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70+ Sweet Love Quotes For Her Or Him

admin — Wed, 14 Mar 2018 22:48:23 +0000

While you might liken yourself to a modern Don Juan or your lover’s soulmate, not all of us are poetic masters; we could all use a little eloquent inspiration to make that special someone swoon with just words. With the help of these endearing words, a cute night in with The Notebook or a romantic Florentine honeymoon can transform into an even sweeter moment of intimacy. Whether you decide to send these quotes over a flirty text or commit them to memory and recite them from the heart, your boyfriend or girlfriend will appreciate these tender affirmations of your adoration.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close.

Pablo Neruda

I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of.

Charles Bukowski

Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all.

Alfred Tennyson

You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love again. But if she loves you now, what else matters? She’s not perfect—you aren’t either, and the two of you may never be perfect together but if she can make you laugh, cause you to think twice, and admit to being human and making mistakes, hold onto her and give her the most you can. She may not be thinking about you every second of the day, but she will give you a part of her that she knows you can break—her heart. So don’t hurt her, don’t change her, don’t analyze and don’t expect more than she can give. Smile when she makes you happy, let her know when she makes you mad, and miss her when she’s not there.

Bob Marley

I think… if it is true that
there are as many minds as there
are heads, then there are as many
kinds of love as there are hearts.

Leo Tolstoy

Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star.
It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn’t even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.

Haruki Murakami

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

Robert A. Heinlein

When love is not madness it is not love.

Pedro Calderón de la Barca

If you remember me, then I don’t care if everyone else forgets.

Haruki Murakami

I fell in love with him. But I don’t just stay with him by default as if there’s no one else available to me. I stay with him because I choose to, every day that I wake up, every day that we fight or lie to each other or disappoint each other. I choose him over and over again, and he chooses me.

Veronica Roth

When I saw you I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew.

Arrigo Boito

Then I realize what it is. It’s him. Something about him makes me feel like I am about to fall. Or turn to liquid. Or burst into flames.

Veronica Roth

As he read, I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.

John Green

I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, against happiness, against all discouragement that could be.

Charles Dickens

You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.

Jodi Picoult

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,
in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

Pablo Neruda

Two people in love, alone, isolated from the world, that’s beautiful.

Milan Kundera

The heart was made to be broken.

Oscar Wilde

If you like her, if she makes you happy, and if you feel like you know her—then don’t let her go.

Nicholas Sparks

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

Martin Luther King Jr.

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back. Those who wish to sing always find a song. At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

I love you also means I love you more than anyone loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that no one loves you, or has loved you, or will love you, and also, I love you in a way that I love no one else, and never have loved anyone else, and never will love anyone else.

Jonathan Safran Foer

We waste time looking for the perfect lover, instead of creating the perfect love.

Tom Robbins

They say when you are missing someone that they are probably feeling the same, but I don’t think it’s possible for you to miss me as much as I’m missing you right now

Edna St. Vincent Millay

When I say it’s you I like, I’m talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed.

Fred Rogers

Being with you never felt wrong. It’s the one thing I did right. You’re the one thing I did right.

Becca Fitzpatrick

What she had realized was that love was that moment when your heart was about to burst.

Stieg Larsson

Let there be spaces in your togetherness, And let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: Let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.

Kahlil Gibran

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

Agatha Christie

For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.

Stephanie Perkins

I could not tell you if I loved you the first moment I saw you, or if it was the second or third or fourth. But I remember the first moment I looked at you walking toward me and realized that somehow the rest of the world seemed to vanish when I was with you.

Cassandra Clare

Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time.

Maya Angelou

It was love at first sight, at last sight, at ever and ever sight.

Vladimir Nabokov

When we love, we always strive to become better than we are. When we strive to become better than we are, everything around us becomes better too.

Paulo Coelho

Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

Lao Tzu

There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a heartbeat, in a single flashing, throbbing moment.

Sarah Dessen

Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn’t it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up.

Neil Gaiman

Come sleep with me: We won’t make Love, Love will make us.

Julio Cortázar

In your light I learn how to love. In your beauty, how to make poems. You dance inside my chest where no-one sees you, but sometimes I do, and that sight becomes this art.

Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

If she’s amazing, she won’t be easy. If she’s easy, she won’t be amazing. If she’s worth it, you wont give up. If you give up, you’re not worthy. … Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.

Bob Marley

Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt I love.

William Shakespeare

I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.

Pablo Neruda

I will love you always. When this red hair is white, I will still love you. When the smooth softness of youth is replaced by the delicate softness of age, I will still want to touch your skin. When your face is full of the lines of every smile you have ever smiled, of every surprise I have seen flash through your eyes, when every tear you have ever cried has left its mark upon your face,I will treasure you all the more, because I was there to see it all. I will share your life with you, Meredith, and I will love you until the last breath leaves your body or mine.

Laurell K. Hamilton

We love the things we love for what they are.

Robert Frost

If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don’t, they never were.

Kahlil Gibran

Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Yes, I was infatuated with you: I am still. No one has ever heightened such a keen capacity of physical sensation in me. I cut you out because I couldn’t stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my body, I must give my thoughts, my mind, my dreams. And you weren’t having any of those.

Sylvia Plath

Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering.

Nicole Krauss

So, I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.

Paulo Coelho

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.

Jonathan Safran Foer

Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age

John Dryden

If I had a flower for every time I thought of you…I could walk through my garden forever.

Alfred Tennyson

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Friedrich Nietzsche

You know you’re in love when you can’t fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.

Dr. Seuss

He’s more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Emily Brontë

The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Ernest Hemingway

I am yours. Don’t give myself back to me.

Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around.

Bob Marley

I will find that special person who is wrong for me in just the right way.

Galway Kinnell

Tonight I can write the saddest lines
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Pablo Neruda

Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!

Emily Brontë

When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.
Praise God for those two insomnias!
And the difference between them.

Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.

Albert Einstein

Happiness is holding someone in your arms and knowing you hold the whole world.

Orhan Pamuk

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Promise me you’ll never forget me because if I thought you would, I’d never leave.

A.A. Milne

I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it’s these things I’d believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn’t all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

One day you will kiss a man you can’t breathe without, and find that breath is of little consequence.

Karen Marie Moning

When I looked at you, my life made sense. Even the bad things made sense. They were
necessary to make you possible.

Jonathan Safran Foer

When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance.

John Lennon

Goodbyes are only for those who love with their eyes. Because for those who love with heart and soul there is no such thing as separation.

Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

70+ Quotes About Heroes And Being A Hero

admin — Tue, 27 Feb 2018 22:28:42 +0000

Every generation has their own collection of heroes. These heroes can come in all kinds.

