Quotes About Kindness

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

My hope for my daughter is that she has the courage to at least try to do it all, to be kind to herself when it all doesn't come together perfectly, and to follow her dreams.

There's that part of you as a performer that when you're told you're gonna be a fan favorite, you think 'Oh man, I better smile more and be kinder, let the people in more' I kinda had to fight all those instincts and just be like 'No, no no, you're gonna walk at the same pace, do everything with the same cadence, do everything the same.'

One forgives the critic - perhaps - but never the good-natured friend.

She was a patron saint of the peripheral.

As a child I learned what it meant to be persecuted. But, even then, at the worst of times, I knew there was good in the world.

I like to think I'm a nice guy and have a good heart, and I'm a loyal person.

Never judge a person if you don't know him.

It is impossible to bless and judge at the same time. So hold constantly as a deep, hallowed, intoned thought the desire to bless, for truly then shall you become a peacemaker, and one day you shall behold, everywhere, the very face of God. And, of course, above all, do not forget to bless the utterly beautiful person you are.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of one's self to others.

The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.

The best thing you can possibly do for a friend is to be his friend.

She looked around. "Oh, I've just got to hug somebody! You!" And she hugged Puck, the little ghost horse. "And you." She hugged Pook, and Peek, and even the nose of the moat monster. "But not you," she decided, encountering the zombie.

Is it foolish to care for non-existent folk? Then, leave me to my foolishness.

It isn't enough to exasperate others. You have to remember to gladden yourself!

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

I met two or three men who were very kind to me. There was a magistrate who couldn't stand priests, and a priest who didn't have a good word to say for magistrates; and there was a landlord who let furnished rooms by the hour and spoke highly of both priests and magistrates, because both were his best clients.

Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.

A man ought not to return evil for evil, as many think, since at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbour.*

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

However often you may have done them a favour, if you once refuse they forget everything except your refusal.

The malicious humor of men, though perverse and refractory, is not so savage and invincible but it may be wrought upon by kindness, and altered by repeated obligations.

Some, too, have made banishment and loss of property a means of leisure and philosophic study, as did Diogenes and Crates. And Zeno, on learning that the ship which bore his venture had been wrecked, exclaimed, "A real kindness, O Fortune, that thou, too, dost join in driving us to the philosopher's cloak!

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.