BENEVOLENCE QUOTES
“The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out.”
― Oscar Wilde
“Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others.
Unsuccessful people are always asking, “What’s in it for me?”
― Brian Tracy
“You have not lived today until you have done something for someone who can never repay you.”
― John Bunyan
“Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.”
― Martin Luther King, Jr
“The simplest acts of kindness are by far more powerful then a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
“I care not for a man’s religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?”
― Eleanor Roosevelt
“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”
― Abraham Lincoln
“Live your life in such a way that you’ll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.”
― Germany Kent
“What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?”
― Confucius, The Analects
The smallest grain of natural honesty and benevolence has more effect on men’s conduct, than the most pompous views suggested by theological theories and systems. –CECILIA GRANT
A beneficent person is like a fountain watering the earth and spreading fertility. –EPICURUS
“One kind deed is more beautiful than a thousand good intentions.”
― Matshona Dhliwayo
“Order and reason, beauty and benevolence, are characteristics and conceptions which we find solely associated with the mind of man.”
― Karl Pearson
As the rose breatheth sweetness from its own nature, so the heart of a benevolent man produceth good works. –ROBERT DODSLEY
How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it. –HOSEA BALLOU
The hands that help are holier than the lips that pray. –ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness. –MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
We rise by raising others–and he who stoops above the fallen, stands erect. – ROBERT G. INGERSOLL
Take egotism out, and you would castrate the benefactors. –RALPH WALDO EMERSON
“Learn from the Sun; on account of its warmth it doesn’t need to beg anyone to esteem it”
― Matshona Dhliwayo
No people do so much harm as those who go about doing good. –MANDELL CREIGHTON
I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. –STEPHEN GRELLET
Wherever the tree of benevolence takes root, it sends forth branches above the sky. –SAADI
But deep this truth impress’d my mind–
Thro’ all His works abroad,
The heart benevolent and kind
The most resembles God. –ROBERT BURNS
Benevolence is a world of itself — a world which mankind, as yet, have hardly begun to explore. We have, as it were, only skirted along its coasts for a few leagues, without penetrating the recesses, or gathering the riches of its vast interior. –HORACE MANN
In nothing do men more nearly approach the gods than in doing good to their fellow-men. –CICERO
Benevolent people are very apt to be one-sided and fussy, and not of the sweetest temper if others will not be good and happy in their way. –ARTHUR HELPS
How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles. –WASHINGTON IRVING
Benevolence is love to all men. It is to know all men. –CONFUCIUS
At one time the benevolent affections embrace merely the family, soon the circle expanding includes first a class, then a nation, then a coalition of nations, then all humanity, and finally, its influence is felt in the dealings of man with the animal world. In each of these stages a standard is formed, different from that of the preceding stage, but in each case the same tendency is recognised as virtue. –W.E.H. LECKY
Vengeful benevolence is what I promised you
A dark and everlasting love. –THE METEORS
No rich man is safe, but in the imitation of that benevolent God, who is the dispenser of all the riches in the universe. –ORVILLE DEWEY
Often have I heard it said, what good thing you do, do not defer it. –ALBERTANO OF BRESCIA
Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. –C. S. LEWIS
The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous. –MARIA EDGEWORTH
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 harm. –WALTER BAGEHOT
Dress yourself in the silks of benevolence because kindness makes you beautiful. –RICHELLE E. GOODRICH
The propriety of cultivating feelings of benevolence toward our fellow-creatures is seldom denied in theory, however frequently the duty may be omitted in practice. –ELIZABETH HAMILTON
Every virtue carries with it its own reward, but none so distinguished and pre-eminent in degree as benevolence. –ROBERT PEDDER BUDDICOM
We talk a lot about kindness and benevolence but our behaviours reflects our animality. –OSHO
Nothing is so wholesome, nothing does so much for people’s looks, as a little interchange of the small coin of benevolence. –RUFFINI
Benevolence always flows from a pure fountain. –ELIZA SUSAN QUINCY
A little common sense, goodwill, and a tiny dose of unselfishness could make this goodly earth into an earthly paradise. –RICHARD ALDINGTON
To feel much for others, and little for ourselves, to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature. –ADAM SMITH
Genuine benevolence is not stationary, but peripatetic. It goeth about doing good. –WILLIAM NEVINS
Benevolence is the distinguishing characteristic of man. As embodied in man’s conduct, it is called the path of duty. –MENCIUS
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