Quotes About Kindness

There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

He gives twice who gives promptly.

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not.

With compassion, we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

"Honesty" without compassion and understanding is not honesty, but subtle hostility.

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

I've always thought that people need to feel good about themselves and I see my role as offering support to them, to provide some light along the way.

If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.

When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

A little help is worth a great deal of pity.

Our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel.

Giving kids clothes and food is one thing, but it's much more important to teach them that other people besides themselves are important and that the best thing they can do with their lives is to use them in the service of other people.

Live and let live is not enough; live and help live is not too much.

To feel sorry for the needy is not the mark of a Christian-to help them is.

Everyone needs to be valued. Everyone has the potential to give something back.

Sharing what you have is more important than what you have.

The fragrance always stays in the hand that gives the rose.

Be charitable and indulgent to every one but thyself.

Be pretty if you can, be witty if you must, but be gracious if it kills you.

Real unselfishness consists in sharing the interests of others.

Whoever in trouble and sorrow needs your help, give it to him. Whoever in anxiety or fear needs your friendship, give it to him. It isn't important whether he likes you. It isn't important whether you approve of his conduct. It isn't important what his creed or nationality may be.

I was hungered, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in: I was naked, and ye clothed me: I was sick, and ye visited me: I was in prison, and ye came unto me.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

It is more blessed to give than to receive.