Benevolence Quotes · Page 6

Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.

— Charles Dickens

Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.

— Walter Bagehot

“I am little acquainted with politeness, but I know a good deal of benevolence of temper and goodness of heart.”

— Robert Burns

“There must be more than male benevolence as the basis for a woman's well-being.”

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

— John Calvin

The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.

— William Rounseville Alger

Good deeds in this life are coals raked up in embers, to make a fire next day

— Thomas Overbury

“Good words are a vain benevolence that demand no sacrifice and are more appreciated than real acts of kindness.”

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“never appeared ugly to me, for his face, beaming with boundless kindness and benevolence towards mankind, had the stamp of intellectual beauty.”

— George Saunders

I wanted, I think, to acknowledge Luck: the chance of it, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of…

— Paul Newman

Starbucks trying to build a different kind of company around the balance of profitably and benevolence. A social conscience. And that isn't…

— Howard Schultz

The paternal and filial duties discipline the heart, and prepare it for the love of all mankind. The intensity of private attachment…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both…

— Joanna Trollope

He who outrages benevolence is called a ruffian: he who outrages righteousness is called a villain. I have heard of the cutting…

— Mencius

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make…

— Charles Spurgeon

Power rises to the top like cream and dominates the weak with cruelty disguised as -- and often even believed to be…

— Michael J. Sullivan

I think you may judge of a man’s character by the persons whose affection he seeks. If you find a man seeking…

— Charles Spurgeon

First, therefore, [the Jew] goes about making up to the people for his previous sins against them. He begins his career as…

— Adolf Hitler

Business men are to be pitied who do not recognize the fact that the largest side of their secular business is benevolence.…

— Henry Ward Beecher

In the present, the way benevolence is expressed is in conceptualizing the Native as a historical relic; US people have to be…

— Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

Charity in the theatre usually begins and ends with people who have a play opening the week following one's own. Their unlikely…

— Moss Hart

I do not admire a virtue like valour when it is pushed to excess, if I do not see at the same…

— Blaise Pascal

The true value of the Christian religion rests, not upon speculative views of the Creator, which must necessarily be different in each…

— Charles Babbage

The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and…

— Saint Augustine

“Never ascribe to irrational benevolence what selfishness will explain.”

— Yoon Ha Lee

When one door closes another door opens, you must always trust in the benevolence of God.

— Anonymous

There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself; and I don't need you or your benevolence to make…

— Anonymous

Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence.

— Georg Ebers

States strong enough to do good are but few. Their number would seem limited to three.

— Robert Frost

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

— Charles Simmons

“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”

— Abraham Lincoln

You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.

— Zora Neale Hurston

“sympathy, loyalty, benevolence, mercy, humanity, are observed in human beings.”

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful.”

— Richelle E. Goodrich

Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

— Laozi

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

— Robert Wilson Lynd

Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and…

— John Jay Chapman

Love should make joy; but our benevolence is unhappy. Our Sunday-schools, and churches, and pauper-societies are yokes to the neck. We pain…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Extraordinary people usually stand alone and are either remembered for their integrity, ingenuity, benevolence, bravery or stupidity. You have the power to…

— Stephen Mathison