Top 258 Benevolence Quotes & Sayings

I want to acknowledge luck, the benevolence of it in my life, and the brutality of it in the lives of others.

When the great Tao is abandoned, benevolence and righteousness arise.

The person of benevolence never worries.

If the prince of a State love benevolence, he will have no opponent in all the empire.

To remove ignorance is an important branch of benevolence.

In a conquered country benevolence is not humanitarianism. It is a general political axiom that a conqueror must not inspire a good opinion of his benevolence until he has demonstrated that he can be severe with malefactors.

Benevolence, like religion, awes even those it cannot win.

Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man.

There is certainly something of exquisite kindness and thoughtful benevolence in that rarest of gifts,--fine breeding.

Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens.

Asana is perfect firmness of body, steadiness of intelligence, and benevolence of spirit.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence.

Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures.

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.

Youth has a right to go astray now and then Feeling themselves oppressed by the benevolence.

cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same colour.

I call that person the most intelligent who sees the benevolence, the ascent and the ultimate goal.

Abandon benevolence, discard duty, and people will return to the family ties.

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

Rare benevolence, the minister of God.

Wealth is a dangerous inheritance, unless the inheritor is trained to active benevolence.

This is woman's great benevolence, that she will become a martyr for beauty, so that the world may have pleasure.

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.

Good is positive. Evil is merely privative, not absolute: it is like cold, which is the privation of heat. All evil is so much death or nonentity. Benevolence is absolute and real. So much benevolence as a man hath, so much life hath he.

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.

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.

If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil.

The highest benevolence acts without purpose.

Without love, benevolence becomes egotism.

Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

All imposture weakens confidence and chills benevolence.

Benevolence means whatever is good for your Spirit.

The big belly can accommodate all kinds of things. The benevolence is never let a dust behind.

They [spies] cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness.

Dying legacies are a miserable substitute for living benevolence.

Rectitude carried to excess hardens into stiffness; benevolence indulged beyond measure sinks into weakness.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

Capital must be propelled by self-interest; it cannot be enticed by benevolence.

Humanity, perhaps, that quality of benevolence that humans have, without irony, named after themselves.

Power in any Form . . . when directed only by human Wisdom and Benevolence is dangerous.

Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.

Let the professors of Christianity recommend their religion by deeds of benevolence - by Christian meekness - by lives of temperance and holiness.

Now this might disturb you, but I find I'm OK by myself; and I don't need you or your benevolence to make sense.

You smile with pomp and rigor, you talk of benevolence and virtue; I act with benevolence and virtue and get murdered time after time.

It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens.

My description of wisdom has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is to do with being wise in one's own virtue, nothing more. My description of being has nothing to do with benevolence and righteousness, it is that one should be led by one's innate nature, nothing more.

Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.

The unaffected language of real feeling and benevolence is easily understood, and is never ridiculous.

When you have lived as long as I have, the div replied, you find that cruelty and benevolence are but shades of the same color.

Generosity is only benevolence in practice.

There needs no small degree of address to gain the reputation of benevolence without incurring the expense.

That is fine benevolence, finely executed, which, like the Nile, comes from hidden sources.

What I ask for the Negro is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but simply justice.

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.

Mojo grace means the shocking benevolence of a mysterious force beyond our comprehension.

Steadfast benevolence, sustained by the wisdom that anything other than benevolence is painful, protects the mind from all afflictions.

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.

You have no idea, sir, how difficult it is to be the victim of benevolence.

Much benevolence of the passive order may be traced to a disinclination to inflict pain upon oneself.