General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“Choose altruism, because selfishism is a lonely, cold, dark hole.” — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Ninja should have the benevolence to protect men of justice since there are lots of good and respectable people in the world. — Masaaki Hatsumi Copy Share Image
The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid. — Confucius Copy Share Image
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can. — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself. — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
A man should fear when he enjoys only the good he does publicly. Is it not, publicity rather than charity, which he… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In the actual state of social relationships, the forms ("formes", Fr.) of politeness are necessary as a subsitute to benevolence. — African Spir Copy Share Image
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality, and benevolence;… — Martial Copy Share Image
Surely happiness is reflective, like the light of heaven; and every countenance, bright with smiles, and glowing with innocent enjoyment, is a… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“Every manmade disaster begins when one man thinks for another. However benevolent they begin, the ultimate outcome is tyranny.” — John Kramer Copy Share Image
Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Religion, charity, pure benevolence, and morals, mingled up with superstitious rites and ferocious cruelty, form in their combination institutions the most powerful… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is… — Jim Nollman Copy Share Image
When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of… — Jean Giono Copy Share Image
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Elect me to office. I will protect and defend the U.S. Constitution. Because there's no constitutional authority for Congress spending on the… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a… — William Herschel Copy Share Image
As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; (2) They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straight forwardness; (3)… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
Every account of a higher power that I've seen described, of all religions that I've seen, include many statements with regard to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Benevolence today has become altogether too huge an undertaking to be conducted otherwise than on business lines. — Julius Rosenwald Copy Share Image
“The only difference between us and the professors of virtue or benevolence, or philanthropy - never mind the name - is that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground,… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
If you aren't creeped out by the No Birth Control Left Behind rhetoric of the White House and Planned Parenthood, you aren't… — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
Were the superfluities of a nation valued, and made a perpetual tax or benevolence, there would be more alms-houses than poor, schools… — William Penn Copy Share Image
The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my… — Confucius Copy Share Image
In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
The task of preserving and advancing the highest humanity, given to this earth by the benevolence of the Almighty, seems a truly… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Half the misery of human life might be extinguished if men would alleviate the general curse they lie under by mutual offices… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Self-love, in a well-regulated breast, is as the steward of the household, superintending the expenditure, and seeing that benevolence herself should be… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Kind words are benedictions. The are not only instruments of power, but of benevolence and courtesy; blessings both to the speaker and… — Arthur Frederick Saunders Copy Share Image
It is wise statesmanship which suggests that in time of peace we must prepare for war, and it is no less a… — Clara Barton Copy Share Image
