Henry Ward Beecher Quotes

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

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Kindness, tolerance, integrity, modesty, generosity - these are attributes that events permit us. They are our holiday moods, and we are as proud of them as of the fine clothes we have hung away to wear on occasions.

Kindness is loving people more than they deserve.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

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

One who is kind is sympathetic and gentle with others. He is considerate of others' feelings and courteous in his behavior. He has a helpful nature. Kindness pardons others' weaknesses and faults. Kindness is extended to all - to the aged and the young, to animals, to those low of station as well as the high.

The one who will be found in trial capable of great acts of love is ever the one who is always doing considerate small ones.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Pity the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue.

There's nothing so kingly as kindness, and nothing so royal as truth.

Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.

An inexhaustible good nature is one of the most precious gifts of heaven, spreading itself like oil over the troubled sea of thought, and keeping the mind smooth and equable in the roughest weather.

If you are fortunate in life, age and knowledge breed compassion.

My mother taught me to be honest, to be selfless, and to touch people in a positive way.

Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.

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