Some of these heroes are famous around the world for their great acts. Some are unsung, quietly working from the shadows to make their world a better place. Some are tragic heroes whose good intentions go awry and sadly end up leading to their own destruction.

Regardless of whatever kind of hero it is, there have been quotes from all over the world to inspire and encourage. The quotes presented here are to inspire your own hero's journey.

Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.

Peter S. Beagle

That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.

Paulo Coelho

Heroes don’t have the need to be known as heroes, they just do what heroes do because it is right and it must be done.

Shannon A. Thompson

Dead people can be our heroes because they can’t disappoint us later; they only improve over time, as we forget more and more about them.

Veronica Roth

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

George Bernard Shaw

A hero. You want to be one of those rare human beings who make history, rather than merely watch it flow around them like water around a rock.

Dan Simmons

Nothing is given to man on earth – struggle is built into the nature of life, and conflict is possible – the hero is the man who lets no obstacle prevent him from pursuing the values he has chosen.

Andrew Bernstein

No, what he didn’t like about heroes was that they were usually suicidally gloomy when sober and homicidally insane when drunk.

Terry Pratchett

You learn eventually that, while there are no villains, there are no heroes either. And until you make the final discovery that there are only human beings, who are therefore all the more fascinating, you are liable to miss something.

Paul Gallico

The hero is commonly the simplest and obscurest of men.

Henry David Thoreau

Ultimately a hero is a man who would argue with the gods, and so awakens devils to contest his vision. The more a man can achieve, the more he may be certain that the devil will inhabit a part of his creation.

Norman Mailer

Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They’re just braver 5 minutes longer.

Ronald Reagan

Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.

Calvin Coolidge

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces “nice” people, not heroes.

Peter Kreeft

To be heroic is to be courageous enough to die for something; to be inspirational is to be crazy enough to live a little.

Criss Jami

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

Umberto Eco

The heroic cannot be the common, nor the common the heroic.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

F. Scott Fitzgerald

All the heroes of tomorrow are the heretics of today.

E.Y. Harburg

You don’t raise heroes, you raise sons. And if you treat them like sons, they’ll turn out to be heroes, even if it’s just in your own eyes.

Walter M. Schirra, Sr.

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

Charles Horton Cooley

Real heroes are men who fall and fail and are flawed, but win out in the end because they’ve stayed true to their ideals and beliefs and commitments.

Kevin Costner

So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly rise and make them miserable.

Aldous Huxley

What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

To be heroic may mean nothing more than this then, to stand in the face of the status quo, in the face of an easy collapse into the madness of an increasingly chaotic world and represent another way.

Mike Alsford

I am of certain convinced that the greatest heroes are those who do their duty in the daily grind of domestic affairs whilst the world whirls as a maddening dreidel.

Florence Nightingale

The hero draws inspiration from the virtue of his ancestors.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up … discovering we have the strength to stare it down.

Eleanor Roosevelt

The prudent see only the difficulties, the bold only the advantages, of a great enterprise; the hero sees both; diminishes the former and makes the latter preponderate, and so conquers.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

The women of Afghanistan, Iraq, and Iran who risk their lives and their beauty to defy the foulness of theocracy. Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Azar Nafisi as their ideal feminine model.

Christopher Hitchens

Friends are the real superheroes. They battle our worst enemies—loneliness, grief, anxiety, depression, fear, and doubt—every time they come around.

Richelle E. Goodrich

The legacy of heroes is the memory of a great name and the inheritance of a great example.

Benjamin Disraeli

But heroes, at times, had to be fools.

Steve Berry

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can’t be a lasting thing. That’s not saying that people shouldn’t keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war.

Jim Morrison

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Bob Dylan

Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

Winston S. Churchill

Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.

Mark Twain

Men have to have heroes, but no man can ever be as big as the need, and so a legend grows around a grain of truth, like a pearl.

Peter S. Beagle

Heroes are those who can somehow resist the power of the situation and act out of noble motives, or behave in ways that do not demean others when they easily can.

Philip G. Zimbardo

The world’s battlefields have been in the heart chiefly; more heroism has been displayed in the household and the closet, than on the most memorable battlefields in history.

Henry Ward Beecher

Most have been forgotten. Most deserve to be forgotten. The heroes will always be remembered. The best. The best and the worst. And a few who were a bit of both.

George R.R. Martin

A hero is someone who has given his or her life to something bigger than oneself.

Joseph Campbell

We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.

Brad Meltzer

People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.

Chris Colfer

To be heroic does not have to mean possessing the ability to stand against the evils of the world, either well or successfully, but just that one is willing to stand.

Mike Alsford

What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.

Frida Kahlo

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others, at whatever cost.

Arthur Ashe

Heroes became extinct when saving the world became more important to rescue a damsel in distress.

L.A. Serröt

I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people.

Maya Angelou

That’s why you can’t give up. Heroes don’t give up.

Kiera Cass

Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats.

Mahatma Gandhi

The hero sees values beyond what’s possible. That’s the nature of a hero. It kills him, of course, ultimately. But it makes the whole struggle of humanity worthwhile.

You were the one who taught me,” he said. “I never looked at you without seeing the sweetness of the way the world goes together, or without sorrow for its spoiling. I became a hero to serve you, and all that is like you.

Peter S. Beagle

As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.

Ernest Hemingway

My own heroes are the dreamers, those men and women who tried to make the world a better place than when they found it, whether in small ways or great ones. Some succeeded, some failed, most had mixed results… but it is the effort that’s heroic, as I see it. Win or lose, I admire those who fight the good fight.

George R.R. Martin

Heroes are made by the paths they choose, not the powers they are graced with.

Brodi Ashton

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He’s dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he’s a hero the whole time.

Frank Miller

What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Edward Abbey

Anyway, if you need your heroes to be perfect, you won’t have very many. Even Superman had his Kryptonite. I’d rather have my heroes be more like me: trying to do the right thing, sometimes messing up. Making mistakes. Saying you’re sorry. And forgiving other people when they mess up, too.

Madeleine George

When you’re truly awesome, you know that it’s actually a burden and wish day after day to be relieved of such a curse. Think of about 95% of the superheroes.

Criss Jami

Anyone who does anything to help a child in his life is a hero to me.

Fred Rogers

Heroes aren’t heroes because they worship the light, but because they know the darkness all to well to stand down and live with it.

Ninya Tippett

Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.

Will Rogers

Someone needs to fight, someone needs to sacrifice, someone needs to inspire, someone needs to be a hero.

Amit Kalantri

There are no heroes…in life, the monsters win.

