Quotes about Kindness

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others.

In elementary school, we all say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, then don't say anything at all.' In high school, we should say, 'If you don't have anything nice to say, shut your mouth.' So that's what I'm telling high schools all around the world.

As it is more blessed to give than receive, so it must be more blessed to receive than to give back.

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.

I expect to pass through life but once. If, therefore, there can be any kindness I can show, or any good thing that I can do to any fellow-being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.

You never get a blessing for yourself. You get a blessing to bless others. In the words of the black church, "a blessing can't get to you unless it first can go through you." We are blessed to bless.

All that matters is what we do for each other.

It is the one of the great secrets of life that those things are most worth doing,we do for others.

If you pardon all the evil done to you, you encourage others to do you evil! If you give your cloak to him who steals your coat, how long will it be, before your shirt and trousers will go also?

Consideration for others is the basis of a good life, a good society.

Each time we act to improve the life of another person, we send forth a ripple of hope in what appears to be a hopeless society.