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| "Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate." --- Albert Schweitzer "Contention is contagious." --- Shane P. Sorenson "For attractive lips, speak words of kindness. For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people. For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry. For beautiful hair, let a child run his fingers through it once a day. For poise, walk with the knowledge you never walk alone." --- Sam Levenson "Getters generally don't get happiness; givers get it." --- Charles H. Burr "He who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love." --- Saint Basil "It�s not true that nice guys finish last. Nice guys are winners before the game even starts." --- Addison Walker "Judicious praise is to children what the sun is to flowers." --- Christian Nestell Bovee "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." --- Lao-Tzu "Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see." --- Mark Twain "Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." --- Theodore Isaac Rubin "Kindness is the noblest weapon to conquer with." --- American Proverb "Kindness to others adds fragrance to our friendships, love to our labors, warmth to our words, rainbows to our relationships, and harmony to our homes." --- William Arthur Ward "Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own." --- Adam Lindsay Gordon "Live for something. Do good, and leave behind you a monument of virtue that the storms of time can never destroy. Write your name in kindness, love, and mercy on the hearts of thousands you come in contact with year by year, and you will never be forgotten. Your name and your good deeds will shine as the stars of heaven." --- Thomas Chalmers "No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted." --- Aesop (Aesop's Fables) "No one has yet fully realized the wealth of sympathy, kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure." --- Emma Goldman "Only those who stand as children before God are really fit to live and work with children." --- Eberhard Arnold "Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end." --- Scott Adams "Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments." --- M. A. Kelty "Tell others of the positive effects of their actions. It will help return the kindness they showed to you." --- Dan Kelly "The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love." --- William Wordsworth "The highest form of wisdom is kindness." --- The Talmud " The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty and Truth." --- Albert Einstein "Write kindness in marble and write injuries in the dust." --- Persian Proverb "You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late." --- Ralph Waldo Emerson For other topics, click here. Submit your favorite kindness quotations to: [email protected] |
| The Rise of Human Kindness |