George R.R. Martin

I think—the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center.

Jorge Luis Borges

But no man’s a hero to himself.

Ray Bradbury

Over 150 Fantastic Thank You Quotes

Sam Gibbons — Sun, 09 Jul 2017 16:39:51 +0000

 Gratitude is the gift that keeps giving. An increasing number of studies extoll the benefits of having a regular gratitude practice. It does everything from improving sleep and relationships to boosting physical and mental health. So use these quotes to jumpstart your own thankfulness practice. They would also be a valuable addition to your journal.

Thank You Quotes For Friends

Thank those who have been by your side through thick and thin. Yes we are talking about your friends. You love them, don’t you? Then show them just how much with the following quotes.

The language of friendship is not words, but meanings.

Henry David Thoreau

We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.

Thornton Wilder

It takes a long time to grow an old friend.

John Leonard

In ordinary life we hardly realize that we receive a great deal more than we give, and that it is only with gratitude that life becomes rich.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Celebrate the happiness that friends are always giving, make every day a holiday and celebrate just living!

Amanda Bradley

One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind.

Malayan Proverb

You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job.

Laurence J. Peter

Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art…. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

C.S. Lewis

Unselfish and noble actions are the most radiant pages in the biography of souls.

David Thomas

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

Teresa Calcutta

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure, but, scattered along life’s pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Joseph Addison

The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile, nor the joy of companionship; it is the spiritual inspiration that comes to one when he discovers that someone else believes in him and willing to trust him.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings and that which we take the least care of all to acquire.

Francois de la Rochefoucauld

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island. To find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing.

Baltasar Gracian

My father prayed because he had a good friend with whom to share the problems of the day.

Corrie Ten Boom

I thank you for your kindness, I will not soon forget; You’re one of the nicest people I have ever met.

Joanna Fuchs

But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.

Thomas Jefferson

It isn’t the size of the gift that matters, but the size of the heart that gives it.

Eileen Elias Freeman

In everyone’s life, at some time, our inner fire goes out.

It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit.

Albert Schweitzer

Thank You Quotes For Teachers

Sometimes you love them and sometime you hate them, but regardless of how you feel, your teachers are certainly deserving of thanks. Why not send them one of the following quotes in a card?

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

William A. Ward

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

Henry Adams

One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

Carl Jung

It takes a big heart to help shape little minds.

Unknown

Being able to help someone learn something is a talent.

Margaret Riel

Give your thanks to the needle that stuck in your finger, to wooden beam that you hit your head, to bee that stung you on your hand, because they taught you something!

Mehmet Murat ildan

A good teacher is like a candle – it consumes itself to light the way for others.

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

To the world you may just be a teacher, but to your students you are a HERO.

Unknown

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

Alexander the Great

Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Theodore Roosevelt

Teachers appreciate being appreciated, for teacher appreciation is their highest award.

William Prince

We often take for granted the very things that most deserve our gratitude.

Cynthia Ozick

In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day’s work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years.

Jacques Barzun

Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.

Bob Talbert

To stimulate life, leaving it then free to develop, to unfold, herein lies the first task of the teacher.

Maria Montessori

Teacher appreciation makes the world of education go around.

Helen Peters

Without teacher appreciation there can’t be any student progress.

Theresa Grimm

If students don’t feel teacher appreciation, their whole education has failed.

Michael Balkers

What the teacher is, is more important than what he teaches.

Soren Kierkegaard

A good education is like a savings account; the more you put into it, the richer you are.

Anonymous

Thank You Quotes For Birthdays

Know someone who has a birthday coming up? Show them you care with one of our quotes. You just might make their day. Sometimes all we want is a little appreciation.

We must find time to stop and thank the people who make a difference in our lives.

John F. Kennedy

I am thankful for nights that turned into mornings, friends that turned into family and dreams that turned into reality.

Anonymous

Congratulations! Today is your day. You’re off to great places. You’re off and away.

Dr. Seuss

How beautiful a day can be, when kindness touches it!

George Elliston

The heart of the giver makes the gift dear and precious.

Martin Luther

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

Richard Bach

A hug is the perfect gift – one size fits all, and nobody minds if you exchange it.

Ivern Ball

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in your heart.

A.A. Milne

It isn’t the size of the gift that matters, but the size of the heart that gives it.

Eileen Elias Freeman

Of gifts, there seems none more becoming to offer a friend than a beautiful book.

Amos Bronson Alcott

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Charles Dudley Warner

Every gift which is given, even though it be small, is in reality great, if it be given with affection.

Pindar

You gave me your time, the most thoughtful gift of all.

Dan Zadra

Thank You Quotes For Your Boss

Stay in your boss’ good books by sending him or her one of the following quotes. Yes, even bosses deserve a thank you sometimes. Believe it or not, they have hearts too. He or she is sure to appreciate the gesture.

Management is doing things right; Leadership is doing the right things.

Peter F. Drucker

I wanted to let you know how much I appreciate you for being my manager and mentor. You helped shape my career and professional life and showed me how to transform my mistakes into skills. I really appreciate everything you have taught me!

Anonymous

Your leadership skills make it easy for you to manage our team, even with our diverse professional background. I’m proud to have learned some of these qualities from you. Thank you for guiding me professionally and personally!

Anonymous

Words can neither qualify nor quantify how helpful your guidance and advice has been. I am forever grateful for your support!

Anonymous

You have been a great manager, mentor, teacher, and guide. Your support and advice has helped shape my professional career. Thanks for being the best boss ever!

Anonymous

Leadership is not about titles, positions, or flow charts. It is about one life influencing another.

John C. Maxwell

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don’t necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

Rosalyn Carter

The art of leadership is saying no, not yes. It is very easy to say yes.

Tony Blair

Leadership is an action, not a position.

Donald McGannon

A good leader leads the people from above them. A great leader leads the people from within them.

M.D. Arnold

If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The greatest gift anyone can give another person: believing in them.

Jim Valvano

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Theodore Roosevelt

I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more.

Jonas Salk

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.

Helen Keller

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Henry Ford

Probably no greater honor can come to any man than the respect of his colleagues.

Cary Grant

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

George Bernard Shaw

We should not only use the brains we have, but all that we can borrow.

Thomas Woodrow Wilson

Character is doing the right thing when nobody’s looking.

J.C. Watts

Thank You Quotes For Your Husband

Treat your better half with some kind words of gratitude when you wake up. Regardless of what his love language is, it is sure to make his day. To be repeated daily!

When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage.

Martin Luther

One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.

Benjamin Franklin

The more you invest in a marriage, the more valuable it becomes.

