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| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. ~ Rudyard Kipling |
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| Don’t be yourself – be someone a little nicer. ~ Mignon McLaughlin, |
| There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear. ~ Frank Tyger |
| 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 |
| A kind word is like a Spring day. ~ Russian Proverb |
| Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. ~ Samuel Johnson |
| 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 |
| When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ~ Abraham Joshua Heschel |
| 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. ~ Mark Twain |
Life is mostly froth and bubble,
Two things stand like stone,
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in your own.
~ Adam Lindsay Gordon |
| How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these. ~ George Washington Carver |
| You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. ~ John Wooden |
| Kindness, like a boomerang, always returns. ~ Author Unknown |
| If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be. ~ Antonio Porchia, |
| 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 |