Quotable Quotes (13 page)

 

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

—
J
OSEPH
J
OUBERT

 

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.

—
S
.
H
.
S
IMMONS

 

Write injuries in sand, kindnesses in marble.

—
F
RENCH PROVERB

 

Ask any decent person what he thinks matters most in human conduct: five to one his answer will be “kindness.”

—
K
ENNETH
C
LARK

 

Two important things are to have a genuine interest in people and to be kind to them. Kindness, I've discovered, is everything in life.

—
I
SAAC
B
ASHEVIS
S
INGER

 

Always try to be a little kinder than is necessary.

—
J
AMES
M
.
B
ARRIE

 

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

—
T
HEODORE
I
SAAC
R
UBIN,
MD

One to One

 

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

—
A
BRAHAM
J
OSHUA
H
ESCHEL

 

Praise can give criticism a lead around the first turn and still win the race.

—
B
ERN
W
ILLIAMS

in
National Enquirer

 

How beautiful a day can be when kindness touches it.

—
G
EORGE
E
LLISTON

 

One kind word can warm three winter months.

—
J
APANESE PROVERB

 

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

—
M
OTHER
T
ERESA OF
C
ALCUTTA

 

Tenderness is passion in repose.

—
J
OSEPH
J
OUBERT

 

Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read.

—
M
ARK
T
WAIN

 

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

—
E
RIC
H
OFFER

The Passionate State of Mind

 

A pat on the back, though only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, is miles ahead in results.

—
B
ENNETT
C
ERF

 

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

—
W
ILLIAM
A
RTHUR
W
ARD

“Reward Yourself”

 

When we put ourselves in the other person's place, we're less likely to want to put him in his place.

—
Farmer's Digest

 

He best can pity who has felt the woe.

—
J
OHN
G
AY

 

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

—
H
ENRY
D
AVID
T
HOREAU

 

You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.

—
H
ARPER
L
EE

To Kill a Mockingbird

 

Feelings are everywhere—be gentle.

—
J
.
M
ASAI

 

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it forgoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

—
E
.
H
.
C
HAPIN

 

One of the most lasting pleasures you can experience is the feeling that comes over you when you genuinely forgive an enemy—whether he knows it or not.

—
O
.
A
.
B
ATTISTA

in
Quote Magazine

 

A forgiveness ought to be like a canceled note, torn in two and burned up, so that it can never be shown against the man.

—
H
ENRY
W
ARD
B
EECHER

 

Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved.

—
C
.
S
.
L
EWIS

 

He who cannot forgive others destroys the bridge over which he himself must pass.

—
G
EORGE
H
ERBERT

 

When a deep injury is done us, we never recover until we forgive.

—
A
LAN
P
ATON

 

Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.

—
B
ETTY
S
MITH

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

 

One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything every night before you go to bed.

—
A
NN
L
ANDERS

 

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting.

—
W
ILLIAM
A
RTHUR
W
ARD

 

Forgive your enemies—if you can't get back at them any other way.

—
F
RANKLIN
P
.
J
ONES

 

G
OODNESS IS THE ONLY INVESTMENT 
. . .

 

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

—
H
ENRY
D
AVID
T
HOREAU

 

On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.

—
G
EORGE
O
RWELL

 

All that is worth cherishing in this world begins in the heart, not the head.

—
Quoted by S
UZANNE
C
HAZIN
in
The New York Times

 

Ten thousand bad traits cannot make a single good one any the less good.

—
R
OBERT
L
OUIS
S
TEVENSON

 

The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between political parties either—but right through every human heart.

—
A
LEKSANDR
I
.
S
OLZHENITSYN

The Gulag Archipelago

 

Some people strengthen the society just by being the kind of people they are.

—
J
OHN
W
.
G
ARDNER

 

Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.

—
J
AMES
M
ATTHEW
B
ARRIE

 

It's not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts.

—
A
DDISON
W
ALKER

 

Sincerity resembles a spice. Too much repels you and too little leaves you wanting.

—
B
ILL
C
OPELAND

 

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

—
B
OB
H
OPE

 

The work of an unknown good man is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground greener.

—
T
HOMAS
C
ARLYLE

 

Generosity always wins favor, particularly when accompanied by modesty.

—
J
OHANN
W
OLFGANG VON
G
OETHE

 

People want to know how much you care before they care how much you know.

—
J
AMES
F
.
H
IND

in
The Wall Street Journal

 

Goodwill is earned by many acts; it can be lost by one.

—
D
UNCAN
S
TUART

 

G
RATITUDE IS A SOMETIME THING 
. . .

 

Gratitude is a sometime thing in this world. Just because you've been feeding them all winter, don't expect the birds to take it easy on your grass seed
.

—
B
ILL
V
AUGHAN

in Kansas City
Star

 

Gratitude is the memory of the heart.

—
J
.
B
.
M
ASSIEU

 

Swift gratitude is the sweetest.

—
G
REEK PROVERB

 

The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.

—
E
RIC
H
OFFER

Reflections On The Human Condition

 

Silent gratitude isn't very much use to anyone.

—
G
.
B
.
S
TERN

Robert Louis Stevenson

 

Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.

—
W
ILLIAM
A
RTHUR
W
ARD

 

One must be poor to know the luxury of giving.

—
G
EORGE
E
LIOT

 

To know the value of generosity, it is necessary to have suffered from the cold indifference of others.

—
E
UGENE
C
LOUTIER

 

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

—
W
ILLIAM
J
.
B
ENNETT

The Moral Compass

 

Appreciation is like an insurance policy. It has to be renewed every now and then.

—
D
AVE
M
C
I
NTYRE

 

P
ERSEVERANCE IS NOT A LONG RACE 
. . .

 

Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

—
W
ALTER
E
LLIOTT

The Spiritual Life

 

Fall seven times, stand up eight.

—
J
APANESE PROVERB

 

Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.

—
L
OUIS
P
ASTEUR

 

Great works are performed, not by strength, but by perseverance.

—
S
AMUEL
J
OHNSON

 

Vitality shows not only in the ability to persist but in the ability to start over.

—
F
.
S
COTT
F
ITZGERALD

 

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

—
C
HARLES
H
ADDON
S
PURGEON

 

In the confrontation between the stream and the rock, the stream always wins—not through strength but by perseverance.

—
H
.
J
ACKSON
B
ROWN

A Father's Book of Wisdom

 

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight—it's the size of the fight in the dog.

—
D
WIGHT
D
.
E
ISENHOWER

 

A professional is someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it.

—
A
LISTAIR
C
OOKE

 

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

—
C
HINESE PROVERB

 

If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.

—
F
RANK
A
.
C
LARK

 

Perseverance is the hard work you do after you get tired of doing the hard work you already did.

—
N
EWT
G
INGRICH

 

Go the extra mile. It's never crowded.

—
Executive Speechwriter Newsletter

 

Lord, give me the determination and tenacity of a weed.

—
M
RS.
L
EON
R
.
W
ALTERS