Honore de Balzac Quotes

Set your heart on doing good. Do it over and over again, and you will be filled with joy.

If you are not generous when it's difficult, you will not be generous when it's easy. Generosity is a function of the heart, not the wallet.

I am inspired when I see goodness in other people.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

For even in dreams a good deed is not lost.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

We often equate charity with visiting the sick, taking in casseroles to those in need, or sharing our excess with those who are less fortunate. But really, true charity is much, much more. Real charity is not something you give away; it is something that you acquire and make a part of yourself. And when the virtue of charity becomes implanted in your heart, you are never the same again.

Kindness nobler ever than revenge.

A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes.

I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly - in a good way.

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

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Do good to another man, even when they do not do you good; another will certainly do you good. if there is still shame and fear in one's heart to do good, there will certainly be no progress at all.

A woman who wants a charitable heart wants a pure mind.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.

May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

I know what real courage is, and I understand true compassion.

The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.

The man of sensibility is too busy talking about his feelings to have time for good deeds.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Not always actions show the man; we find who does a kindness is not therefore kind.