Quotes About Kindness

When a man dies he clutches in his hands only that which he has given away during his lifetime.

Men like women who are fun to be around, who are kind, intelligent, honest and who don't play games.

Make all good men your well-wishers, and then, in the years' steady sifting, Some of them turn into friends. Friends are the sunshine of life.

And the angel said - "I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love".

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

Be kind, man - don't be mankind.

If content with himself and mankind, a man is never harsh or curt.

It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech.

A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned.

An infinitude of tenderness is the chief gift and inheritance of all truly great men.

Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made.

A man is truly ethical only when he obeys the compulsion to help all life which he is able to assist, and shrinks from injuring anything that lives.

Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy's misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.

The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation.

It is a shame for a man to be a millionaire in possessions if he is not also a millionaire in beneficence.

The good man makes others good.

If we do not help a man in trouble, it is as if we caused the trouble.

Let no man be sorry he has done good, because others have done evil.

Blessed are the happiness-makers! Blessed are they that take away attritions, that remove friction, that make the courses of life smooth, and the intercourse of men gentle!

I'd like to be remembered for being a good, kind, loving, gentle man who attempted to live wisely, and who cared a lot.

There are two things that men should never weary of, goodness and humility; we get none too much of them in this rough world among cold, proud people.

The only way to make a man worthy of love is by loving him.

I love my fellow creatures - I do all the good I can - yet everybody says I'm such a disagreeable man!

There is no sweeter pleasure than to surprise a man by giving him more than he hopes for.