Quotes about Kindness

Remember what Lincoln said: 'A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.

We nourish the bodies of our children and friends and employees, but how seldom do we nourish their self-esteem? We provide them with roast beef and potatoes to build energy, but we neglect to give them kind words of appreciation that would sing in their memories for years like the music of the morning stars.

Say 'Hello' in tones that bespeak how pleased you are to have the person call.

People are moved when their interactions with you always leave them a little better.

We ride roughshod over the feelings of others, getting our own way, finding fault, issuing threats, criticising a child or an employee in front of others, without even considering the hurt to the other person's pride. Whereas a few minutes' thought, a considerate word or two, a genuine understanding of the other person's attitude, would go so far toward alleviating the sting!

It enriches those who receive, without impoverishing those who give. It happens in a flash and the memory of it sometimes lasts forever.

I had the blues because I had no shoes, Until upon the street, I met a man who had no feet.

Three-fourths of the people you will ever meet are hungering and thirsting for sympathy. Give it to them, and they will love you.

Become genuinely interested in other people.

Let me repeat that. You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.

I will speak ill of no man," he said, " … and speak all the good I know of everybody.