Kindness Quotes, Proverbs and Sayings - Page 21
Behold, I do not give lectures or a little charity, When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman
A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.
Dave Barry
Seek not good from without: seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it.
Epictetus
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Epictetus
The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
Bertrand Russell
Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually. Peace, for example, starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us.
When our community is in a state of peace, it can share that peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace. And there are ways in which we can consciously work to develop feelings of love and kindness. For some of us, the most effective way to do so is through religious practice. For others it may be non-religious practices. What is important is that we each make a sincere effort to take our responsibility for each other and for the natural environment we live in seriously.
Tenzin Gyatso (The 14th Dalai Lama)
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart.
Anne Frank
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away.
Sir Arthur Helps
Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions.
Robert Brault
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens.
Baha’u'llah
In this world, there is nothing softer or thinner than water. But to compel the hard and unyielding, it has no equal. That the weak overcomes the strong, that the hard gives way to the gentle — this everyone knows. Yet no one asks accordingly.
Lao Tzu
Their cause I plead–plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind.
David Garrick
During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: “What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?” Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. “Absolutely,” the professor said. “In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello.” I’ve never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy.
Joann C. Jones
A little more than kin, and less than kind!
William Shakespeare
This is a way to kill a wife with kindness.
William Shakespeare
Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.
William Shakespeare
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl.
H.L. Mencken
Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand.
Robert Brault
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.
Thomas Fuller
The natural dignity of our work, its unembarrassed kindness, its insight into life, its hold on science – for these privileges, and for all that they bring with them, up and up, high over the top of the tree, the very heavens open, preaching thankfulness.
Stephen Paget
To accept a favor is to forfeit liberty.
Laber
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