Quotes About Kindness

That's me, man – I'm a lover not a fighter.

If you would help another man, you must do so in minute particulars.

Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?

To commiserate is sometimes more than to give, for money is external to a man's self, but he who bestows compassion communicates his own soul.

It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts.

Letter-writing on the part of a busy man or woman is the quintessence of generosity.

The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man.

Good men must be affectionate men.

Know this, that he that is a friend to himself, is a friend to all men.

When you see a man in distress, recognize him as a fellow man.

One cannot come closer to the gods than by bringing health to his Fellow Man.

The good man brings good to things out of the good stored up in his heart.

The man who is deserving the name is the one whose thoughts and exertions are for others rather than for himself.

I once knew a man out of courtesy help a lame dog over a stile, and he for requital bit his fingers.

For where there is love of man, there is also love of the art.

Dyan Favre, Brett's nephew, is also a gem. Not just a favorite person from the book - a favorite person, period. I actually wound up writing this about him. Simply a good, righteous man.

Who is the happiest man? He who is alive to the merit of others, and can rejoice in their enjoyment as if it were his own.

I would sit in at a jazz brunch [at sweet Basil] with Eddie Chamblee, who was a great tenor player. Really a kind man. The whole band was great.

I once felt bad because I had no shoes, and then I met a man who had no feet. He was wearing an ankle bracelet that kept falling off.

If a man does what is good, let him do it again; let him delight in it; happiness is the outcome of good.

Consider carefully before you say a hard word to a man, but never let a chance to say a good one go by. Praise judiciously bestowed is money invested.

It's better to break a man's leg than his heart.

Alas, the world has never known a sound social fabric, a fabric sound and clean to the core and kindly. For it has ever turned its back on Man.

It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.