Quotes About Kindness

I want to model generosity and touch poverty.

What is genius or courage without a heart?

A harsh word breaks the heart. A kind word can sooth the savage beast. A word never spoken can bury a burden or save a relationship.

Kindness has converted more sinners than either zeal, eloquence, or learning; and these three last have never converted any.

Christianity is about learning to love like Jesus loved and Jesus loved the poor and Jesus loved the broken.

The first step in learning to love others is the attempt to understand them.

Learning to cherish others is the best solution to our daily problems, and it is the source of all our future happiness and good fortune.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

If you want pancakes for breakfast, offer to help make them.

If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something.

The lesson I was learning involved the idea that I could feel compassion for people without acting on it.

It's embarrassing to tell you this, but it seems to come down mostly to just learning to be kinder.

And learn the luxury of doing good.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.

Life isn't worth living, unless it is lived for someone else.

One is only happy in proportion as he makes others feel happy and only useful as he contributes his influences for the finer callings in life.

The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being.

Do all the good you can and make as little fuss about it as possible.

You can be everything in life but the important thing is to be a good person.

Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances.

It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Although I can't stop all cruelty to living creatures on the planet, I can be kinder to every living creature in my life.