Amy Grant

Marriage: Love is the reason. Lifelong friendship is the gift. Kindness is the cause. Til’ death do us part is the length.

Fawn Weaver

Being in a long marriage is a little bit like that nice cup of coffee every morning – I might have it every day, but I still enjoy it.

Stephen Gaines

Before I met my husband, I’d never fallen in love. I’d stepped in it a few times.

Rita Rudner

We have the greatest pre-nuptial agreement in the world. It’s called love.

Gene Perret

I hold myself supremely blest – blest beyond what language can express; because I am my husband’s life as fully as he is mine.

Charlotte Brontë

In a time when nothing is more certain than change, the commitment of two people to one another has become difficult and rare. Yet, by its scarcity, the beauty and value of this exchange have only been enhanced.

Robert Sexton

The man who puts into the marriage only half of what he owns will get that out.

Ronald Reagan

I am my beloved and my beloved is mine.

Song of Solomon 6:3

When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly dearest better than I do now.

C. S. Lewis

Love isn’t something you feel at the beginning of your relationship that goes away after the honeymoon phase. Love is a decision that you make when you wake up everyday and look at that person that you made a commitment to.

Kimanzi Constable

When I am frustrated with my husband and feel like giving up on us, I have two choices. One: I can choose love and work on my marriage or: Two, I can choose love and work on my marriage.

Darlene Schacht

Love is not about grand intentions. It is about small attentions.

Robert Brault

As husbands, I think one reason we have some trouble with Paul’s command to love our wives “as Christ loved the church,” is that we don’t really fully know how Christ loves the church.

Scott Means

I want my husband to lead me and our family. But in order for him to do that I must be willing to submit to his lead. This does not mean I surrender my opinions or input or wisdom…it means I surrender my grip of control and selfish ways and trust him!

Jennifer Smith

Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing as she mops up the floor after her husband has walked across it in his barn boots.

Hoosier farmer saying

When your husband has lost his joy and doesn’t have a smile of his own, give him yours. Better still, top it off with a kiss.

Ngina Otiende

Thank You Quotes For Her

Whoever the women in your life may be—mother, wife, daughter or friend—show them how much you care with a few simple quotes. You will be surprised at what a difference it makes.

A Mother holds her children’s hands for a while… their hearts forever.

Unknown

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

A mother is the truest friend we have…

Washington Irving

It’s not easy being a mother. If it were easy, fathers would do it.

Unknown

I know how to do anything – I’m a Mom.

Roseanne Barr

Any mother could perform the jobs of several air traffic controllers with ease.

Lisa Alther

If at first you don’t succeed, do it like your mother told you.

Unknown

Mother – that was the bank where we deposited all our hurts and worries.

Thomas De Witt Talmage

Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.

Jean Anouilh

Being a full-time mother is one of the highest salaried jobs…, since the payment is pure love.

Mildred B. Vermont

A thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.

Cicero

You won’t be happy with more until you’re happy with what you’ve got.

Viki King

When I started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.

Willie Nelson

There is a calmness to a life lived in Gratitude, a quiet joy.

Ralph H. Blum

The unthankful heart discovers no mercies; but the thankful heart will find, in every hour, some heavenly blessings.

Henry Ward Beecher

The thankful receiver bears a plentiful harvest.

William Blake

The grateful mind is constantly fixed upon the best. Therefore it tends to become the best. It takes the form or character of the best, and will receive the best.

Wallace D. Wattles

People who live the most fulfilling lives are the ones who are always rejoicing at what they have.

Richard Carlson

So often we dwell on the things that seem impossible rather than on the things that are possible. So often we are depressed by what remains to be done and forget to be thankful for all that has been done.

Marian Wright Edelman

None is more impoverished than the one who has no gratitude. Gratitude is a currency that we can mint for ourselves, and spend without fear of bankruptcy.

Fred De Witt Van Amburgh

Thank You Quotes For Your Parents

Get inspired by our quotes and give your mom and dad a ring today to tell them you love them. You can never thank them enough for everything they have done for you and can be sure that there was a lot more they did behind the scenes.

Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.

H. Jackson Brown Jr.

You are the bows from which your children, as living arrows, are sent forth.

Kahlil Gibran

To give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.

Oscar Wilde

If you can give your son or daughter only one gift, let it be enthusiasm.

Bruce Barton

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.

Denis Waitley

All kids need is a little help, a little hope and somebody who believes in them.

Earvin “Magic” Johnson

The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

Oscar Wilde

The best thing to give to your… child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you.

Benjamin Franklin

There are three degrees of filial piety. The highest is being a credit to our parents, the second is not disgracing them; the lowest is being able simply to support them.

Confucius

Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep.

Felix Frankfurter

Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

William Makepeace Thackeray

A mother is the truest friend we have…

Washington Irving

It is not flesh and blood but the heart which makes us fathers and sons.

Friedrich Schiller

To her the name of father was another name for love.

Fanny Fern

He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.

Clarence Budington Kelland

My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person, he believed in me.

Jim Valvano

My father used to play with my brother and me in the yard. Mother would come out and say, “You’re tearing up the grass.” “We’re not raising grass,” Dad would reply. “We’re raising boys.”

Harmon Killebrew

All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel Mother.

Abraham Lincoln

God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers.

Jewish Proverb

Mother’s love is peace. It need not be acquired, it need not be deserved.

Erich Fromm

Thank You Quotes For Your Employees

Do you ever thank the people who work for you? Yes, you hired them, but that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t appreciate some bonus words of kindness. Take your cue from the following quotes.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Abraham Lincoln

Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.

Henry Ford

Apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.

Napoleon Hill

Every job is a self-portrait of the person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.

Unknown

If you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don’t have integrity, nothing else matters.

Alan K. Simpson

The rewards go to the risk-takers, those who are willing to put their egos on the line and reach out to other people and to a richer, fuller life for themselves.

Susan RoAne

Getting money is not all a man’s business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life.

Samuel Johnson

Well then, if ever I thank any man, I’ll thank you.

William Shakespeare

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

John E. Southard

Praise the bridge that carried you over.

George Colman “the Younger”

Silent gratitude isn’t very much to anyone.

Gertrude Stein

People want to be understood and respected as individuals. Years ago, an executive editor of mine said, ‘You should count the number of times you praise somebody and then double that.’ Even the toughest, steeliest writer or editor often really wants to be told, ‘Hey, that was a great piece.’ Early in my career as a manager, it probably took me a while to realize that everyone wants that. It’s just a human need.

Cindi Leive, editor-in-chief of Glamour

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.

