Benevolence Quote by Anonymous

When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness…

— Laozi

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.

— Norm MacDonald

Benevolence means whatever is good for your Spirit.

— Nirmala Srivastava

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

— Confucius

Virtue may be assailed, but never hurt, Surprised by unjust force, but not enthralled.

— John Milton

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Man is naturally self-centered and he is inclined to regard expediency as the supreme standard for what is right and wrong. However, we must…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

[E]xcess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it.

— Vincent de Paul

There are two sorts of content; one is connected with exertion, the other with habits of indolence. The first is a virtue; the other,…

— Maria Edgeworth

Very often the law of extremity demands an attention to irrelevance.

— Janet Frame

For the honest people, relations increase with the years. For the vicious, inconveniences increase. Inconstancy is the defect of vice; the influence of habit…

— Suzanne Curchod

In my own case, who have spent my whole life in the practice of virtue, right conduct from habitual has become natural.

— Sallust