Quotes About Kindness

He does good to himself who does good to his friend.

Lead the life that will make you kindly and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over. So in a series of kindnesses there is, at last, one which makes the heart run over.

Politeness is an inexpensive way of making friends.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

The best rule of friendship is to keep your heart a little softer than your head.

Love your friend with his fault.

The essence of true friendship is to make allowance for another's little lapses.

It should be part of our private ritual to devote a quarter of an hour every day to the enumeration of the good qualities of our friends. When we are not active we fall back idly upon defects, even of those whom we most love.

Treat your fiends as you do your picture, and place them in their best light.

Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree.

Nothing is ever lost by courtesy. It is the cheapest of pleasures, costs nothing, and conveys much. It pleases him who gives and receives and thus, like mercy, is twice blessed.

Don't tell your friends their social faults; they will cure the fault and never forgive you.

Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet.

We have no more right to put our discordant states of mind into the lives of those around us and rob them of their sunshine and brightness than we have to enter their houses and steal their silverware.

The wise man's ... friendship is capable of going to extremes with many people, evoked as it is by many qualities.

I make presents to the mother, but think of the daughter.

He gives twice who gives quickly.

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

Let God love you through others and let God love others through you.

What you do not want others to do to you, do not do to others.

What thou thyself hatest, do to no man.

Do unto the other feller the way he'd like to do unto you an' do it fust.

Whatsoever thou wouldst that men should not do to thee, do not do that to them.