As the rose breatheth sweetness from its own nature, so the heart of a benevolent man produceth good works.
Robert Dodsley
All things share the same breath – the beast, the tree, the man… the air shares its spirit with all the life it supports.
Chief Seattle
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.
Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.
Confucius
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 step.
Chanakya
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
Mark Twain
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith
Circumstance does not make the man; it reveals him to himself.
James Allen
Every fresh act of benevolence is the herald of deeper satisfaction; every charitable act a stepping-stone towards heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher
General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be.
Jane Austen
We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.
Joseph Joubert
There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.
Henry Fielding
To feel much for others and little for ourselves, that to restrain our selfish, and to indulge our benevolent affections, constitutes the perfection of human nature.
Adam Smith
Benevolence alone will not make a teacher, nor will learning alone do it. The gift of teaching is a peculiar talent, and implies a need and a craving in the teacher himself.
John Jay Chapman
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 benevolence
Mencius
The conqueror is regarded with awe; the wise man commands our respect; but it is only the benevolent man that wins our affection.
William Dean Howells
Benevolence means whatever is good for your Spirit.
Nirmala Srivastava
God will excuse our prayers for ourselves whenever we are prevented from them by being occupied in such good works as to entitle us to the prayers of others.
Charles Caleb Colton
While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.
Oliver Goldsmith
When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.
Laozi
There is no truer cause of unhappiness amongst men than, where naturally expecting charity and benevolence, they receive harm and vexation.
Francois Rabelais
To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.
Ann Plato
A benevolent mind, and the face assumes the patterns of benevolence. An evil mind, then an evil face.
Jimmy Sangster
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
Ezra Stiles
It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.
Aristotle
Rare benevolence, the minister of God.
Thomas Carlyle
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 and his enormous psychological perception.
Joanna Trollope
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 basic.
Jon Fishman
Of neighborhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.
Confucius
Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.
Horace Mann
I believe in benevolent dictatorship provided I am the dictator.
Richard Branson
To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude.
Confucius
Our hands we open of our own free will, and the good flies, which we can never recall.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The entire world shall be populous with that action which saves one soul from despair.
Omar Khayyam
The opportunity of making happy is more scarce than we imagine; the punishment of missing it is, never to meet with it again; and the use we make of it leaves us an eternal sentiment of satisfaction or repentance.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
We should be careful that our benevolence does not exceed our means.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
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
How quickly a truly benevolent act is repaid by the consciousness of having done it!
Hosea Ballou
The mission of the United States is one of benevolent assimilation.
William McKinley
That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.
Charles Caleb Colton
The disposition to give a cup of cold water to a disciple is a far nobler property than the finest intellect. Satan has a fine intellect, but not the image of God.
William Dean Howells
A man’s needs are few. The simpler the life, therefore, the better. Indeed, only three things are truly necessary in order to make life happy: the blessing of God, the benefit of books, and the benevolence of friends.
Thomas Chalmers
Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Nothing teaches character better than generosity.
Jim Rohn
Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.
John Adams
Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Every act, every deed of justice and mercy and benevolence, makes heavenly music in Heaven.
Ellen G. White
You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.
William Blake
Generosity is only benevolence in practice.
Thomas Ken
They who say that we should love our fellow-citizens but not foreigners, destroy the universal brotherhood of mankind, with which benevolence and justice would perish forever.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The highest benevolence acts without purpose.
Laozi
He was so benevolent, so merciful a man that, in his mistaken passion, he would have held an umbrella over a duck in a shower of rain.
Douglas William Jerrold
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
Unfortunately, however, power is sweet, and the man who in the beginning seeks power merely in order to have scope for his benevolence is likely, before long, to love the power for its own sake.
Bertrand Russell
Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.
Sylvia Boorstein
cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.
Khaled Hosseini
The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.
Maria Edgeworth
Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.
Date Masamune
They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.
Sun Tzu
Not knowing that we can be loved for who we truly are prevents us from trusting in love itself, and this in turn causes us to turn away from life and doubt its benevolence.
John Welwood
We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there’s another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.
Terrence Howard
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.
Mencius
Mankind was my business… charity, mercy, forbearance, benevolence, were all my business.
Charles Dickens
I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal.
Nirmala Srivastava
Those who seek to become immortals must regard loyalty, filiality, peacefulness, obedience, benevolence and trustworthiness as fundamental.
Ge Hong
When the Way is lost there is virtue. When virtue is lost there is benevolence. When benevolence is lost there is righteousness. When righteousness is lost there are rituals.
Laozi
No amount of preaching, exhortation, sympathy, benevolence, will render the condition of our working women what it should be, so long as the kitchen and needle are substantially their only resources.
Horace Greeley
Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.
Adam Smith
The benevolence of wrapping the partridge in a vine leaf brings out its quality, just as the barrel of Diogenes brought forth the qualities of the great thinker.
Emmanuel des Essarts
Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.
George Meredith
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