Quotes About Kindness

Men naturally warm and heady are transported with the greatest flush of good-nature.

A good man is kinder to his enemy than bad men are to their friends.

Probably the most neglected friend you have is you. And yet every man, before he can be a true friend to the world, must first become a friend to himself.

...maybe it was better to break a man's leg than to break his heart.

A warm blundering man does more for the world than a frigid wise man.

Man is born for deeds of kindness.

It is man's peculiar duty to love even those who wrong him.

Men in no way approach so nearly to the gods as in doing good to men. [Lat., Homines ad deos nulla re propius accedunt, quam salutem hominibus dando.]

Men resemble the gods in nothing so much as in doing good to their fellow creatures.

The ultimate form of love for God and men is forgiveness.

There is nothing that puts a man more in your debt than that he owes you nothing.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion

To leave the world a little better than you found it. That's the best a man can ever do.

I trust no rich man who is officiously kind to a poor man.

I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.

The graceful tear that streams for others' Man is the weeping animal born to govern all the rest.

The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity; yet there is still a greater, which is the good man who comes to relieve it.

Sometimes kindness can be delivered in a clumsy way. But it's far more sincere in its clumsiness than those distinguished men you read about in books. Your father was very clumsy.

W'en you see a man in woe, Walk right up and say 'hullo'; Say "hullo" and "how d'ye do. How's the world a-usin' you?

All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

As charity covers a multitude of sins before God, so does politeness before men.

Infinite is the help man can yield to man.

I hope that this man can be won over by your bearing charitably with him, advising him prudently, and praying for him. This is what I do for your family in general and for you in particular.

Be kind to an old man.