Leo Tolstoy Quotes

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

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

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

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.

It is royal to do good and be abused.

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

It's bizarre to be given an award for being empathetic and kind, which is what we all should be.

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

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

Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

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

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.

I will serve the people in a very humble way.

Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

In the end, I'll put my good acts up against those of anybody in this country. Anybody.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

Being humble matters.

If thou desire the love of God and man, be humble, for the proud heart, as it loves none but itself, is beloved of none but itself. Humility enforces where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail.