Quotes About Kindness

Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.

It is well enough, when one is talking to a friend, to lodge in an odd word by way of counsel now and then; but there is something mighty irksome in its staring upon one in a letter, where one ought to see only kind words and friendly remembrances.

Animals are such agreeable friends; they ask no questions, pass no criticisms.

He who praises another enriches himself far more than he does the one praised. To praise is an investment in happiness. The poorest human being has something to give that the richest could not buy.

Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck.

The one sure means of dealing with boredom is to care for someone else, to do something kind and good.

You are never giving, nor can you ever give, enough service.

If you think about what you ought to do for other people, your character will take care of itself.

Generous people are rarely mentally ill people.

Charity is the perfection and ornament of religion.

Though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.

And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

That charity which longs to publish itself, ceases to be charity.

I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat; I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink; I was a stranger, and ye took me in.

Charity shall cover the multitude of sins.

Our charity begins at home, And mostly ends where it begins.

I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own, Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.

Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.

Civilization is just a slow process of learning to be kind.

God loveth the clean.

Look for a sweet person. Forget rich.

Of all the paths [that] lead to a woman's love Pity's the straightest.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

No emergency excuses you from exercising tolerance.