Lao Tzu Quotes

Whoever can, should.

Charity begins at home, is the voice of the world.

An honest public servant can't become rich in politics. He can only attain greatness and satisfaction by service.

Charity means love towards the neighbor and compassion, for anyone who loves his neighbor as himself also has as much compassion for him in his suffering as he does for himself in his own.

There is a need for heroism in American life today.

Love gives without taking

All that you give to others you are giving to yourself.

It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been "had for a sucker" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need.

Love is forgiving and Love is for giving.

A brother with small earnings may ask,''Should I also give? My earning are already so small that my family can barely make ends meet.'' My reply is, ''Have you ever considered that the very reason your earnings remain so small may be because you spend everything on yourself? If God gave you more, you would only use it to increase your own comfort instead of looking to see who is sick or who has no work at all that you might help them.

Servant leadership teaches us that you have to lay your cards on the table.

Love isn't love until you give it away.

We do a lot of things for reasons besides profit motive. We want to leave the world better than we found it.

A person acting from a motivation of contribution and service rises to such a level of moral authority that worldly success is a natural result.

The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'

When the end comes, you will be esteemed by the world and rewarded by God, not because you have won the love and respect of the princes of the earth, however powerful, but rather for having loved, defended and cherished one such as I. What you receive from others is a testimony to their virtue; but all that you do for others is the sign and clear indication of your own.

If performed in the right spirit, there is no higher worship than the unpurchased service to another soul of whatever faith, belief, or social stratum. The Savior of the world said it simply, "Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me" (Matt. 25:40).

Charity even for one person does not make sense except in terms of an effort to love all Creation in response to the Creator's love for it.

I urge one and all to live this life as if there is no reward in the afterlife and to do it in a moral way that makes it better for you and for those around you, and that leaves this world a little better place than when you found it.

ANYONE WHO GIVES ANYTHING—TIME, MONEY, EXPERIENCE, SKILLS, AND NETWORKS—IN ANY AMOUNT, TO CREATE A BETTER WORLD.

Beauty grows in you to the extent that love grows, because charity itself is the soul's beauty.

Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves.

We love everything on our own account; we even follow our own taste and inclination when we prefer our friends to ourselves; and yet it is this preference alone that constitutes true and perfect friendship.

Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?

Love never claims, it ever gives.