Quotes About Kindness

One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We cannot be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.

The charitable say in effect, 'I seem to have more than I need and you seem to have less than you need. I would like to share my excess with you.' Fine, if my excess is tangible, money or goods, and fine if not, for I learned that to be charitable with gestures and words can bring enormous joy and repair injured feelings.

I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love.

If I could give you one thought, it would be to lift someone up. Lift a stranger up--lift her up. I would ask you, mother and father, brother and sister, lovers, mother and daughter, father and son, lift someone. The very idea of lifting someone up will lift you, as well.

The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

That day, I learned that I could be a giver simply by bringing a smile to another person. The ensuing years have taught me that a kind word or a vote of support can be a charitable gift. I can move over and make another place for another to sit. I can turn my music up if it pleases, or down if it is annoying. I may never be known as a philanthropist, but I certainly want to be known as charitable.

I may never be known as a philanthropist, but I certainly am a lover of mankind, and I will give freely of my resources.

Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity.

People may not remember what you said, but they will remember how you made them feel

People will forget what you said. People will forget what you did. But people will never forget how you made them feel. ~ From intro to movie: Spinning Into Butter

I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere. For a change, start by speaking to people rather than walking by them like they're stones that don't matter. As long as you're breathing, it's never too late to do some good.

Love heals. Heals and liberates.

When you get, give.

If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love.

You are very kind and very intelligent and those elements are not always found together. Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt, Dr. Mary McLeod Bethune, and my mother - yes, you belong in that category. Here, give me a kiss.

I went further than forgiving the clerk, I accepted her as a fellow victim of the same puppeteer.

I ordered myself to be kind.

Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud.

Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path of another who may be walking in darkness.

Long after people forget what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel. —Tim Sanders

Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.