Quotes About Kindness

You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman.

More shouts of laughter greeted this, and off the girls ran, laughing and talking and forgetting Wanda and her hundred dresses. Forgetting until tomorrow and the next day and the next, when Peggy, seeing her coming to school, would remember and ask her about the hundred dresses. For now Peggy seemed to think a day was lost if she had not had some fun with Wanda, winning the approving laughter of the girls.

I am sure none of my boys and girls in Room 13 would purposely and deliberately hurt anyone's feelings because his name happened to be a long, unfamiliar one. I prefer to think that what was said was said in thoughtlessness. I know that all of you feel the way I do, that this is a very unfortunate thing to have happen. Unfortunate and sad, both. And I want you all to think about it.

had to make fun of Wanda. She worked her arithmetic problems absentmindedly. Eight times eight . . . let's see . . . nothing she could do about making fun of Wanda.

If she ever heard anybody picking on someone because they were funny looking or because they had strange names, she'd speak up. Even if it meant losing Peggy's friendship. She had no way of making things right with Wanda, but from now on she would never make anybody else so unhappy again.

I want to be good...I try to be good, I do try, and to like everybody. But there are some people - some people I can't like, however much I try. I hate them - there!

I don't see how you can find anything about this poor-people business to be glad for. Of course we can be glad for ourselves that we aren't poor like them; but whenever I'm thinking how glad I am for that, I get so sorry for them that I CAN'T be glad any longer. Of course we COULD be glad there were poor folks, because we could help them. But if we DON'T help them, where's the glad part of that coming in?

A compliment is a gift, not to be thrown away carelessly, unless you want to hurt the giver.

Be glad. Be good. Be brave.

When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?

Light a candle instead of cursing the darkness.

It is better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness.

The giving of love is an education in itself.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

Do whatever comes your way to do as well as you can. Think as little as possible about yourself. Think as much as possible about other people. Dwell on things that are interesting. Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

If you will forget about yourself, whether or not you are making a good impression on people, what they think of you, and you will think about them instead, you won't be shy.

If you will forget about yourself, whether or not you are making a good impression on people, what they think of you, and you will think about them instead, you won't be shy.

I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times—the most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give.

When you give joy to other people, you get more joy in return. You should give a good thought to happiness that you can give out.

It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.

If you care enough about certain things and work for them, I think you are bound to find them in the people you are with.

In this world, no one is all knowing, and therefore, all of us need both love and charity.

That even if we're constantly tempted to lower our guard -- out of love, or weariness, or sympathy, or kindness-- we women shouldn't do it. We can lose from one moment to the next everything that we have achieved.

I didn't intend to say something unkind. I meant only that you are good at making yourself liked. The difference between you and me, always, has been that people are afraid of me and not of you.