Quotes about Kindness
When you wish someone joy, you wish them peace, love, prosperity, happiness... all the good things.
— Maya Angelou
At the end of the day people won't remember what you said or did, they will remember how you made them feel.
— Maya Angelou
As soon as healing takes place, go out and heal somebody else.
— Maya Angelou
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.
— Maya Angelou
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.
— Maya Angelou
I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.
— Maya Angelou
If you only have one smile in you, give it to the people you love.
— Maya Angelou
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.
— Maya Angelou
The honorary duty of a human being is to love.
— Maya Angelou
People may not remember what you said, but they will remember how you made them feel
— Maya Angelou
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
— Maya Angelou
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.
— Maya Angelou