Quotes About Kindness II

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

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. ~Robert Brault


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


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


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


The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. ~Charles Kuralt


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


Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. ~William Feather


Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. ~Dan Bennett


Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. ~Samuel Johnson


The more sympathy you give, the less you need. ~Malcolm S. Forbes


It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~ Baha'u'llah


Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. ~H. Jackson Brown


Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. ~Og Mandino


If every man's internal care
Were written on his brow,
How many would our pity share
Who raise our envy now?
~Peitro Metastasio


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


If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. ~H.L. Mencken


Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. ~James Matthew Barrie


In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. ~Karl Reiland


How far that little candle throws his beams!
So shines a good deed in a weary world.
~William Shakespeare


I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. ~William Penn


The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. ~Benjamin Disraeli


How beautiful a day can be
When kindness touches it!
~George Elliston

A kind word is like a Spring day. ~Russian Proverb

Quotes About Kindness I

Kindness is the greatest wisdom.


A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. ~Dave Barry


Always be a little kinder than necessary. ~James M. Barrie


If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach. ~Willie Davis


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.


Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. ~ H. Jackson Brown


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

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. ~Thomas Fuller


Life is short but there is always time for courtesy. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson


The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. ~Bertrand Russell


If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind. ~Alfred Fripp


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


One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. ~Booker T. Washington


The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. ~John E. Southard


Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. ~Samuel Johnson


A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. ~Chinese Proverb


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


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.

Quotes About Forgiveness II

Take it slowly. The deepest resentments are wrapped up in a lot of hurt and pain. We think we're protecting ourselves by not forgiving. Acknowledge that and go easy on yourself. Forgiveness means that you've decided not to let it keep festering inside even if it only comes up once in awhile. Forgiveness is a powerful yet challenging tool that will support and honor you, even in the most extreme circumstances.

The incoherence that results from holding on to resentments and unforgiving attitudes keeps you from being aligned with your true self. It can block you from your next level of quality life experience. Metaphorically, it's the curtain standing between the room you're living in now and a new room, much larger and full of beautiful objects. The act of forgiveness removes the curtain. Clearing up your old accounts can free up so much energy that you jump right into a whole new house. Forgiving releases you from the punishment of a self-made prison where you are both the inmate and the jailer.

Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. ~Paul Boese


There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site. ~Sydney Harris


Nobody forgets where he buried the hatchet. ~Frank McKinney


Yes, this is what good is: to forgive evil. There is no other good. ~Antonio Porchia


What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven. ~Mignon McLaughlin


It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him. ~Olin Miller


The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise. ~ Alden Nowlan



He who cannot forgive breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass. ~George Herbert

When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.


The Past: Our cradle, not our prison; there is danger as well as appeal in its glamour. The past is for inspiration, not imitation, for continuation, not repetition. ~ Israel Zangwill


Humanity is never so beautiful as when praying for forgiveness, or else forgiving another. ~ Jean Paul Richter

He who forgiveth, and is reconciled unto his enemy, shall receive his reward from God; for he loveth not the unjust doers. ~ Koran


Forgive many things in others; nothing in yourself. ~ Ausonius


It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend. ~ Madame Dorothée Deluzy


The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. ~ George Bernard Shaw


Always forgive your enemies--nothing annoys them so much. ~ Oscar Wilde


To err is human; to forgive, divine. ~ Alexander Pope


A woman who can't forgive should never have more than a nodding acquaintance with a man. ~ Ed Howe


If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless. ~ Mahatma Gandhi


Forgiveness is giving up the possibility of a better past.
I've learned that when you have an argument with your spouse, the first one who says, 'I'm sorry I hurt your feelings; please forgive me,' is the winner.

Quotes About Forgiveness I

At the core of the heart, you have the power to move beyond the old issues that are still hindering your freedom. The hardest things—the ones that push you up against your limits—are the very things you need to address to make a quantum leap into a fresh inner and outer life.

In the long run, it's not a question of whether they deserve to be forgiven. You're not forgiving them for their sake. You're doing it for yourself. For your own health and well-being, forgiveness is simply the most energy-efficient option. It frees you from the incredibly toxic, debilitating drain of holding a grudge. Don't let these people live rent free in your head. If they hurt you before, why let them keep doing it year after year in your mind? It's not worth it but it takes heart effort to stop it. You can muster that heart power to forgive them as a way of looking out for yourself. It's one thing you can be totally selfish about.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. ~Josh Billings


Without forgiveness life is governed by... an endless cycle of resentment and retaliation. ~Roberto Assagioli


One thing you will probably remember well is any time you forgive and forget. ~Franklin P. Jones


Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it forgoes revenge, and dares forgive an injury. ~E.H. Chapin


Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much. ~Oscar Wilde


I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note - torn in two, and burned up, so that it never can be shown against one. ~Henry Ward Beecher


Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~Mark Twain


Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast. ~Marlene Dietrich


It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ~Grace Hopper


The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~Mahatma Gandhi



Sincere forgiveness isn't colored with expectations that the other person apologize or change. Don't worry whether or not they finally understand you. Love them and release them. Life feeds back truth to people in its own way and time—just like it does for you and me.

