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Quotes About Benevolence

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.
~ Christina Baldwin
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.
~ Max Beerbohm
We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue.
~ Angela Merici
The results of philanthropy are always beyond calculation.
~ Miriam Beard
He is rich who hath enough to be charitable.
~ Sir Thomas Browne
He that has no charity deserves no mercy.
~ English proverb
Give, if thou can, an alms; if not, a sweet and gentle word.
~ Robert Herrick
The mortal sickness of a mind too unhappy to be kind.
~ A. E. Housman
An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.
~ Sir Philip Sidney
If you have not often felt the joy of doing a kind act, you have neglected much, and most of all yourself.
~ A. Neilen
The fragrance of what you give away stays with you.
~ Earl Allen
My optimism has helped me through some hard times. If you try to send out good things, good things come back to you.
~ Jan Brett
The world and life have been mighty good to me. And I want to put something back.
~ Ted Turner
In other words, a considerable portion of your extraordinary gift comes from the simple fact that you very much want to do good." -Master George
~ James Dashner
Justine," Zoe said, "I don't want to curse anyone." "Of course you don't, you're much too nice. But I don't have that problem.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive.
~ C. S. Lewis
When one treats people with benevolence, justice and righteousness, and reposes confidence in them, the army will be united in mind and all will be happy to serve their leaders.
~ Sun Tzu
When I think my actions will benefit others and not just myself, I find courage where I thought I had none. Holding others in my heart brings an uplifted quality to my actions, and I feel that I am being wise.
~ Susan Piver
magnanimousness.
~ Suzanne Collins
Do something good for someone every day.
~ Jesse White
I believe in one thing: that anyone who is able to do something good for someone, I mean, should be praised.
~ Ravi Shankar