Samuel Johnson Quotes

There is no substitute for kindness in the home. This lesson I learned from my father. He always listened to my mother's advice. As a result, he was a better, wiser, and kinder man.

I feel really privileged to have gracious and merciless people with a lot of perspective and patience in my life.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.

I can have peace of mind only when I forgive rather than judge.

Ultimately, knowing God and reading the Word, it helps with patience with people, understanding, empathy and sympathy that they might not have that I have. If God gave it to me, why not exercise it?

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Compromise and tolerance are magic words. It took me 40 years to become philosophical.

I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

Be patient and understanding. Life is too short to be vengeful or malicious.

A physician is not angry at the intemperance of a mad patient, nor does he take it ill to be railed at by a man in fever. Just so should a wise man treat all mankind, as a physician does his patient, and look upon them only as sick and extravagant.

You have perspective when little people come into your life. You take the best things you have and let them overshadow your disappointment.

I have to ask Allah's forgiveness and not get angry, because they come to me out of love, and it's not fitting that I should turn to them in hatred.

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

We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

We need to be a bit kinder and more aware of what is really important.

I don't waste time despising people.

It's not all fine and dandy, but a smile can go a long way. Show some love, be patient, and this world will be a much better place.

I believe forgiveness is the best form of love in any relationship. It takes a strong person to say they're sorry and an even stronger person to forgive.

My father always tells me to be forgiving, as it purges you of pent-up negativity. I harbour no bitterness and malice towards anyone.

Bless more; blame less.

My illness has taught me something about the nature of humanity, love, brotherhood and relationships that I never understood, and probably never would have. So, from that standpoint, there is some truth and good in everything.

The first thing a kindness deserves is acceptance, the second, transmission.

I cannot hold a grudge against Mariah Carey. What people don't understand is that I've looked up to her for so many years.

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