To forgive is to set a prisoner free and discover that the prisoner was you. ~Lewis B. Smedes


Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. ~William Arthur Ward


It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend. ~William Blake


Forgiveness is the sweetest revenge. ~Isaac Friedmann


Forgive all who have offended you, not for them, but for yourself. ~Harriet Nelson


Many people are afraid to forgive because they feel they must remember the wrong or they will not learn from it. The opposite is true. Through forgiveness, the wrong is released from its emotional stranglehold on us so that we can learn from it. Through the power and intelligence of the heart, the release of forgiveness brings expanded intelligence to work with the situation more effectively.

Quotes About Sorry

An apology is a good way to have the last word.

In some families, please is described as the magic word. In our house, however, it was sorry. ~Margaret Laurence


You can make up a quarrel, but it will always show where it was patched. ~Edgar Watson Howe


A stiff apology is a second insult.... The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt. ~G.K. Chesterton


An apology is the superglue of life. It can repair just about anything. ~Lynn Johnston


When you realize you've made a mistake, make amends immediately. It's easier to eat crow while it's still warm. ~Dan Heist


Keep your words soft and tender because tomorrow you may have to eat them.


Never ruin an apology with an excuse. ~Kimberly Johnson


True remorse is never just a regret over consequence; it is a regret over motive. ~Mignon McLaughlin




There's one sad truth in life I've found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.
~Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Apologizing - a very desperate habit - one that is rarely cured. Apology is only egotism wrong side out. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes


It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them. ~P.G. Wodehouse




It's easier to apologize than ask for permission.


Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused. ~King Charles I


The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone. ~Harriet Beecher Stowe


Apology is a lovely perfume; it can transform the clumsiest moment into a gracious gift. ~Margaret Lee Runbeck


The only correct actions are those that demand no explanation and no apology. ~Red Auerbach




The only good thing about punctuality is that it usually gets you an apology.


It takes a great deal of character strength to apologize quickly out of one's heart rather than out of pity. A person must possess himself and have a deep sense of security in fundamental principles and values in order to genuinely apologize. ~ Stephen R. Covey

Quotes About Anger II

For every minute you are angry, you lose sixty seconds of happiness.


When angry, count four; when very angry, swear. ~Mark Twain


Anger is a bad counselor. ~French Proverb


Resentment is an extremely bitter diet, and eventually poisonous. I have no desire to make my own toxins. ~Neil Kinnock


Spite is never lonely; envy always tags along. ~Mignon McLaughlin


Always write angry letters to your enemies. Never mail them. ~James Fallows


Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. ~Buddha


Malice drinks one-half of its own poison. ~Seneca


Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him. ~Louis L'Armour


Never strike your wife - even with a flower. ~Hindu Proverb


Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. ~Ambrose Bierce


To carry a grudge is like being stung to death by one bee. ~William H. Walton


The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk. ~Jacqueline Schiff


When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket. ~Elbert Hubbard


Consider how much more you often suffer from your anger and grief, than from those very things for which you are angry and grieved. ~Marcus Antonius


Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger. ~Chinese Proverb


Never write a letter while you are angry. ~Chinese Proverb


Get mad, then get over it. ~Colin Powell


The world needs anger. The world often continues to allow evil because it isn't angry enough. ~Bede Jarrett


Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight. ~Phyllis Diller


In certain trying circumstances, urgent circumstances, desperate circumstances, profanity furnishes a relief denied even to prayer. ~Mark Twain


Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die. ~Malachy McCourt


Anger as soon as fed is dead -
'Tis starving makes it fat.
~Emily Dickinson


If you kick a stone in anger, you'll hurt your own foot. ~Korean Proverb


Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools. ~Albert Einstein

Quotes About Anger I

Anger makes dull men witty, but it keeps them poor.


When anger rises, think of the consequences. ~Confucius


If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. ~ Epictetus


Never forget what a man says to you when he is angry. ~ Henry Ward Beecher


A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger. ~ The Bible: Proverbs 15:1


If you are patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~ Chinese Proverb


It is easy to fly into a passion--anybody can do that--but to be angry with the right person and at the right time and with the right object and in the right way--that is not easy, and it is not everyone who can do it. ~ Aristotle


I was angry with my friend I told my wrath, my wrath did end. I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow. ~ William Blake



No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. ~George Jean Nathan


Anger is short-lived madness. ~Horace


Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love. ~George Eliot


If you're angry at a loved one, hug that person. And mean it. You may not want to hug - which is all the more reason to do so. It's hard to stay angry when someone shows they love you, and that's precisely what happens when we hug each other. ~Walter Anderson


Do not teach your children never to be angry; teach them how to be angry. ~Lyman Abbott


If a small thing has the power to make you angry, does that not indicate something about your size? ~Sydney J. Harris


There is nothing more galling to angry people than the coolness of those on whom they wish to vent their spleen. ~Alexandre Dumas


He who angers you conquers you. ~Elizabeth Kenny



Anger is one letter short of danger.


Anger ventilated often hurries toward forgiveness; and concealed often hardens into revenge. ~Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton


People who fly into a rage always make a bad landing. ~Will Rogers


Anger blows out the lamp of the mind. ~Robert G. Ingersoll


Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. ~ Benjamin Franklin


Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. ~ Isocrates


Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be. ~ Thomas Kempis



Sometimes when I'm angry I have the right to be angry, but that doesn't give me the right to be cruel.