Robert Brault

What’s interesting about investing in people for the long term is that you don’t do it for a return. You do it because that’s how you connect with people, and it’s how you truly build a sustaining relationship … We have about 30 employees, and every day we sit together for lunch at one big table, and we don’t talk about work. It really brings you so much closer.

Lorna Borenstein, founder and CEO of Grokker

I learned [about leadership] from my mother, and I learned from watching politics. It’s about getting people vested in the outcome of success. … I was the chairman, so if the board did well, I was going to get credit for it. But I felt it was important to let other people get credit and recognition, and it gave them more of a sense of ownership in general.

R. Donahue Peebles, CEO of the Peebles Corporation

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgivings, turn routine jobs into joy, and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.

William Arthur Ward

One of our values … is that we are never done. That speaks to the idea of being tenacious — there is good, but you can do it even better. But you have to celebrate wins and let everyone who worked hard on something know that they were successful and that you’re proud of the team. When I was younger, I would just skip right over that. But now I understand that recognition is very important.

Niraj Shah, cofounder and CEO of Wayfair.com

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

I like being surrounded by people who have very little fear and very little respect for the past — not in a negative way, but in a positive way. They appreciate everything that’s been done, but they constantly look for how to do it better. When you lead with what’s possible, and how you create value for people, it’s energizing. Being around that kind of energy and inspiration has allowed me to think bigger than I probably ever would have thought.

Dan Rosensweig, president and chief executive of Chegg

Gratitude turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos into order, confusion into clarity…it makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

Thank You Quotes For Your Sister

No matter how much you fought with your sister, you cannot deny that she has done some pretty amazing things for you. So in honor of all the wonderful moments you shared, write to her and thank her for being in your life.

You can kid the world. But not your sister.

Charlotte Gray

How do people make it through life without a sister?

Sara Corpening Whiteford

A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.

Isadora James

If you don’t understand how a woman could both love her sister dearly and want to wring her neck at the same time, then you were probably an only child.

Linda Sunshine

Sisters is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship.

Margaret Mead

When sisters stand shoulder to shoulder, who stands a chance against us?

Pam Brown

But most are like my sister and me… linked by volatile love, best friends who make other best friends ever so slightly less best.

Patricia Volk

To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident… it is to have a soulmate for life.

Victoria Secunda

Where shall we see a better daughter or a kinder sister or a truer friend.

Jane Austen

There can be no situation in life in which the conversation of my dear sister will not administer some comfort to me.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

A sister is a gift to the heart, a friend to the spirit, a golden thread to the meaning of life.

Isadora James

Sisters are best friends, they are advisors, they are teachers, and best of all they are people with whom you can talk with about anything – someone you have a special bond with!

Catherine Pulsifer

Sisters are the people we practice on, the people who teach us about fairness and cooperation and kindness and caring – quite often the hard way.

Pamela Dugdale

There’s a special kind of freedom sisters enjoy. Freedom to share innermost thoughts, to ask a favor, to show their true feelings. The freedom to simply be themselves.

Unknown

Husbands come and go; children come and eventually they go. Friends grow up and move away. But the one thing that’s never lost is your sister.

Gail Sheeny

Sisters are for sharing laughter and wiping tears.

Unknown

Sister you were the one I always told on, now you’re the friend I always lean on.

Unknown

I feel so privileged that you are my sister! You are a very special gift that Mother Nature provided me with! You have always been there for me and accompanied me and guided me in every way you could!

Babe Arish

Appreciation I send to you my sister, for always being there, for your support and encouragment. On you I can always count.

Catherine Pulsifer

Growing up you sometimes got the blame for things I did, but you always loved me not matter what. Now that I am older you my sister I am grateful for.

Kate Summers

Thank You Quotes For Your Family

Not everyone has a loving family, so if you are one of the lucky ones, you ought to let them know just how much you appreciate them. And if you are at a loss for words, use the quotes we have gathered here for inspiration.

Our most basic instinct is not for survival but for family. Most of us would give our own life for the survival of a family member, yet we lead our daily life too often as if we take our family for granted.

Paul Pearshall

The family is one of nature’s masterpieces.

George Santayana

Family and friends are hidden treasures, seek them and enjoy their riches.

Wanda Hope Carter

My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world.

Unknown

Your family and your love must be cultivated like a garden. Time, effort, and imagination must be summoned constantly to keep any relationship flourishing and growing.

Jim Rohn

Home sweet home. This is the place to find happiness. If one doesn’t find it here, one doesn’t find it anywhere.

M. K. Soni

When I think of any of my successes, I am thankful to God from whom all blessings flow, and to my family and friends who enrich my life.

Unknown

Surround yourself with what you love, whether it’s family, pets, keepsakes, music, plants, hobbies, whatever.

George Carlin

Our attitude determines so much. It affects not only us, but it affects those around us, our family, our friends, and our co-workers.

Catherine Pulsifer

Whatever they grow up to be, they are still our children, and the one most important of all the things we can give to them is unconditional love. Not a love that depends on anything at all except that they are our children.

Rosaleen Dickson

I think my mother is my biggest influence. There are so many things I hate about her but at the same time I’m thankful for her. All I know is that when I’m a parent I want to be just like my mom. I can talk to my mom more than any of my friends could talk to their parents.

Nikki Reed

I was given such a great gift. It’s a miracle that never stops amazing me and reminding me to give thanks, every day. Having a wife and daughter gives me a lot more purpose. I was much more selfish before, but now I think about what kind of role model I’ll be. I just want to be a better man.

Jake Owen

Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

Melody Beattie

Many times, the decisions we make affect and hurt your closest friends and family the most. I have a lot of regrets in that regard. But God has forgiven me, which I am very thankful for. It has enabled me to forgive myself and move forward one day at a time.

Lex Luger

Be true to yourself, help others, make each day your masterpiece, make friendship a fine art, drink deeply from good books – especially the Bible, build a shelter against a rainy day, give thanks for your blessings and pray for guidance every day.

John Wooden

I’m just thankful for everything, all the blessings in my life, trying to stay that way. I think that’s the best way to start your day and finish your day. It keeps everything in perspective.

Tim Tebow

Make it a habit to tell people thank you. To express your appreciation, sincerely and without the expectation of anything in return. Truly appreciate those around you, and you’ll soon find many others around you. Truly appreciate life, and you’ll find that you have more of it.

Ralph Marston

I do believe that God blessed me in life with a wonderful family, a successful career, and a loving marriage, and remain thankful for that blessing.

