BENEVOLENCE QUOTES [BLOG#3]

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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EMPATHY QUOTES [BLOG #2]

EMPATHY QUOTES

  1. One of the most important aspects of being a human being, is being able to be in a relationship. Being able to successfully form and maintain a relationship. And at the heart of that capability is the capacity to put yourself in somebody else’s shoes, to see the world as how they see it. That capacity is empathy. – Bruce Perry
  2. This capacity for empathy leads to a genuine encounter – we have to progress toward this culture of encounter – in which heart speaks to heart. – Pope Francis


  1. The state of empathy, or being empathic, is to perceive the internal frame of reference of another with accuracy and with the emotional components and meanings which pertain thereto as if one were the person. – Carl Roger
  2. Empathy is forgetting oneself in the joys and sorrows of another, so much so that you actually feel that the joy or sorrow experienced by another is your own joy and sorrow. Empathy involves complete identification with another.  – Dada Vaswani


  1. If you find yourself saying ‘But I’m just being honest’, chances are you’ve just been unkind. Honesty doesn’t heal. Empathy does. – Dan Waldschmidt
  2. All men are born firstly with the instinct to protect themselves. But few grow to really love themselves, and even fewer learn to love their neighbor as themselves. – Criss Jami


  1. If you look into someone’s face long enough, eventually you’re going to feel that you’re looking at yourself. – Paul Auster
  2. An exchange of empathy provides an entry point for a lot of people to see what healing feels like. – Tarana Burke


Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eye for an instant? – Henry David Thoreau

The greatest cruelty is our casual blindness to the despair of others. – Anonymous


  1. Empathy is the greatest virtue. From it, all virtues flow. Without it, all virtues are an act. – Eric Zorn
  2. I do not ask the wounded person how he feels, I myself become the wounded person. – Walt Whitman


  1. All I ever wanted was to reach out and touch another human being not just with my hands but with my heart. – Tahereh Mafi
  2. Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart’s revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. – Jonathan Franzen


  1. We need to teach our children empathy and care and love and communication and social responsibility in preparation for adulthood. – Maya Soetoro-Ng
  2. When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. – Criss Jami


  1. If bullies actually believe that somebody loves them and believes in them, they will love themselves, they will become better people, and many will even become saviors to the bullied. – Dan Pearce
  2. Practicing kindness increases our ability to be empathetic. It helps keep our hearts open. And that, truly, is the best way to live. – Kristi Bowman


  1. The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy, we can all sense a mysterious connection to each other. – Meryl Streep
  2. Empathy begins with understanding life from another person’s perspective. Nobody has an objective experience of reality. It’s all through our own individual prisms. – Sterling K. Brown


  1. Yet, taught by time, my heart has learned to glow for other’s good, and melt at other’s woe. – Homer
  2. Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around. – Leo Buscaglia


  1. Have compassion and empathy in your heart. Many people are suffering deep emotional anguish beneath the surface of their lives, and smile even as they hurt inside. – Jim Palmer
  2. If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. – Frederick Buechner


  1. Empathy means both understanding others on their own terms and bringing them within the orbit of one’s own experience. – Jacob A. Belzen
  2. To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love. – Stephen Bachelor


  1. If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. – Karen Armstrong
  2. Judge tenderly, if you must. There is usually a side you have not heard, a story you know nothing about, and a battle waged that you do not have to fight. – Traci Lea Larussa


  1. The only time you look in your neighbor’s bowl is to make sure that they have enough. You don’t look in your neighbor’s bowl to see if you have as much as them. – Louis C.K.
  2. The real test of love is loving those who we feel are the hardest ones to love. – Criss Jami


  1. Empathy is really the opposite of spiritual meanness. It’s the capacity to understand that every war is both won and lost. And that someone else’s pain is as meaningful as your own. – Barbara Kingsolver
  2. Empathy is one of humankind’s prized possessions. Acts of consideration and kindness are inevitable when a person can mentally step into someone else’s shoes. Even if it’s just for a moment. – Izey Victoria Odiaze

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INSPIRING QUOTES ! [BLOG #1]

INSPIRING QUOTES

  1. “Success is the sum of small efforts – repeated day in and day out.” – Robert Collier
  2. “Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.” – Albert Schweitzer
  3. “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” – Albert Einstein


  1. “Success consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.” – Winston Churchill
  2. “Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it.” – Bruce Lee


  • “Nothing is impossible. The word itself says ‘I’m possible!'” — Audrey Hepburn
  •  “Keep your face always toward the sunshine, and shadows will fall behind you.” — Walt Whitman


  1. “Coming together is a beginning; keeping together is progress; working together is success.” – Edward Everett Hale
  2. “If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself.” – Henry Ford


“Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference.” — Winston Churchill

“To bring about change, you must not be afraid to take the first step. We will fail when we fail to try.” — Rosa Parks


  • “All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.” — Walt Disney
  • “Don’t sit down and wait for the opportunities to come. Get up and make them.” — Madam C.J. Walker


  • “Champions keep playing until they get it right.” — Billie Jean King
  • “I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.” — Serena Williams


  1. “There is a price to pay for success, there is also a price to pay for failure. The question is, what price are you willing to pay?” ― Fela Bank-Olemoh
  2. “Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.” – Suzy Kassem


  • “You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” — C.S. Lewis
  • “It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.” — Aristotle


  • “Believe you can and you’re halfway there.” — Theodore Roosevelt
  • “Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.” — Anaïs Nin


  • “Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.” — Ella Fitzgerald
  • “Try to be a rainbow in someone’s cloud.” — Maya Angelou


  • “If you don’t like the road you’re walking, start paving another one.” — Dolly Parton
  • “Real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.” — Ruth Bader Ginsburg


  • “All dreams are within reach. All you have to do is keep moving towards them.” — Viola Davis
  • “It is never too late to be what you might have been.” — George Eliot


  1. “Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.” – Confucius
  2. “I can accept failure, everyone fails at something. But I can’t accept not trying.” – Michael Jordan


  1. “Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.” – Henry Ford
  2. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill


  • “When you put love out in the world it travels, and it can touch people and reach people in ways that we never even expected.” — Laverne Cox
  • “Give light and people will find the way.” — Ella Baker


  1. “Energy and persistence conquer all things.” – Benjamin Franklin
  2. “Persistence can change failure into extraordinary achievement.” – Matt Biondi


  1. “Ambition is the path to success. Persistence is the vehicle you arrive in.” – Bill Bradley
  2. “Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.” – Colin Powell


  • “Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined.” — Toni Morrison
  • “When you have a dream, you’ve got to grab it and never let go.” — Carol Burnett


  • “When it comes to luck, you make your own.” — Bruce Springsteen
  • “If you’re having fun, that’s when the best memories are built.” — Simone Biles
  • “Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.” — Truman Capote

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