Quotes About Kindness

Keep your Christmas-heart open all the year round.

There are few things in the world more blinding than race prejudice, and there are but few things more inflexible and persistent. Against the claims of truth and justice, to say nothing of brotherly kindness, it stands like a wall of brass. Reason and common sense dash themselves against it in vain.

Cookies are made of butter and love.

Make lunch, not war.

Count your joys instead of your woes; Count your friends instead of your foes.

There is so much good in the worst of us, And so much bad in the best of us, That it ill behooves any of us To find fault with the rest of us.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people. Lacking any other purpose in life, it would be good enough to live for their sake.

There are many ways of doing good, such as little deeds of kindness, little words of encouragement and affection. By these gifts which are not bought with gold or silver, we can make others happy; not only at Christmas, but all year. If we made a practice of giving such gifts every day would be Christmas...

Nothin's as mean as givin' a little child somethin' useful fer Christmus.

Don't let your hatred gossip.

I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of every body.

Gratitude is the music of the heart, when its chords are swept by the breeze of kindness.

Who does not thank for little will not thank for much.

...and mighty proud I am, and ought to be thankful to God Almighty that I am able to have a spare bed for my friends.

If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also.

If you want to be happy, be kind to others.

We cannot afford to be anchorites. There is no such thing as being happy ourselves unless we make others happy.

Hating withers your heart. Hearts that don't pump love, atrophy.

A loving heart heals hate.

His heart beats only love — not a drop of hate-tinged blood in his body.

It is in the heart that the values lie. I wish I could make him understand that a loving heart is riches, and riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty.

Let the rays of your heart shine on all who pass by.

Even though your broken heart may never heal, bless those who help hold together the pieces.

Charity sees the need, not the cause.