Benevolence Quotes

182 Benevolence quotes by 136 unique authors

You may, if you are an old-fashioned schoolmaster, wish to consider yourself full of universal benevolence and at the same time derive great pleasure from… — Bertrand Russell
Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness. — Richard Mentor Johnson
To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence. — Ann Plato
Oddly my name has been no professional help at all! It seems to have made no difference. I admire him hugely, both for his benevolence… — Joanna Trollope
A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face. — Jimmy Sangster
We like where we live and we wanna participate in our neighbourhoods and communities and stuff and try to- we're not like benevolent- it's pretty… — Jon Fishman
I like them all - I don't always approve. I see myself as a sort of benevolent uncle to these characters, and I can see… — Patrick Marber
To the truly benevolent mind, indeed, nothing is more satisfactory than to hear of a miser denying himself the necessaries of life a little too… — James Payn
If you separate from . . . everything you have done in the past, everything that disturbs you about the future . . . and… — Marcus Aurelius
A gentleman makes friends by learning together with others, and he looks to friends to help him cultivate benevolence. — Zengzi
So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised… — George Washington
At the very time that philosophers of the most enterprising benevolence were founding in Greece those institutions which have rendered it the wonder and luminary… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
The best help that benevolence and philanthropy can give is that which induces everybody to help himself. — Calvin Coolidge
When we are in competition with ourselves, and match our todays against our yesterdays, we derive encouragement from past misfortunes and blemishes. Moreover, the competition… — Eric Hoffer
No matter how accomplished one might be in any branch of learning or art, one would have to be condemned to hell, if on where… — RyÅ«nosuke Akutagawa
The most melancholy of human reflections, perhaps, is that, on the whole, it is a question whether the benevolence of mankind does most good or… — Walter Bagehot
I love to observe Christmas in quietude, humility, benevolence, charity, letting good will towards man, eloquent silence, prayer, and praise express my conception of Truth’s… — Mary Baker Eddy
Mankind was my business... charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business. — Charles Dickens
He who nurtures benevolence for all creatures within his heart overcomes all difficulties and will be the recipient of all types of riches at every… — Chanakya
Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intellect, and benevolence of spirit. — B.K.S. Iyengar
As I love and accept myself exactly as I am, right here and right now with all my so-called flaws and imperfections, I find it… — Louise Hay
Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in… — Samuel Johnson
Who are we really? Combinations of common chemicals that perform mechanical actions for a few years before crumbling back into the original components? Fresh new… — Barbara Mertz
Try your best to treat others as you would wish to be treated yourself, and you will find that this is the shortest way to… — Mencius
Sordid selfishness doth contract and narrow our benevolence, and cause us, like serpents, to infold ourselves within ourselves, and to turn out our stings to… — Walter Scott

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