Kindness
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- Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others.
- Find the good and praise it.
- Fine manners are the mantle of fair minds.
- Gentleness is indeed the best test of gentlemanliness.
- Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.
- Give, even if you only have a little.
- Give goodness to the day and before you know it, the day will be giving goodness to you.
- Give the best of you everywhere you go. Give a smile, give thanks, give kindness, give love, and give without expectation of return.
- Give the respect you want to receive; embody the grace you hope to encounter; and help others with no expectations whatsoever.
- Give what you have. To some one it may be better than you dare to think.
- Good deeds ring clear through heaven like a bell.
- Good nature is one of the richest fruits of true Christianity.
- Good things, once done, will never disappear, even if you forget about them.
- Good words do more than hard speeches, as the sunbeams, without any noise, will make the traveler cast off his cloak, which all the blustering winds could not do, but only make him bind it closer to him.
- Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.
- Hail! ye small sweet courtesies of life, for smooth do ye make the road of it, like grace and beauty which beget inclinations to love at first sight: 'tis ye who open the door and let the stranger in.
- He is good that does good to others.
- He that does good to another does good also to himself, not only in the consequence, but in the very act; for the consciousness of well-doing is in itself ample reward.
- He that showeth mercy when it may be best spared, will receive mercy when it shall be most needed.
- He that will lose his friend for a jest deserves to die a beggar by the bargain. Yet some think their conceits, like mustard, not good except they bite.
- He who acknowledges a kindness has it still, and he who has a grateful sense of it has requited it.
- He who receives a good turn, should never forget it: he who does one, should never remember it.
- He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.
- Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed.
- How easy is it for one benevolent being to diffuse pleasure around him, and how truly is a kind heart a fountain of gladness, making everything in its vicinity to freshen into smiles.
- How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
- How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
- How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.
- How we treat other people changes them, but even more so, how we treat other people changes us.
- I am a man; I count nothing human foreign to me.
- I defeat my enemies when I make them my friends.
- I don’t like that man. I must get to know him better.
- I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
- I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
- I have seen men lose important positions, or their reputations—which are more important than any position—by little careless discourtesies to men whom they did not think it was worth while to be kind to.
- I prefer that you make mistakes in kindness rather than that you work miracles in unkindness.
- I would give nothing for that man's religion, whose very dog and cat are not the better for it.
- If a good face is a letter of recommendation, a good heart is a letter of credit.
- If I can put one touch of a rosy sunset into the life of any man or woman, I shall feel that I have worked with God.
- If life becomes hard, soften it with random acts of kindness.Michael Levy, Baron LevyCommonly attributed