Quotes about Kindness
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
- Henry David Thoreau
The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.
- Henry David Thoreau
We are sometimes made aware of a kindness long passed, and realize that there have been times when our friends' thoughts of us were of so pure and lofty a character that they passed over us like the winds of heaven unnoticed when they treated us not as what we were, but as what we aspired to be. -- from A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers
- Henry David Thoreau
The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Selfishness at the expense of others' happiness is demonism.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Every charitable act is a stepping stone toward heaven.
- Henry Ward Beecher
God appoints our graces to be nurses to other men's weaknesses.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Someone's sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
- Les Brown
What could you do to make a difference in the world?
- Les Brown