Bonnie Tyler

If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

Meister Eckhart

My mother is such an incredibly strong woman. She raised a family of five boys extremely well. She made us all strong, loving, caring people. We all support each other. I’m really thankful to her.

Henry Cavill

Over 150 Thought Provoking Kindness Quotes

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Kindness will never go out of fashion. You simply don’t know what difference you can make in someone else’s life with just a few moments out of your day. Not only that, it feels good! Sharing these quotes is a good place to start if you are looking to improve in this area.

Kindness Quotes For Kids

Perhaps no one benefits as much from kindness as a child. By teaching him or her about this important value early on in life, you will be doing a service to the rest of the world. Reading these quotes together is a good starting point.

Never believe that a few caring people can’t change the world. For, indeed, that’s all who ever have.

Margaret Mead

What this world needs is a new kind of army – the army of the kind.

Cleveland Amory

The simple act of caring is heroic.

Edward Albert

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

Aesop

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

Do your little bit of good where you are; it’s those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.

Desmond Tutu

Three things in human life are important: the first is to be kind; the second is to be kind; and the third is to be kind.

Henry James

When you are kind to others, it not only changes you, it changes the world.

Harold Kushner

I feel the capacity to care is the thing which gives life its deepest significance.

Pablo Casals

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.

Plato

A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.

Steve Maraboli

Always be a little kinder than necessary.

James M. Barrie

A kind word is like a Spring day.

Russian Proverb

Always be kind, for everyone is fighting a hard battle.

Plato

A person who does things that count, doesn’t usually stop to count them.

Unknown

A sensitive soul sees the world through the lens of love.

Unknown

A single act of kindness throws out roots in all directions, and the roots spring up and make new trees.

Amelia Earhart

As we work to create light for others, we naturally light our own way.

Mary Anne Radmacher

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

William Arthur Ward

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Marian Wright Edelman

Kindness Quotes From The Dalai Lama

The Dalai Lama may well be the embodiment of kindness. So he is more than qualified to tell us about how to cultivate the quality and explain to us its significance. Get inspired with a selection of his quotes.

Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.

Dalai Lama

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.

Dalai Lama

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Dalai Lama

Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn’t anyone who doesn’t appreciate kindness and compassion.

Dalai Lama

Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

Dalai Lama

In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

Dalai Lama

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can’t help them, at least don’t hurt them.

Dalai Lama

When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Dalai Lama

One of the basic points is kindness. With kindness, with love and compassion, with his feeling that is the essence of brotherhood, sisterhood, one will have inner peace. This compassionate feeling is the basis of inner peace.

Dalai Lama

The goal is not to be better than the other man, but your previous self.

Dalai Lama

The true hero is one who conquers his own anger and hatred.

Dalai Lama

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

Dalai Lama

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.

Dalai Lama

Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace.

Dalai Lama

Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.

Dalai Lama

More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of whether we have a religious framework or not. When we nurture this most basic human resource – when we set about cultivating those basic inner values which we all appreciate in others, then we start to live spiritually.

Dalai Lama

Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance or my kindness for weakness. Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength.

Dalai Lama

As long as we observe love for others and respect for their rights and dignity in our daily lives, then whether we are learned or unlearned, whether we believe in the Buddha or God, follow some religion or none at all, as long as we have compassion for others and conduct ourselves with restraint out of a sense of responsibility, there is no doubt we will be happy.

Dalai Lama

Mentally, physically and emotionally we are the same.

We each have the potential to good and bad and to be overcome by disturbing emotions such as anger, fear, hatred, suspicion and greed. These emotions can be the cause of many problems.

On the other hand if you cultivate loving kindness, compassion and concern for others, there will be no room for anger, hatred and jealousy.

Dalai Lama

Peace starts within each one of us. When we have inner peace, we can be at peace with those around us. When our community is in a state of peace, it can share peace with neighboring communities, and so on. When we feel love and kindness towards others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.

Dalai Lama

Quotes On Why Kindness Matters

Deep down, we all know kindness is of the utmost importance. Let these quotes remind you just how significant it really is. It is the first step in practicing it every day.

Carry out a random act of kindness, with no expectation of reward, safe in the knowledge that one day someone might do the same for you.

Princess Diana

Goodness is about character – integrity, honesty, kindness, generosity, moral courage, and the like. More than anything else, it is about how we treat other people.

Dennis Prager

A warm smile is the universal language of kindness.

William Arthur Ward

A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.

Saint Basil

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

Lao Tzu

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

We are constituted so that simple acts of kindness, such as giving to charity or expressing gratitude, have a positive effect on our long-term moods. The key to the happy life, it seems, is the good life: a life with sustained relationships, challenging work, and connections to community.

Paul Bloom

Here are the values that I stand for: honesty, equality, kindness, compassion, treating people the way you want to be treated and helping those in need. To me, those are traditional values.

Ellen DeGeneres

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

John Ruskin

Love and kindness are never wasted. They always make a difference. They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver.

Barbara De Angelis

What matters are those ordinary acts of kindness and of love, not vaulting ambition with its attendant hubris and smugness.

Michael Dirda

Only kindness matters. We are God’s hands.

Jewel

In the end only kindness matters.

Jewel

Kindness it is that brings forth kindness always.

Sophocles

It really shocks me when I encounter people who think kindness doesn’t matter. Because I think it’s pretty much the only thing that matters.

Josh Radnor

Such simple and steady acts of kindness are the essence of love, the substance of life. All of us need love; all of us want love. Everything else is a consolation prize. What matters is love.

Lloyd D. Newell

Money is but one venue for generosity. Kindness is an even more valuable currency.

Alan Cohen

In the end, what really matters? Only kindness. Only making somebody a little happier for your presence.

Nancy Horan

All the work I do is built on a foundation of loving-kindness. Love illuminates matters.

Bell Hooks

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Quotes About Kindness As A Weakness

Kindness is too often mistaken for weakness as the following quotes demonstrate. Let them help you remember this important distinction and keep you from judging someone else unfairly or hastily.

Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weak is not what you are going to remember about me.

Al Capone

Don’t ever mistake my silence for ignorance, my calmness for acceptance and my kindness for weakness.

Unknown

There comes a time when you have to choose between turning the page and closing the book.

Josh Jameson

Don’t mistake my kindness for weakness
Don’t mistake my love for ignorance
Don’t confuse my accepting for condoning
Choosing the wrong path with me will provide you with the direction right out of my life.

Unknown

Being nice to someone you dislike doesn’t mean you’re fake, it means you are mature enough to control your emotions.

Unknown

Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.

Robert Tew

I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

Maya Angelou

I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations.

Joquesse Eugenia

Take very little notice on those people who choose to treat you poorly. It is how they are defining their story not yours.

