Quotes About Kindness

Galatians 5:23 Gentleness, self-control.

I will bless you . . . and you shall be a blessing. – Genesis 12:2

Proverbs 15:1 A gentle answer turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath.

Inasmuch as you did it to one of the least of these My brethren, you did it to Me. – Matthew 25:40

This is My commandment, that you love one another, as I have loved you. – John 15:12

Small, daily steps can matter in surprising ways when we go beyond simply thinking about good acts and actually do them. For example, complimenting at least one person a day about something that makes them special can have an unexpected positive impact.

maybe now and then if it's absolutely necessary to cushion someone from a world gone too harsh and bitter.

He means well. He just doesn't know what he means well.

People matter more than things.

A bottle of good wine, like a good act, shines ever in the retrospect

A friend is a gift you give yourself.

I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the spirit in which it is offered.

There is an idea abroad among moral people that they should make their neighbors good. One person I have to make good: Myself. But my duty to my neighbor is much more nearly expressed by saying that I have to make him happy if I may.

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands, and then work outward from there.

You don't have to choose between being scientific and being compassionate.

People are always doing things for my sake and strangely enough, I'm the one who suffers for it.

Kindness—such a simple thing—but in such short supply, he reflected, that one would have thought it had to be imported to London from somewhere as far away as the Saharan desert,

Small things with great love. . . . It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into the doing. And it is not how much we give, but how much love we put into the giving. To God there is nothing small.

Can I persuade you that if you let a driver into your lane, or thank a sales clerk, or smile at someone in a hallway, you can change his or her life? Of course not—but if you don't go through the day with the assumption that small moments and small gestures can touch people's lives, what is the alternative belief?

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." —Aesop, "The Lion and the Mouse

Small things with great love. . . . It is not how much we do, but how much love we put into the doing. And it is not how much we give, but how much love we put into the giving. To God there is nothing small." —Mother Teresa

consider how the world might be different if more of us conducted our social, business, and romantic lives with the belief that small steps matter, that even the shortest contact with another person is inherently important.

Kaizen offers the possibility that through small acts of kindness, and even small moments of compassion and curiosity, we can change ourselves—and, eventually, humanity.

Whenever I feel that people aren't smiling at me, I simply begin smiling and saying hello.