Benevolence Quotes · Page 4

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Charity is a song learnt by heart, while altruism is a hymn sung from the heart.

— Anonymous

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

— Herman Melville

“We never think lightly of those who walk with us on our uphill days.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.

— Maria Edgeworth

Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.

— Ellen G. White

Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.

— Plutarch

“If someone has the courage to admit they were wrong, you should have the grace to give them credit for admitting it.…

— James Clear

A heavy guilt rests upon us for what the whites of all nations have done to the colored peoples. When we do…

— Albert Schweitzer

We may scatter the seeds of courtesy and kindness about us at little expense. Some of them will fall on good ground,…

— Jeremy Bentham

Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in…

— John Welwood

“The only difference between us and the professors of virtue or benevolence, or philanthropy - never mind the name - is that…

— Charles Dickens

Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the…

— Mencius

There is in Aristotle an almost complete absence of what may be called benevolence or philanthropy. The sufferings of mankind . .…

— Bertrand Russell

They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

The difference of the degrees in which the individuals of a great community enjoy the good things of life has been a…

— William Herschel

Is it not the interest of the human race, that every one should be so taught and placed, that he would find…

— Robert Owen

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

The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of…

— Herbert Spencer

When I reflect that one man, armed only with his own physical and moral resources, was able to cause this land of…

— Jean Giono

Every soul, the philosopher says, is involuntarily deprived of truth; consequently in the same way it is deprived of justice and temperance…

— Marcus Aurelius

As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is…

— Jim Nollman

Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Selfishness leads to nothingness. Generosity and benevolence leads to great reward,” he explained.”

— J. W. Lord

“general benevolence was one of the leading features of the Pickwickian theory,”

— Charles Dickens

“Benevolence and truth are meant to nourish one another, not to serve as two distinct options. When”

— Kelly M Kapic

You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.

— John Bunyan

Humanity is made up of love, peace, benevolence, sympathy, giving, faith and respect.

— Sfiso MaAphula Ngema

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

— Frederick Douglass

“Success comes in direct proportion to the number of people you help.”

— Will Craig, Living the Hero's Journey

Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.

— George Meredith

Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive

— Samuel Johnson

We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

— Sun Tzu

Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intellect, and benevolence of spirit.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

“For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.”

— Christopher Smart