Values & Character: Kindness Quotes

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"We have a long tradition in this state of caring for our neighbors - it is truly an Iowa value"

Thomas Vilsack, Politician

"I have no trouble being a good dude because that's what I am"

Busta Rhymes, Musician

"People seldom refuse help if one offers it in the right way"

A. C. Benson, Author

A. C. Benson

"And if strangers come to supper, they shall be served with more according as they have need"

Robert Grosseteste, Statesman

"Kindness is ever the begetter of kindness"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"A soul that is kind and intends justice discovers more than any sophist"

Sophocles, Author

Sophocles

"There are people who can do all fine and heroic things, but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up"

Mark Twain, Author

Mark Twain

"Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love"

Lao Tzu, Author

"From caring comes courage"

Lao Tzu, Author

"Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty"

Albert Einstein, Physicist

Albert Einstein

"All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow in thought and mind"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow"

Abraham Lincoln, President

Abraham Lincoln

"It is one of the beautiful compensations in this life that no one can sincerely try to help another without helping himself"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

George Bernard Shaw

"Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

"It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive"

Winston Churchill, Statesman

Winston Churchill

"A true man hates no one"

Napoleon Bonaparte, Leader

Napoleon Bonaparte

"For a tear is quickly dried, especially when shed for the misfortunes of others"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"If you do not understand a man, you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not"

Gilbert K. Chesterton, Writer

Gilbert K. Chesterton

"Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?"

William Blake, Poet

William Blake

"Unseasonable kindness gets no thanks"

Thomas Fuller, Clergyman

Thomas Fuller

"He that does good to another does good also to himself"

Seneca the Younger, Statesman

Seneca the Younger

"Some are reputed sick and some are not. It often happens that the sicker man is the nurse to the sounder"

Henry David Thoreau, Author

Henry David Thoreau

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"The good man is the friend of all living things"

Mahatma Gandhi, Leader

Mahatma Gandhi

"Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity's small change in general society"

Charles Dickens, Novelist

Charles Dickens

"When you run into someone who is disagreeable to others, you may be sure he is uncomfortable with himself; the amount of pain we inflict upon others is directly proportional to the amount we feel within us"

Sydney J. Harris, Journalist

Sydney J. Harris

"Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them"

Albert Camus, Philosopher

Albert Camus

"If you treat people right, they will treat you right... ninety percent of the time"

Franklin D. Roosevelt, President

Franklin D. Roosevelt

"A laugh, to be joyous, must flow from a joyous heart, for without kindness, there can be no true joy"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"For all right judgment of any man or things, it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

Thomas Carlyle

"People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

"It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

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