Jane Porter Quotes

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

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

By three things the wise person may be known. What three? He sees a shortcoming as it is. When he sees it, he tries to correct it. And when another acknowledges a shortcoming, the wise one forgives it as he should.

Nothing will make us so charitable and tender to the faults of others, as, by self-examination, thoroughly to know our own.

Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves.

So long as we are full of self we are shocked at the faults of others. Let us think often of our own sin, and we shall be lenient to the sins of others.

Humility is always a good thing. It's always a good thing to be humbled by circumstances so you can then come from a sincere place to try to deal with them.

Am I old-fashioned? I think I might be. I am a lucky woman, because I was born with a priceless gift... the ability to laugh at the misfortunes of others.

Compassion is so pure, I don't think there is any way to taint it.

The folly which we might have ourselves committed is the one which we are least ready to pardon in another.

Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge.

I'll tell you what I did need to learn was tolerance, and I think I've been actually given a daily opportunity to practice that, and it's - it's - and I know that that sounds almost like a backhanded slap, and it is in a way because I haven't been successful at it every day.

Lord, where we are wrong, make us willing to change; where we are right, make us easy to live with.

Being humble matters.

Work at being a humble person.

I am human and I make mistakes.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.

The three hardest tasks in the world are neither physical feats nor intellectual achievements, but moral acts: to return love for hate, to include the excluded, and to say, 'I was wrong'.

The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

Compassion is not a popular virtue.

I always say that kindness is the greatest beauty that you can have.

It is very east to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more grit and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.

We do not kick a man in the stomach after we’ve licked him.