Quotes About Kindness

I hope that I would leave a legacy of joy. A legacy of real compassion. Because I think there is great joy in real compassion. I don't think that you can know joy apart from caring deeply about people – caring enough about people that you actually do something.

Date et dabitur vbs. (Luke 6.38.)

Can I see another's woe, And not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, And not seek for kind relief? WILLIAM BLAKE, SONGS OF INNOCENCE

Special mercy arouses more gratitude than universal mercy.

Every man therefore is bound to do all the good he can to others, especially for the church and commonwealth.

The funny thing is people won't let me pay for things. I'll be in a restaurant and the manager will say, 'Oh no, it's on the house.'

Respect is how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.

They encouraged me to always look for the good in people instead of assuming the worst and trying to find fault.

Respect is about how to treat everyone, not just those you want to impress.

Respect is how to treat people, not just those you want to impress.

To smile at the jest which plants a thorn in another's breast is to become a principal in the mischief.

Be good to the child and he will come to you tomorrow. - Unknown

Lincoln began to emerge from his funk by helping a coworker who looked up to him out of a funk of his own.

Choose to be kind over being right and you'll be right everytime.

Choose being kind over being right and you'll be right every time.

Your heart, the compassionate part of you, knows that it's impossible to feel better at the expense of someone else.

A little kindness from person to person is better than a vast love for all humankind.

There are few things in life that bring as much joy as the joy that comes from assisting another improve his or her life.

Paul wisely taught, 'Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.' [Rom. 12:21]

They have to square their well-earned reputation for kindness and hospitality with their equally well-earned reputation for violence and bigotry.

Amid fears of a European war, Mexico was old news. The bishops knew this, and so treated Greene with kindness and respect as someone who could tell their story to a distracted world.

By seeing it allowed to their officers, they will not be convinced that it is taken from them for their good; and by receiving nothing in its place, they will not believe that it is done in kindness. On the contrary, many of them look upon the change as a new instrument of tyranny.

Seeing himself in others, one who is in a state of higher consciousness feels compassion for all beings, and holds only positive thoughts about them.

There is no room for pride in any man. There is no room for unkindness. There is no room for wit at the expense of others. All men are born the same, and equal. As you saw to-day, so come the Captains and the Kings and the Tinkers and the Tailors.