Quotes About Kindness

What you do for yourself dies with you when you leave this world, what you do for others lives on forever.

Because Christians are the most forgiven people in the world, we should be the most forgiving people in the world as well.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

The words of an old hymn come to mind: But we make His love too narrow By false limits of our own; And we magnify His strictness With a zeal He will not own. For the love of God is broader Than the measure of the mind; And the heart of the Eternal Is most wonderfully kind. --—Frederick William Faber 1814-1863

Ask any decent person what he thinks matters most in human conduct: five to one his answer will be "kindness."

You have to have a spirit of LOVE---Even for your enemies.

How little wives may realize that a biting, stinging word in the morning will rob a husband of efficiency the whole day long. But a loving, tender, beautiful word—a little prayer word—will fill him with music and will lead him into victory.

I know from experience, dear friends, if you're going to walk in health, you're going to have to walk in love and pray for those who persecute you and despitefully use you. Pray for them: That's the best way in the world to overcome the problem.

Notice the Scripture says, "Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing." If they "rail" on you, don't rail on them, "but contrariwise blessing." Blessing, blessing, blessing, blessing.

Come along inside... We'll see if tea and buns can make the world a better place.

The one who comes to question himself cares for mankind.

The mature man lives quietly, does good privately, takes responsibility for his actions, treats others with friendliness and courtesy, finds mischief boring and avoids it. Without the hidden conspiracy of goodwill, society would not endure an hour.

Each of us has a spark of life inside us, and our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

Each of us has a spark of life in us, & our highest endeavor ought to be to set off that spark in one another.

I just hope I can spread some of the happiness that's been coming my way.

The good you do today may be forgotten tomorrow. Do good anyway.

People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

Had we never lov'd sae kindly, Had we never lov'd sae blindly, Never met -- or never parted, We had ne'er been broken-hearted.

The heart benevolent and kind The most resembles God.

Be ever courteous should the case allow--sweet malt is ever made by gentle fire.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the Nation and gentler the face of the world.

There is a God and He is good, and his love, while free, has a self imposed cost: We must be good to one another.

In addition to caring for our future, we must care for those around us. A decent society shows compassion for the young, the elderly, the vulnerable, and the poor.