Benevolence Quotes

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.

To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.

Abraham Lincoln

Selfishness leads to nothingness. Generosity and benevolence leads to great reward,” he explained.

J.W. Lord

By lighting another’s candle you brighten your own.

Matshona Dhliwayo

We are all each of us riddles, when unknown one to the other. The plain map of human powers and purposes, helps us not at all to thread the labyrinth each individual presents in his involution of feelings, desires and capacities; and we must resemble, in quickness of feeling, instinctive sympathy, and warm benevolence, the lovely daughter of Huntley, before we can hope to judge rightly of the good and virtuous of our fellow-creatures.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.

Abraham Lincoln

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