Oliver Goldsmith Quotes

We all have the duty to do good.

Imagine young people would grow up with the feeling that you have to be a hero to do your human duty. I am afraid nobody would ever help other people, because who is a hero?

The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

With wealth, one is in a position of responsibility. You must try to help others. It is as simple as that.

We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.

Your government is still on the same side of the street as the Good Samaritan and not those who pass by on the other side.

I've been given benefits from the day I was born. A loving family. A great education. So I see it as an obligation, as a Christian and as a human being, to help.

Duty is a better guide than stars or statutes.

Charity is to will and do what is just and right in every transaction.

What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

Where there is plenty, charity is a duty, not a courtesy

A person less fortunate than yourself deserves the best you can give. Because of duty, and honor, and service. You understand those words? You should do your job right, and you should do it well, simply because you can, without looking for notice or reward.

My views on charity are very simple. I do not consider it a major virtue and, above all, I do not consider it a moral duty. There is nothing wrong in helping other people, if and when they are worthy of the help and you can afford to help them. I regard charity as a marginal issue. What I am fighting is the idea that charity is a moral duty and a primary virtue.

True generosity is a duty as indispensably necessary as those imposed upon us by the law. It is a rule imposed upon us by reason, which should be the sovereign law of a rational being.

Noblesse oblige; or, superior advantages bind you to larger generosity.

The difference between charity and philanthropy is the distance of the soul... To be philanthropic is to give something, to be charitable is to give one's own heart.

The Sikh gave him the money. When Menon asked for his address so that he could repay the man, the Sikh said that Menon owed the debt to any stranger who came to him in need, as long as he lived. The help came from a stranger and was to be repaid to a stranger.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

I will never do a record without some sense of responsibility.

There is a moral obligation that those who have should give to those who don't.

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

When you give, give from the place of the heart because it is the right thing to do, not the easy thing to do.

I feel that if you are blessed, or lucky enough, to be doing well, you should help others.