Benevolence Quote by Hosea Ballou Download Open image “How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!” — Hosea Ballou ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Benevolence Benevolent Consciousness Done Inspirational
Benevolent desires, after passing a certain point, can not undertake their own fulfillment without incurring the risk of evils beyond those sought to be… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
There is a tendency among many shallow thinkers of our day to teach that every human act is a reflex, over which we do… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
In a virtuous and free state, no rewards can be so pleasing to sensible minds, as those which include the approbation of our fellow… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“People usually consider an active and proactive approach as a human virtue. However, sometimes doing nothing is the best choice we can make. If… — Eraldo Banovac Copy Share Image
I am free to choose my own actions. Indeed, like everyone else, I must be so. A good act that is compelled is not… — Cameron Dokey Copy Share Image
There is no act, however trivial, but has its train of consequences. — Samuel Smiles Copy Share Image
“when the highest virtues of mankind cannot be accomplished fully through voluntary actions, the greater good demands that the government compel people to do… — S.W. Southwick Copy Share Image
There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Above all things, lose no occasion of exercising your dispositions to be grateful, to be generous, to be charitable, to be humane, to be… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Envy may justly be called "the gall of bitterness and bond of iniquity;" it is the most acid fruit that grows on the stock… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Be circumspect in your dealings, and let the seed you plant be the offspring of prudence and care; thus fruit follows the fair blossom,… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Honest and courageous people have very little to say about either their courage or their honesty. The sun has no need to boast of… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
The cloudy weather melts at length into beauty, and the brightest smiles of the heart are born of its tears. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Servility is disgusting to a truly noble character, and engenders only contempt. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Too many people embrace religion from the same motives that they take a companion in wedlock, not from true love of the person, but… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Man, being not only a religious, but also a social being, requires for the promotion of his rational happiness religious institutions, which, while they… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
There is one court whose findings are incontrovertible, and whose sessions are held in the chambers of our own breast. — Hosea Ballou 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 of compassion,… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
I rejoice that the reign of Christ is such, while it thrills the soul with emotions, and opens before the highest intellect the most… — Matthew Simpson 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 objects of… — Walter E. Williams Copy Share Image
The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities… — Emmanuel des Essarts Copy Share Image
Conservatives say the government can't end poverty by force, but they believe it can use force to make people moral. Liberals say government can't… — Harry Browne Copy Share Image
The individualism of current economic theory is manifest in the purely self-interested behaviour it generally assumes. It has no real place for fairness, malevolence,… — Herman E. Daly Copy Share Image
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Want compassion is not to be numbered among the general faults of mankind. The black ingredient which fouls our disposition is envy. Hence our… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness. — Sun Tzu 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; the other… — Martial Copy Share Image
There is in St. Paul's definite, soul-stirring assertion of the wrath of God and the reality of the judgment at hand, a truth more… — Roland Allen Copy Share Image
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