Quotes About Kindness

Every time we choose courage, we make everyone around us a little better and the world a little braver. And our world could stand to be a little kinder and braver.

It's a delightful thing to receive a good word just at your time of need. Encourage someone today.

It is not noble to return evil for evil, at no time ought we to do an injury to our neighbors.

We ought so to behave to one another as to avoid making enemies of our friends, and at the same time to make friends of our enemies.

Kindness and courage can repair time's faults, And serving him breeds patience and courtesy In us, light sojourners and passing subjects.

If you do a good job for others, you heal yourself at the same time.

I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.

Turn soft and lovely any time you have a chance

He knows the most important language of all. Human compassion.

DOUBLE DEATH FOR THE KIND PHILANTHROPISTS

All of us want to do well. But if we do not do good, too, then doing well will never be enough.

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind, the second is to be kind, and the third is to be kind.

Perhaps only when we've made our peace with our own selves can we really be the kind of friends who listen, advise, but don't judge, or not too harshly.

It was a kind of circular thing: to be the kind of person who would have taken Faith in, he had to be the kind of person who would take her back.

Occasionally Rebecca wished her son would not be so very kind to her, as though she was the losing pitcher on a Little League team.

They healed in time, and they forgot the pain, but the nice soft flap, that of course was intended to protect the delicate part of their ears from dust and injury, was gone forever. Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut the end off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?

he thought people did not value their animals half enough, nor make friends of them as they ought to do

there is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast it is all a sham—all a sham, James, and it won't stand when things come to be turned inside out.

we have no right to distress any of God's creatures without a very good reason; we call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

Thank God! We are in time, said the young man, and thank you too my friend and your good horse; you have saved me more than money can ever pay for; take this extra half-crown.

It was wonderful what a change had come over Joe. John laughed, and said he had grown an inch taller in that week, and I believe he had. He was just as kind and gentle as before, but there was more purpose and determination in all that he did—as if he had jumped at once from a boy into a man.

We have no right to distress any of God's creatures without a very good reason.

Why don't they cut their own children's ears into points to make them look sharp? Why don't they cut the end off their noses to make them look plucky? One would be just as sensible as the other. What right have they to torment and disfigure God's creatures?

Poor things! I know what sort of treatment they have had. If they are timid, it makes them start or shy; if they are high-mettled, it makes them vicious or dangerous; their tempers are mostly made when they are young. Bless you! they are like children, train 'em up in the way they should go, as the good book says, and when they are old they will not depart from it, if they have a chance, that is.