Kindness

If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.  ~Bob Hope


Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up.  ~Jesse Jackson


A good character is the best tombstone.  Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered.  Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.  ~Charles H. Spurgeon


It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.  ~Author Unknown


Today, give a stranger one of your smiles.  It might be the only sunshine he sees all day.  ~Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.


Treat everyone with politeness, even those who are rude to you - not because they are nice, but because you are.  ~Author Unknown


What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind.  ~Cleveland Amory


If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.  If you want to be happy, practice compassion.  ~Dalai Lama


I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.  ~Rudyard Kipling


Never miss an opportunity to make others happy, even if you have to leave them alone in order to do it.  ~Author Unknown


A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them.  ~Variation of a saying by Albert Einstein


Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.  ~Mark Twain


Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.  ~Seneca


There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity.  ~Confucius


Don't wait for people to be friendly, show them how.  ~Author Unknown


The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway.  ~Henry Boye


The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.  ~William Wordsworth


You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.  ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out.  ~Frank A. Clark


The kindest word in all the world is the unkind word, unsaid.  ~Author Unknown


We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.  ~Epictetus


One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.  ~Malayan Proverb


Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.  ~Marian Wright Edelman


Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.  ~Leo Buscaglia