Quotes About Kindness

Remember, it is not necessary for others to fail in order that you may succeed. The richest persons are those who give most in service to others.

Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you—until you have cultivated the habit of saying some kind word of those whom you do not admire—until you have formed the habit of looking for the good instead of the bad there is in others—you will be neither successful nor happy.

You want to get rich in order that you may eat, drink, and be merry when it is time to do these things; in order that you may surround yourself with beautiful things, see distant lands, feed your mind, and develop your intellect; in order that you may love men and do kind things, and be able to play a good part in helping the world to find truth.

There is no kindness in praise if it be followed by abuse. The love which seems to prompt the spontaneous kiss will be of little account if it be associated with a spontaneous spite.

Take time to be Courteous. Courtesy lightens the burdens of toil. Courtesy demands respect. Courtesy is a little brother to Opportunity and follows her around through the hours of the busy day. Courtesy always leads a man higher up.

Kindness is more powerful than compulsion.

The habit of rendering more service than is expected

love people and serve them.

Gentleness is akin to divinity. Perhaps no quality is so far removed from all that is coarse, brutal and selfish as gentleness, so that when one is becoming gentle, he is becoming divine.

Start by being nice to every person you meet. But if someone tries to exercise power over you, exercise power over him.

Pure generosity is when you help the ingrate. Every other form is self-serving.

The Golden Rule wants you to Treat others the way you would like them to treat you. The more robust Silver Rule says Do not treat others the way you would not like them to treat you.

Life's beauty: the kindest act toward you in your life may come from an outsider not interested in reciprocation.

Being nice counts the most when you are nice to people ignored by others, deprived of attention, or devoid of friends. The rest is largely theater.

Se você não gostar de uma pessoa, deixe-a em paz ou a exclua da sua vida; não a ataque verbalmente.

so that your giving may be in secret. Then your Father, who sees what is done in secret, will reward you.

Just as you should treat others in the way you'd like to be treated, you would like to share the responsibility for events without unfairness and inequity.

porque cuando a alguien le iban mal las cosas sentía siempre un ligero placer que disimulaba bajo un gran afán de ofrecer ayuda (...)

Humanity...I'm a humanity lover. All the broken bastards...

Empathy and compassion, no less than benevolence and cooperativeness, are far more likely to be found among persons of high self-esteem than among low;

Self-acceptance entails the idea of compassion, of being a friend to myself.

It is to the credit of human nature that, except where its selfishness is brought into play, it loves more readily than it hates.

This shall be the last of my benevolent follies, and I will never be kind to anybody again as long as I live.

Angels do not toil, but let their good works grow out of them.