Quotes about Kindness

It may sound corny, but it's really true: people don't care how much you know until they know how much you care.

My Influence My life shall touch a dozen lives Before this day is done. Leave countless marks of good or ill, E'er sets the evening sun. This, the wish I always wish, The prayer I always pray; Lord, may my life help others' lives It touches by the way.

Always touch a person's heart before you ask him for a hand.

Maturity is the ability to see and act on behalf of others.

It's been said that great people talk about ideas, average people talk about themselves, and small people talk about others. That's what gossip does. It makes people small. There really is no upside to gossip. It diminishes the person being talked about. It diminishes the person who is saying unkind things about others, and it even diminishes the listener. That's why you should avoid not only spreading gossip but also being a recipient of it.

Jesuit theologian Pierre Teilhard de Chardin said, "The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others." Anyone who has unselfishly helped another person knows this to be true.

Give first, no matter what your circumstances may be.

People are most likely to help us after we have helped them in some way.

You can think the world of others, but if you never actually tell them, then you don't really help them.

If you are willing to make success about giving rather than gaining, you will find your life to be greatly rewarding.

Produce second-mile followers. If you go out of your way to care about others and help them, then they will go out of their way to help you when you ask them to.

if you have a positive, joyous outlook, the joy you share will be returned to you.