People Quotes - Page 6

It is unfair to hold people responsible for our illusions of them.

The deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman is pity.

People who won't help others in trouble "because they got into trouble through their own fault" would probably not throw a lifeline to a drowning man until they learned whether he fell in through his own fault or not.

Sydney J. Harris

Justice and judgment lie often a world apart.

Emmeline Pankhurst

With compassion we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

Christina Baldwin

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Dr. Alexis Carrel

Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.

Margaret Deland

Really listening and suspending one's own judgment is necessary in order to understand other people on their own terms. As we have noted this is a process that requires trust and builds trust.

Mary Field Belenky

Reform is born of need not pity.

Rebecca Harding Davis

I am convinced that any feeling of exaltation because we have people under us should be conquered for I am sure that if we enjoy being over people there will be something in our manner which will make them dislike being under us.

Mary Parker Follett

Honesty without compassion and understanding is not honesty but subtle hostility.

Rose N. Franzblau

Theories and goals of education don't matter a whit if you do not consider your students to be human beings.

It's compassion that makes gods of us.

When God made up this world of ours He made it long and wide And meant that it should shelter all And none should be denied.

Carrie Jacobs Bond

Without kindness there can be no true joy.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground but a kind word is never thrown away.

Sir Arthur Helps

A word of kindness is seldom spoken in vain while witty sayings are as easily lost as the pearls slipping from a broken string.

George Prentice

A kind word is like a Spring day.

Russian proverb

Kindness is in our power even when fondness is not.

Kindness affects more than severity.

Aesop

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

Sir James M. Barrie

Kindness is the ability to love people more than they deserve.

Anonymous

The sense that someone else cares always helps because it is the sense of love.

George E. Woodberry

Today I bent the truth to be kind and I have no regret for I am far surer of what is kind that I am of what is true.

Kindness I've discovered is everything in life.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Goodwill... is an immeasurable and tremendous energy the atomic energy of the spirit.

Eleanor B. Stock

Goodwill is the mightiest practical force in the universe.

Charles F. Dole

Knowing sorrow well I learn to succor the distressed.

Virgil

Compassion is the basis of all morality.

Arthur Schopenhauer

Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others.

Right Now Is the Time to Be Kind You cannot do a kindness too soon for you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

There's no use in doing a kindness if you do it a day too late.

Charles Kingsley

He who sees a need and waits to be asked for help is as unkind as if he had refused it.

Dante Alighieri

To nourish children and raise them against odds is in any time any place more valuable than to fix bolts in cars or design nuclear weapons.

Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.

Lao Tzu

I'd like people to think of me as someone who cares about them.

Diana

Tenderness is greater proof of love than the most passionate of vows.

Marlene Dietrich

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.

One of the most valuable things we can do to heal one another is listen to each other's stories.

It's a rare thing graciousness. The shape of it can be acquired but not I think the substance.

Gertrude Schweitzer

Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness.

Marcus Annaeus Seneca

Oh! may each youthful bosom catch the sacred fire.

Ann Plato

Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.

Johann von Goethe

The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.

Abigail Van Buren

Sympathy is the charm of human life.

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

We bear the world and we make it. ... There was never a great man who had not a great mother-it is hardly an exaggeration.

Olive Schreiner

I wonder why it is that we are not all kinder to each other. ... How much the world needs it! How easily it is done!

Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice here by a smiling look there by a kindly word always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.

Therese of Lisieux

After the verb "to Love " "to Help" is the most beautiful verb in the world.

Bertha von Suttner

We are made kind by being kind.

Kindness causes us to learn and to forget many things.

Madame Swetchine

There is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others and comforting those that are sad.

Olive Schreiner

To be told we are loved is not enough. We must feel loved.

It's never what you say but how you make it sound sincere.

I never fight except against difficulties.

Nothing has happened today except kindness.

In a great romance each person plays a part the other really likes.

Elizabeth Ashley

Etiquette-a fancy word for simple kindness.

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