Quotes About Kindness

Giving presents is a talent; to know what a person wants, to know when and how to get it, to give it lovingly and well.

There are times when sympathy is as necessary as the air we breathe.

He who does not live in some degree for others, hardly lives for himself.

In helping others, we shall help ourselves, for whatever good we give out completes the circle and comes back to us.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

The most infectiously joyous men and women are those who forget themselves in thinking about others and serving others.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.

He that will not permit his wealth to do any good for others ... cuts himself off from the truest pleasure here and the highest happiness later.

Power is the ability to do good things for others.

To devote a portion of one's leisure to doing something for someone else is one of the highest forms of recreation.

Live for thy neighbor if thou wouldst live for thyself.

Anything done for another is done for oneself.

Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.

The human being who lives only for himself finally reaps nothing but unhappiness. Selfishness corrodes. Unselfishness ennobles, satisfies. Don't put off the joy derivable from doing helpful, kindly things for others.

There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.

Help your brother's boat across, and your own will reach the shore.

Be unselfish.... If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts us above ourselves.

Happiness ... consists in giving, and in serving others.

Try to forget yourself in the service of others. For when we think too much of ourselves and our own interests, we easily become despondent. But when we work for others, our efforts return to bless us.

Doing good is the only certainly happy action of a man's life.

The greatest happiness in the world is to make others happy.