Quotes about Kindness

Love begins when duty finishes. It is a giving of the cloak when the coat is taken. It is walking the extra mile.

A person is merciful when he feels the sorrow and misery of another as if it were his own.

His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name.

Some faces are never so gay as when regaling a scandal, which the generous heart would cover and the devout heart pray over.

One who cares for another assumes the weight of the other's condition on his own heart and bears it in love.

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.