Quotes about Kindness

The greatest inhumanity that can be ascribed to men is having an opportunity for doing good to others and doing nothing. The serious sin is not always one of commission, but omission.

Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.

The fact is that not only do people get more wise and more conservative as they get older, they get more kind and more generous, too.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother's advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.

The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

What you wish to others, God wishes to you.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another.

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

I want to be a giving woman and just a nice person in general.

We have an obligation to help people that cannot help themselves. The mentally retarded, the physically retarded, et cetera.