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Quotes About Kindness

And what more sublime delight than to... share our bread with one to whom misfortune has left none!
~ Thomas Jefferson, 1786
It's not that successful people are givers; it is that givers are successful people.
~ Patti Thor
To fold the hands in prayer is well, to open them in charity is better.
~ French proverb
It's good to be blessed. It's better to be a blessing.
~ Author Unknown
People are marvelous in their generosity if they just know the cause is there.
~ Will Rogers (1879–1935)
Each of us can only do the best we can for as many as we can and that will never be good enough for those of us who care!
~ Rea Cord
Never deprive someone of hope — it may be all they have.
~ Author Unknown
When the weather is hot, keep a cool mind. When the weather is cold, keep a warm heart.
~ Proverb
Hugs grease the wheels of the world.
~ Author Unknown
Hug Department: Always Open
~ Author Unknown
You can't wrap love in a box, but you can wrap a person in a hug.
~ Author Unknown
A hug is like a bandage to a hurting wound.
~ Author Unknown
Sometimes I just want someone to hug me and say, "I know it's hard. You're going to be okay. Here's a coffee and 5 million dollars."
~ Internet meme
Never wait 'til tomorrow to hug someone you can hug today, Because when you give one, you get one right back your way.
~ Author Unknown
Have you hugged someone your appreciation today?
~ Terri Guillemets
Give to every other human being every right that you claim for yourself.
~ Robert G. Ingersoll, 1888
The greatest obscenity is man's inhumanity to man.
~ Howard Moody
Weedon Scott had set himself the task of redeeming White Fang—or rather, of redeeming mankind from the wrong it had done White Fang.
~ Jack London
The wonderful patience of the trail... comes to men who toil hard and suffer sore, and remain sweet of speech and kindly.
~ Jack London
They seemed to share the kindliness and largeness of John Thornton.
~ Jack London
there is only one time that is important—Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else: and the most important affair is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life!
~ Jack London
Mercanti della carità, andate ad imparare dai poveri, perché solo i poveri sono caritatevoli. Loro non danno né negano dal loro sovrappiù, perché di sovrappiù non ne hanno. Loro danno, non negano mai [...]. Dare un osso al cane non è carità. Carità è spartire l'osso col cane avendo fame quanto lui.
~ Jack London
Tirarle el hueso al perro no es caridad. Caridad es compartir el hueso con el perro cuando se está tan hambriento como él
~ Jack London
When you flaunt what you've got, when you intimidate, when you treat people badly, you lose power.
~ Jack Stack