Lei Wah

It is okay to be angry. It is never okay to be cruel.

Unknown

People just take your kindness for weakness sometimes, and that’s just the bottom line.

Ruben Studdard

I don’t worry about people misinterpreting my kindness for weakness.

Jason Bateman

If someone mistakes your kindness for weakness, that’s their fault – not yours. And it’s OK to be a decent human being in this life.

Jeremy Piven

Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.

Khalil Gibran

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

Mark Twain

We must not mistake kindness for weakness. Kindness isn’t weak. Kindness is a certain type of strength.

Jim Rohn

Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Teresa

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Hubert H. Humphrey

There is an age-old proverb that really does hold true in every area of life – in relations between nations and right down to the most subtle and sophisticated or must unstable and unsophisticated relations between lovers – and it is this: they took “kindness” for “weakness.”

Sylvester Stallone

There is a fear of peace that I don’t understand. Witness the old epithet “peaceniks,” the association of peace with weakness. We mistake kindness for weakness in individuals, too. Gandhi found the essence of Christianity to be gentleness, the exaltation of means over ends. Using violence, against us or them, to achieve peace is like beating children to get them to be good. It only works in the short term. Believe in peace, think peace, live peace. Be a building-block of peace. Make it the center of your strength.

Jennifer James

Quotes About Kindness To Others

Get inspiration from writers, artists and comedians such as Maya Angelou, Bob Hope, Louisa M. Alcott, Conan O’Brien, Josh Radnor and more regarding how best to treat the people in your life.

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

How wise must one be to be always kind!

Marie Dubsky

If someone were to pay you ten cents for every kind word you said about people and collect five cents for every unkind word, would you be rich or poor?

Unknown

Kindness is just love with its workboots on.

Karen McCullah

[K]ind deeds often come back to the givers in fairer shapes than they go.

Louisa M. Alcott

If you haven’t any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble.

Bob Hope

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping him up.

Jesse Jackson

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.

Unknown

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

Quoted in P.S. I Love You, compiled by H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

Don’t let fear or insecurity stop you from trying new things. Believe in yourself. Do what you love. And most importantly, be kind to others, even if you don’t like them.

Stacy London

Be kind, don’t judge, and have respect for others. If we can all do this, the world would be a better place. The point is to teach this to the next generation.

Jasmine Guinness

Work hard, be kind, and amazing things will happen.

Conan O’Brien

Treat others as you wish to be treated. Don’t just be nice, but be kind to other people. That can be so rewarding.

Mary Lambert

It’s not our job to play judge and jury, to determine who is worthy of our kindness and who is not. We just need to be kind, unconditionally and without ulterior motive, even – or rather, especially – when we’d prefer not to be.

Josh Radnor

I’m doing my best to be mindful about how I’m living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.

Deirdre O’Kane

We should be inspired by people… who show that human beings can be kind, brave, generous, beautiful, strong-even in the most difficult circumstances.

Rachel Corrie

If we don’t plant the right things, we will reap the wrong things. It goes without saying. And you don’t have to be, you know, a brilliant biochemist and you don’t have to have an IQ of 150. Just common sense tells you to be kind, ninny, fool. Be kind.

Maya Angelou

Take time to be kind and to say ‘thank you.’

Zig Ziglar

Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.

Henri Frederic Amiel

Kindness Quotes From The Bible

The “Golden Rule” is one of the ultimate precepts when it comes to kindness. There are many more important quotes about this topic in the Bible, too many to list, but if you take them to heart, you are sure to benefit significantly from the ones gathered here.

And when God had me wander from my father’s household, I said to her, ‘This is how you can show your love to me: Everywhere we go, say of me, “He is my brother.”

Genesis 20:13

Now swear to me here before God that you will not deal falsely with me or my children or my descendants. Show to me and the country where you now reside as a foreigner the same kindness I have shown to you.

Genesis 21:23

Then he prayed, “LORD, God of my master Abraham, make me successful today, and show kindness to my master Abraham.

Genesis 24:12

May it be that when I say to a young woman, ‘Please let down your jar that I may have a drink,’ and she says, ‘Drink, and I’ll water your camels too’—let her be the one you have chosen for your servant Isaac. By this I will know that you have shown kindness to my master.

Genesis 24:14

But when all goes well with you, remember me and show me kindness; mention me to Pharaoh and get me out of this prison.

Genesis 40:14

Now then, please swear to me by the LORD that you will show kindness to my family, because I have shown kindness to you. Give me a sure sign

Joshua 2:12

They also failed to show any loyalty to the family of Jerub-Baal (that is, Gideon) in spite of all the good things he had done for them.

Judges 8:35

“The LORD bless him!” Naomi said to her daughter-in-law. “He has not stopped showing his kindness to the living and the dead.” She added, “That man is our close relative; he is one of our guardian-redeemers. ” 21 Then Ruth the Moabite said, “He even said to me, ‘Stay with my workers until they finish harvesting all my grain.’

Ruth 2:20-21

The LORD bless you, my daughter,” he replied. “This kindness is greater than that which you showed earlier: You have not run after the younger men, whether rich or poor.

Ruth 3:10

But show me unfailing kindness like the LORD’s kindness as long as I live, so that I may not be killed,

1 Samuel 20:14

Be kind to one another, tender-hearted, forgiving each other, just as God in Christ also has forgiven you.

Ephesians 4:32

The natives showed us extraordinary kindness; for because of the rain that had set in and because of the cold, they kindled a fire and received us all.

Acts 28:2

if we are on trial today for a benefit done to a sick man, as to how this man has been made well,

Acts 4:9

For God is not unjust so as to forget your work and the love which you have shown toward His name, in having ministered and in still ministering to the saints.

Hebrews 6:10

Or do you think lightly of the riches of His kindness and tolerance and patience, not knowing that the kindness of God leads you to repentance?

Romans 2:4

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control; against such things there is no law.

Galatians 5:22-23

But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, expecting nothing in return; and your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High; for He Himself is kind to ungrateful and evil men.

Luke 6:35

So, as those who have been chosen of God, holy and beloved, put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience

Colossians 3:12

Do not let kindness and truth leave you; Bind them around your neck, Write them on the tablet of your heart.

Proverbs 3:3

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by this some have entertained angels without knowing it.

Hebrews 13:2

Quotes About Kindness To Animals

You don’t have to be vegan to want to treat animals well. Here we have gathered some quotes about the goodness of animals as well as the important qualities they help us cultivate.

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

James Herriot

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

Anatole France

You think those dogs will not be in heaven! I tell you they will be there long before any of us.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for white, or women created for men.

