Quotes About Kindness

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for someone else. —BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

It's a simple thing to offer encouragement, but it can have a tremendous effect on someone's life.

The key to developing charisma: Be more concerned about making others feel good about themselves than you are in making them feel good about you.

Cuando su mentalidad es dar más de lo que toma, lo fuerza a pensar más en los demás que en usted mismo.

Ambassador and poet Henry Van Dyke observed, "There is a loftier ambition than merely to stand high in the world. It is to stoop down and lift mankind a little higher.

Usted no habrá vivido el día de hoy hasta que haya hecho algo por alguien que nunca podrá pagarle. –JOHN BUNYAN

Decide that People Are Worth the Effort:

Pero usted impacta aun en sus interacciones diarias con las personas. Puede hacer que los pocos momentos en los que interactúa con un dependiente de una tienda o un cajero en un banco sean una experiencia miserable, o puede hacer que sonrían y alegrar su día. La elección es suya.

To be successful is to be helpful, caring, and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better. The best thing you have to give is yourself." If

That grumpy woman didn't deserve to be treated kindly. But when she was treated not as she was, but as I wanted her to be and believed she could become, her perspective suddenly changed.

ENCOURAGE SOMEONE TODAY AND YOU MIGHT GET TO WATCH THEM BLOOM TOMORROW.

Quando entendemos o ponto de vista do próximo — entendemos o que ele está tentando fazer nove entre dez vezes ele está tentando fazer o que é certo.

All people feel better and do better when you give them attention, affirmation, and appreciation.

In the morning he asked himself, "What good shall I do today?" In the evening he asked, "What good have I done today?

Charles Schwab: Be friends with everybody. When you have friends you will know there is somebody who will stand by you. You know the old saying, that if you have a single enemy you will find him everywhere. It doesn't pay to make enemies. Lead the life that will make you kind and friendly to everyone about you, and you will be surprised what a happy life you will live.

Mother Teresa said, "Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

Give to others? Why? I have needs too

What people remember most is how you make them feel.

Real leaders have something to give, and they give it freely. Anthony DeMello saw a starving child shivering in the cold. Angrily he lifted his eyes to heaven and said, "God, how could you allow such suffering? Why don't you do something?" There was a long silence and then DeMello was startled when he heard the voice of God answer him, "I certainly have done something—I made you.

If you desire to mine the gold of good intentions in others, then forgiveness is essential. And it's rarely a one-time thing. Civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. was right when he said, "Forgiveness is not an occasional act; it is a permanent attitude.

Las palabras amables pueden ser cortas y fáciles de expresar, pero sus ecos son infinitos" —Madre Teresa

The unfortunate truth is that many of us, instead of offering total forgiveness, pray something like this Irish Prayer: May those who love us, love us; And those who don't love us May God turn their hearts; And if He doesn't turn their hearts, May He turn their ankles, So we'll know them by their limping. People

Cuando uno hace que las personas se sientan seguras, importantes y apreciadas, no necesitan menospreciar a los demás para aparentar que ellas son mejores».

Sometimes we get to see the miracle. Others times we get to be the miracle.