Kindness
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- Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them at least don’t hurt them.
- Pay with compliments and you will always be wealthy.
- People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
- People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; never throw out anyone.
- People often ask me what is the most effective technique for transforming their life. It is a little embarrassing that after years and years of research and experimentation, I have to say that the best answer is - just be a little kinder.
- Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
- Politeness and civility are the best capital ever invested in business.
- Politeness has been well defined as benevolence in small things.
- Politeness is good nature regulated by good sense.
- Power itself hath not one-half the might of gentleness.
- Practice kindness all day to everybody and you will realize you’re already in heaven now.
- Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something.
- Remember that people are OK; it's just their behavior that is sometimes a problem.
- Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.Scott AdamsSourced
- See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were.
- See the light in others, and treat them as if that is all you see.
- Seek opportunities to show you care. The smallest gestures often make the biggest difference.
- Seek to mingle gentleness in all your rebukes; bear with the infirmities of others; make allowance for constitutional frailties; never say harsh things, if kind things will do as well.J. R. MacDuffSourced
- Seek to share joy with others, or to make somebody else happy, and you will find your own soul radiant with the joy you wished for another.
- Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?J. M. BarrieSourced
- Silence the angry man with love. Silence the ill-natured man with kindness. Silence the miser with generosity. Silence the liar with truth.
- Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practised in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.
- Something powerful happens when you get your mind off yourself and you go out and be good to somebody else.
- Sometimes it's better to be kind than to be right. We do not need an intelligent mind that speaks, but a patient heart that listens. You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger
- Sometimes when we are generous in small, barely detectable ways it can change someone else's life forever.
- Sow good services; sweet remembrances will grow from them.
- Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.
- Straightforwardness without civility is like a surgeon's knife, effective but unpleasant. Candor with courtesy is helpful and admirable.Yukteswar GiriSourced
- Strengthen me by sympathizing with my strength not my weakness.Amos Bronson AlcottSourced
- Strive to be first: first to nod, first to smile, first to compliment, and first to forgive.
- Superb relationships are at the heart of success. Kindness is the core of superb relationships.
- Sympathy is two hearts tugging at one load.
- Talk of those things that will make people the better for listening to you.
- That kind of divine discontent comes from observing customers and noticing that things can always be better.Jeff BezosSourced
- The art of being kind is all the world needs.Ella Wheeler WilcoxCommonly attributed
- The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
- The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up.
- The biggest lesson I’ve learned is that hurt people hurt people, and kindness is just as contagious. So if you can focus your efforts on engineering kindness, it will prevail.
- The bottom line is this: if you want to engage your employees at a whole new level, if you want to become a person of greater influence, and if you want to discover a new kind of power — listen.
- The cheapest of all things is kindness, its exercise requiring the least possible trouble and self-sacrifice.