Marshall Field Quotes

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

We'd all like a reputation for generosity, and we'd all like to buy it cheap.

It is the task of a good man to help those in misfortune.

People were incredibly kind to our family and went out of their way to help.

The trouble when you die is that everyone says you were nice. I would like to be thought of as genuinely nice. I would like there to be people who can honestly say, 'Len! Oh yeah, there was more good than bad in him.'

If you have an impulse to kindness, act on it.

Love has an enormous number of connotations, and if somebody is a person who does kind acts as a way of life, if they are generally disposed to being caring and loving and doing things for other people, then kindness is a much stronger word than we make it out to be.

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

If I'm doing something its coming from a kind heart.

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

Vince was so great at the 'Mr. McMahon' character that some people think he wouldn't want to help people in real life, and that's just not true.

Philanthropy is never understood by those who don't have it in their own hearts.

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

The human capacity for compassion is not a reflex that is triggered automatically by the presence of another living thing.

Any beast can cry over the misfortunes of its own child. It takes a mensch to weep for others' children.

I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: 'What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.'

Think how many blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretions of other people.

I wanna be a nice guy.

A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.

Every day, nay every moment, try to do some good deed.

It is sometimes difficult to view compassion and loving kindness as the strengths they are.

One of the things I've never been accused of is not caring about people.

Welcome to the Salvation Army. I've never been associated with an offense so nice about giving the ball away.

Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.

To pity distress is but human; to relieve it is Godlike.