Quotes About Kindness

To me, there are saints every day. They stand up and help others and live for others and do things for others.

I'm definitely an animal lover, and I stand up for all animals' rights.

I'm no expert standing at a podium giving speeches. I share heartbeats. Compassion.

I had the opportunity to go and read to cancer patients in hospitals and saw how something as little as that could make someone's day. I also think it's important to support people who are standing up for a good cause, so that's why I get involved with different campaigns and charities.

T stands for being nice. T stands for manners. T stands for being polite.

Katie Otto goes after stuff she doesn't feel is right, and she stands up for it. I do that too, just kind of in a slightly kinder way because I'm from the South.

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

It's essential that we understand things like the free-rider problem, but we also need to understand that, fortunately, humans are a little nicer than economists give them credit for. Some people actually leave money at roadside fruit stands; some people give money to NPR so we can listen to it.

Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another.

Humility makes our lives acceptable to God, meekness makes us acceptable to men.

The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish.

Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.

No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

The monument of a great man is not of granite or marble or bronze. It consists of his goodness, his deeds, his love and his compassion.

Slowly and painfully man is learning that he must do unto others what he would have them do to him.

In countries where there is a mild climate, less effort is expended on the struggle with nature and man is kinder and more gentle.

To love our neighbor in charity is to love God in man.

Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself

The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men.

I have always believed that the Good Samaritan went across the road to the wounded man just because he wanted to.

No man is so poor as to have nothing worth giving.

There is a particular hapiness in giving a man whom you like very much, good food that you have cooked yourself.