Jeff Baena Quotes

I try to be a good person every day. If you didn't like me, there would be something wrong with you, because I really go out and work as hard as I can to help people. I put myself last - always. I'm a giver all the way.

True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.

We should give as we would receive, cheerfully, quickly, and without hesitation; for there is no grace in a benefit that sticks to the fingers.

It costs you something to do good!

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

I have always heard, Sancho, that doing good to base fellows is like throwing water into the sea.

Hell is paved with good samaritans.

The best way to do ourselves good is to be doing good to others; the best way to gather is to scatter.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

I thought to myself, there's a man who gave up his life to serve others - to touch people in that way is probably the greatest thing you can do as a human being.

To me, charity often is just about giving, because you're supposed to, or because it's what you've always done - or it's about giving until it hurts.

Old maids do not mind giving people trouble.

Sometimes you can do things for people other than yourself.

Give [charity] without hope or expectation of any return. To give otherwise, indeed, would scarcely be to give at all, but rather a loan.

A gift consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

The most important thing is you have to want to do something for somebody other than yourself.

Heroes are people who think more of others than themselves. This is not to say that they don't think of themselves. They do. They certainly do. But they think of others more.

I'm no saint, and I don't want to come across like one, but there is not a day that goes by that I'm not doing something for someone else with a very large chunk of my time.

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Charity is without fear: having given all that it has, it has nothing left to lose.

Charity is a naked child, giving honey to a bee without wings.

Embrace every opportunity of exercising kind feelings and doing good to others, especially to the household of faith.

A good deed is a good deed.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

To give alms is nothing unless you give thought also.