Quotes About Kindness

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

it's the little things that smoothes people's roads the most

The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling.

It was a dreadful thing to see. Humans beings can be awful cruel to one another.

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

There are more chickens than a man can know in this world, but an unprovoked kindness is the rarest of birds.

My experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an obligation.

Açl?ktan ölmekte olan bir köpeÄŸi al?p rahata kavuÅŸturursan?z, sizi ?s?rmaz. Ä°ÅŸte insanla köpek aras?ndaki temel fark budur.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.

For he did not seem to know any way to do a person a kindness but by killing him.

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

It would 'a' been a miserable business to have any unfriendliness on the raft; for what you want, above all things, on a raft, is for everybody to be satisfied, and feel right and kind towards the others.

I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals. They are just charming, and they have the kindest disposition and the politest ways; they never look sour, they never let you feel that you are intruding, they smile at you and wag their tail, if they've got one, and they are always ready for a romp or an excursion or anything you want to propose.

The reign of Edward VI was a singularly merciful one for those harsh times. Now that we are taking leave of him let us try to keep this in our minds, to his credit

No brute ever does a cruel thing—that is the monopoly of those with the Moral Sense.

Do right for your own sake, and be happy in knowing that your neighbor will certainly share in the benefits resulting.

And who has prayed for Satan? In eight hundred years, who has had the common decency to pray for the one sinner who needed it most?

La gentillesse est le langage qu'un sourd peut entendre et une aveugle peut voir

What can a person's heart be made of that can pity a Christian's child and yet can't pity a devil's child, that a thousand times more needs it!

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

In your country and mine we should have the privilege of making fun of this kind of morality, but it would be unkind to do it here.Many of these people have the reasoning faculty, but no one uses it in religious matters.

And now and then his mind reverted to his treatment by those rude Christ's Hospital Boys, and he said, When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teaching out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved and the heart. I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

Children have but little charity for each other's defects.

It is most difficult to understand the disposition of the Bible God, it is such a confusion of contradictions; of watery instabilities and iron firmness; of goody-goody abstract morals made out of words, and concreted hell-born ones made out of acts; of fleeting kindness repented of in permanent malignities.