Kindness and giving quotes

You can get everything in life you want if you will just help enough other people get what they want.

If you go looking for a friend, you're going to find they're very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you'll find them everywhere.

Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain, and most fools do. But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.

Abilities wither under criticism, they blossom under encouragement.

When we hate our enemies, we are giving them power over us: power over our sleep, our appetites, our blood pressure, our health, and our happiness.

Successful people are always looking for opportunities to help others. Unsuccessful people are always asking, 'What's in it for me?'

Help others achieve their dreams and you will achieve yours.

I will greet this day with love in my heart.

Each day will be triumphant only when your smiles bring forth smiles from others.

Clear is kind. Unclear is unkind.

Leadership is not about being in charge. It is about taking care of those in your charge.

You do not become good by trying to be good, but by finding the goodness that is already within you, and allowing that goodness to emerge.

You have been criticizing yourself for years and it hasn't worked. Try approving of yourself and see what happens.

Life is really very simple. What we give out, we get back.

With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.

One of the difficulties with all our institutions is the fact that we've emphasized the reward instead of the service.

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others.

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices.

We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace.

When they go low, we go high.

No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead.

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

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are you doing for others?'

Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve.

Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend.

No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck.

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.

Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.

The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread.

Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love.

If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.

It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them.

It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance.

Without forgiveness there can be no future for a relationship between individuals or within and between nations.

A person is a person because he recognizes others as persons.

Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.

Every individual matters. Every individual has a role to play. Every individual makes a difference.

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

The more he does for others, the happier he is. The more he gives to others, the wealthier he is.

The best revenge is not to be like your enemy.

Do not act as if thou wert going to live ten thousand years. Death hangs over thee. While thou livest, while it is in thy power, be good.

Treat your men as you would your own beloved sons. And they will follow you into the deepest valley.

Whoever gives reverence receives reverence.

If an ant seeks the rank of Solomon, don't smile contemptuously upon its quest. Everything you possess of skill, and wealth and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?

The only reward of virtue is virtue; the only way to have a friend is to be one.

Love truth, but pardon error.

The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.

To do for the world more than the world does for you, that is Success.

Cleverness is a gift, kindness is a choice.

Everyone has an invisible sign hanging from his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important!'

The man who dies thus rich dies disgraced.

Startups don't win by attacking. They win by transcending.

When you lift up women, you lift up humanity.

Service is the highest human calling.

Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else.

You don't have to think about doing the right thing. If you're for the right thing, then you do it without thinking.

Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none.

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.

A person's a person, no matter how small.

There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

No one has ever become poor by giving.

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before beginning to improve the world!

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it for any one else.

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart.

You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.

The more I think it over, the more I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people.

Nothing is more important than empathy for another human being's suffering. Nothing, not a career, not wealth, not intelligence, certainly not status.

I am for people. I can't help it.

Always look for the helpers. There's always someone who is trying to help.

I think everybody longs to be loved, and longs to know that he or she is lovable. And, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they're loved and capable of loving.

If only you could sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to people you may never even dream of.

It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others.

All you need is love.

And love is love is love is love is love is love is love is love cannot be killed or swept aside.