Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani Quotes

A kind and compassionate act is often its own reward.

For the beautiful word begets the beautiful deed.

I would say that when you do something out of the goodness of your heart, and you don't know what the repercussions will be, you have to live with that. And it can be devastating. Because the intention was there.

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.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

I don't mind if my future is long or short, as long as I'm doing the right thing. And as long as I behave for other people.

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 generosity is an offering; given freely and out of pure love. No strings attached. No expectations. Time and love are the most valuable possession you can share.

Every time you get something, give something away.

The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.

Be generous and you can be the best person who ever lived.

You can't beg from people what they're not willing to give you.

You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

My dad was a big believer in treating people well, oftentimes even when he himself wasn't well.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

I just believe in the goodwill of people, the power of people to do something positive.

They talked about me as if I were Mother Teresa, and that every time I get a paycheck I go and send it to poor people and that we spend every free moment helping out people less fortunate. That was an enormous exaggeration.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I wanna be a nice guy.

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