Alice Walker

The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated.

Mahatma Gandhi

An animal’s eyes have the power to speak a great language.

Martin Buber

We have doomed the wolf not for what it is, but for what we deliberately and mistakenly perceive it to be –the mythologized epitome of a savage ruthless killer – which is, in reality, no more than a reflected image of ourself.

Farley Mowat

Animals are such agreeable friends―they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

George Eliot

Animals are reliable, many full of love, true in their affections, predictable in their actions, grateful and loyal. Difficult standards for people to live up to.

Alfred A. Montapert

Some people talk to animals. Not many listen though. That’s the problem.

A.A. Milne

I am sometimes asked, ‘Why do you spend so much of your time and money talking about kindness to animals when there is so much cruelty to men?’ I answer: ‘I am working at the roots.’

George Thorndike Angell

Anyone who has accustomed himself to regard the life of any living creature as worthless is in danger of arriving also at the idea of worthless human lives.

Albert Schweitzer

If a man aspires towards a righteous life, his first act of abstinence is from injury to animals.

Albert Einstein

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals’ suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don’t vote.

Paul Harvey

If you have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men.

Francis of Assisi

So often when you start talking about kindness to animals someone comments that starving and mistreated children should come first. The issue can’t be divided like that. It isn’t a choice between children and animals. It’s our duty to care for both. Kindness is the important thing. Kids and animals are our responsibility.

Minnie Pearl

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.

Abraham Lincoln

If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.

James Herriot

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Brigitte Bardot

Quotes About Repaying Kindness

Show your appreciation for someone else’s act of kindness by letting it inspire kindness in you as well. There is a whole movement dedicated to the principle of “paying it forward”. Let these quotes remind you to do your part.

If someone has hurt us, we should not react and try to hurt them in return. We should not fall to their level. Repay them with kindness and love and in time they will realize their mistake. Even if they don’t, it is fine. Let us be good!

Sham Hinduja

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strangely, I am ungrateful to these teachers.

Kahlil Gibran

Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, Make our Earth an Eden like the heaven above.

Julia F Carney

Practice random acts of kindness and senseless acts of beauty.

Anne Herbert

I expect to pass through this world but once; any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now; let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

Stephan Grellet

Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.

Mother Teresa

Spread love everywhere you go: First of all in your own house… let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God’s kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness.

Mother Teresa

Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.

Plato

Kindness is never wasted. If it has no effect on the recipient, at least it benefits the bestower.

S H Simmons

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

Anonymous

If something uncharitable is said in your presence, either speak in favor of the absent, or withdraw, or, if possible, stop the conversation.

St. John Vianney

By being grateful, a man makes himself deserving of yet another kindness.

Nigerian proverb

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

A gentle word, a kind look, a good-natured smile can work wonders and accomplish miracles.

William Hazlitt

Kind words elicit trust. Kind thoughts create depth. Kind deeds bring love.

Lao Tzu

Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.

Mencius

The best portion of a good man’s life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

William Wordsworth

Courtesies of a small and trivial character are the ones which strike deepest in the gratefully and appreciating heart.

Henry Clay

One ill behaviour may cause others to forget the kindness we’ve done.

Indonesian proverb

Quotes About The Kindness Of Strangers

These are the quotes to read if you are interested in random acts of kindness. Let them inspire you to treat every person you meet with the same consideration you would wish to be treated yourself.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

Tennessee Williams

Sometimes those who give the most are the ones with the least to spare.

Mike McIntyre

I walk on, wondering how the people who have the least to give are often the ones who give the most.

Mike McIntyre

I’ve never understood what people mean when they say they have to find themselves. We know who we are. The hard part is being that person. It’s always so much easier to be someone else.

Mike McIntyre

I’m forced to rethink my feelings toward cops. I guess they’re not all bad. After all, I did travel all the way to North Carolina before getting hassled by one.

Mike McIntyre

I’m reminded that no matter how hard we try, nothing we do is in a vacuum.

Mike McIntyre

At the start of this journey I wondered if America was too suspicious to let a stranger into its heart. But on this day I wonder if it’s the stranger who’s too suspicious to allow America into his heart.

Mike McIntyre

We stop for gas in Asheville, North Carolina. The cashier in the minimart sits in a bulletproof booth, something I haven’t seen since leaving San Francisco.

Mike McIntyre

I guess I make the most of what comes and the least of what goes.

Mike McIntyre

There was a time in this country when you were a jerk if you passed somebody in need. Now you’re a fool for helping. Gangs, drugs, murderers, rapists, thieves, carjackers. Why risk it? I Don’t Want to Get Involved has become a national motto.

Mike McIntyre

Quotes On Kindness And Giving

Generosity and kindness are inextricably linked. Giving does not have to be about material objects and money. Sometimes giving your time and attention can make the greatest difference, so everyone truly is in a position to be generous.

Smile at each other, smile at your wife, smile at your husband, smile at your children, smile at each other — it doesn’t matter who it is — and that will help you to grow up in greater love for each other.

Mother Teresa

If instead of a gem, or even a flower, we should cast the gift of a loving thought into the heart of a friend, that would be giving as the angels give.

George MacDonald

Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t have to have a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace. A soul generated by love.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

All you have shall some day be given;
Therefore give now, that the season of giving
may be yours and not your inheritors.

Kahlil Gibran

A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.

D. Elton Trueblood

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give

Kahlil Gibran

I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something; and because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do something I can do.

Edward Everett Hale

Never look down on anybody unless you’re helping them up.

The Reverend Jesse Jackson

The place to improve the world is first in one’s own heart and head and hands.

Robert M. Pirsig

You cannot do a kindness too soon because you never know how soon it will be too late.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Attitude is a choice. Happiness is a choice. Optimism is a choice. Kindness is a choice. Giving is a choice. Respect is a choice. Whatever choice you make makes you. Choose wisely.

Roy T. Bennett

No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.

Charles Dickens

It’s not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

Mother Teresa

Learn to light a candle in the darkest moments of someone’s life. Be the light that helps others see; it is what gives life its deepest significance.

Roy T. Bennett

Help others without any reason and give without the expectation of receiving anything in return.

Roy T. Bennett

We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.

Winston S. Churchill

The most truly generous persons are those who give silently without hope of praise or reward.

Carol Ryrie Brink

Always have a willing hand to help someone, you might be the only one that does.

Roy T. Bennett

Happiness doesn’t result from what we get, but from what we give.

Ben Carson

Good works is giving to the poor and the helpless, but divine works is showing them their worth to the One who matters.

Criss Jami