Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mignon McLaughlin

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

John Wilmot

To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.

John Wooden

Every day, try to help someone who can't reciprocate your kindness.

John Ruskin

Such help as we can give to each other in this world is a debt to each other; and the man who perceives a superiority or a capacity in a subordinate, and neither confesses nor assists it, is not merely the withholder of kindness, but the committer of injury.

Maya Angelou

My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness.

Maxim Gorky

Be good, be kind, be humane, and charitable; love your fellows; console the afflicted; pardon those who have done you wrong.

Max Beerbohm

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

Marilynne Robinson

That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly unclothed when we lack the complacencies of ordinary life. In destitution, even of feeling or purpose, a human being is more hauntingly human and vulnerable to kindnesses because there is the sense that things should be otherwise, and then the thought of what is wanting and what alleviation would be, and how the soul could be put at ease, restored. At home. But the soul finds its own home if it ever has a home at all.

Maria Montessori

Let us treat them [children], therefore, with all the kindness which we would wish to help to develop in them.

Matsuo Basho

I hope to have gathered To repay your kindness The willow leaves Scattered in the garden.

Plautus

To a well deserving person God will show favor. To an ill deserving person He will simply be just.

Plautus

What you lend is lost; when you ask for it back, you may find a friend made an enemy by your kindness. If you begin to press him further, you have the choice of two things--either to lose your loan or lose your friend.

Plautus

It is not without a purpose when a rich man greets a poor one with kindness.

Plato

It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine.

Plato

Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost.

Mary Engelbreit

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside.

Martin Seligman

Doing a kindness produces the single most reliable momentary increase in well-being of any exercise we have tested.

Martin Scorsese

Eradicating a religion of kindness is, I think, a terrible thing for the Chinese to attempt.

Philip Sidney

A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.

Philip James Bailey

Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.

Max Lucado

Be kind to yourself. God thinks you're worth his kindness. And he's a good judge of character.

Max Lucado

I choose kindness... I will be kind to the poor, for they are alone. Kind to the rich, for they are afraid. And kind to the unkind, for such is how God has treated me

Max Lucado

You present a challenge to Satan's plan. You carry something of God within you, something noble and holy, something the world needs - wisdom, kindness, mercy, skill. If Satan can neutralize you, he can mute your influence.

Max Lucado

Our Savior kneels down and gazes upon the darkest acts of our lives. But rather than recoil in horror, he reaches out in kindness and says, "I can clean that if you want." And from the basin of his grace, he scoops a palm full of mercy and washes away our sin.

Max Lucado

Love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control. To these I commit my day. If I succeed, I will give thanks. If I fail, I will seek his grace. And then, when this day is done, I will place my head on my pillow and rest.

Max Irons

Kindness and a generous spirit go a long way. And a sense of humor. It's like medicine - very healing.

Matthew Scully

Animals are more than ever a test of our character, of mankind's capacity for empathy and for decent, honorable conduct and faithful stewardship. We are called to treat them with kindness, not because they have rights or power or some claim to equality, but in a sense because they don't; because they all stand unequal and powerless before us.

Matthew Henry

We best oppose error by promoting a solid knowledge of the word of truth, and the greatest kindness we can do to children, is to make them early to know the Bible.

Mayim Bialik

I don't want to say everything happens for a reason but every day is lined up right next to the other one for a reason. The best you can do is do each day well with kindness and as a good person.

Maya Angelou

Every Day you should reach out and touch someone

Maya Angelou

Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone.

Maya Angelou

My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness.

Marianne Williamson

Every act of kindness on your part is a boost to your own immune system.