Quotes about Kindness
Not everybody can be famous but everybody can be great because greatness is determined by service... You only need a heart full of grace and a soul generated by love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
On the parable of the Good Samaritan: I imagine that the first question the priest and Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But by the very nature of his concern, the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Everybody can be great; you only need a heart full of grace, a soul generated by love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Asked by a shocked bystander how he could do this, Lincoln said, "Madam, do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?" This is the power of redemptive love.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Life's most urgent question is: What are you doing for others?
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive.He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Truly, the old maid is a most useful person, one of the reserve forces of the community. They talk of the superfluous woman, but what would the poor superfluous man do without her kindly presence?
- Arthur Conan Doyle
I have wrought my simple plan If I give one hour of joy To the boy who's half a man, Or the man who's half a boy.
- Arthur Conan Doyle