

I go out of my way to help people, but I don't tell people. Goodness is not about beating your own drum.

If you aren't humble, whatever empathy you claim is false and probably results from some arrogance or the desire to control. But true empathy is rooted in humility and the understanding that there are many people with as much to contribute in life as you.

We have always been a family that's given back. We just don't make a lot of noise about it.

it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it.

it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Mitt doesn't like to talk about how he has helped others because he sees it as a privilege, not a political talking point.

Robin Williams was the kind of generous person who would do things but not want to receive public credit for it.

Generosity wins favour for everyone, especially when it is accompanied by modesty.

Keep it, keep it!" I answered. "You are very welcome to it! It is only a couple of small things, doesn't amount to anything—about everything I own in the world.

Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor.

To give without any reward, or any notice, has a special quality of its own.

The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

Personally, I think humility is a prerequisite to being a truly empathic person.