Quotes about Kindness

Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

It's the little things that smoothes people's roads the most.

Steal a chicken if you get a chance, Huck, because if you don't want it, someone else does and a good deed ain't never forgotten.

If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love.

I had to have company -- I was made for it, I think -- so I made friends with the animals. They are just charming, and they have the kindest disposition and the politest ways; they never look sour, they never let you feel that you are intruding, they smile at you and wag their tail, if they've got one, and they are always ready for a romp or an excursion or anything you want to propose.

Do right for your own sake, and be happy in knowing that your neighbor will certainly share in the benefits resulting.

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

And now and then his mind reverted to his treatment by those rude Christ's Hospital Boys, and he said, When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teaching out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved and the heart. I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

It is most difficult to understand the disposition of the Bible God, it is such a confusion of contradictions; of watery instabilities and iron firmness; of goody-goody abstract morals made out of words, and concreted hell-born ones made out of acts; of fleeting kindness repented of in permanent malignities.

A kindly courtesy does at least save one's feelings, even if it is not professing to stand for a welcome.