Quotes About Kindness

If you can't say something nice about a person, go ahead

I think everyone should treat one another in a Christian manner. I will not, however, be responsible for the consequences.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are.

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts—not to hurt others.

People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors.

Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty.

When a man turns a blessing from his door, it falls to them as take it in.

but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings.

When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritorious, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune.

It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient.

If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should like to share those good things; but I should like better to share in your trouble and your labour.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

That plain, middle-aged face, with a grave penetrating kindness in it, seeming to tell of a human being who had reached a firm, safe strand, but was looking with helpful pity towards the strugglers still tossed by the waves, had an effect on Maggie at this moment which was afterwards remembered by her as if it had been a promise.

He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric.

When we are treated well, we naturally begin to think that we are not altogether unmeritous, and that it is only just we should treat ourselves well, and not mar our own good fortune.

he was gradually discovering the delight there is in frank kindness and companionship between a man and a woman who have no passion to hide or confess.

If we had lost our own chief good, other people's good would remain, and that is worth trying for.

On the contrary, having the amiable vanity which knits us to those who are fond of us, and disinclines us to those who are indifferent, and also a good grateful nature, the mere idea that a woman had a kindness towards him spun little threads of tenderness from out his heart towards hers.

Trouble is so hard to bear, is it not?—How can we live and think that any one has trouble—piercing trouble—and we could help them, and never try?

Not at all, said Dorothea, with the most open kindness. I like you very much. Will was not quite contented, thinking that he would apparently have been of more importance if he had been disliked. He said nothing, but looked dull, not to say sulky.

There are few prophets in the world; few sublimely beautiful women; few heroes. I can't afford to give all my love and reverence to such rarities: I want a great deal of those feelings for my every-day fellow-men, especially for the few in the foreground of the great multitude, whose faces I know, whose hands I touch, for whom I have to make way with kindly courtesy.

I believe that people are almost always better than their neighbors think they are," said Dorothea.