Letitia Baldrige Quotes

As youngsters, my mother taught her children that while we might not be the smartest people around, we could be courteous, polite and considerate of others.

I try to be kind to people, to treat them with respect. And I'm proud of that.

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

There is no respect for others without humility in one's self.

Teach love, generosity, good manners and some of that will drift from the classroom to the home and who knows, the children will be educating the parents.

Better to be a loving person without knowing how you got there, than an expert no one can stand to be around.

When I pontificate, it sounds so, you know, Oh, well, she's preaching. I'm not preaching, but I think maybe I learned it from my animal friends. Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself. I think that keeps you feeling young. I really do.

I try to pride myself on being nice to everyone and not letting egos get in the way.

You know what takes effort? Being kind. Being patient. Being respectful.

Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

Never lose sight of the fact that the most important yardstick of your success will be how you treat other people - your family, friends, and coworkers, and even strangers you meet along the way.

It requires more strength to be gentle, so it's the everyday encounters of life that I think we've prepared children for and prepared them to be good to other people and to consider other people.

Let our children be taught love love love.

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

He who aspires to paradise should learn to deal with people with kindness.

Like Christ said, love thee one another. I learned to do that, and I learned to respect and be appreciative and thankful for what I had.

The final test of a gentleman is his respect for those who can be of no possible service to him.

My favorite parable for living a positive and influential life is the Golden Rule: 'Do unto others what you would have them do unto you.'

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.

My religious philosophy is kindness. Try to be kind. That's something worth achieving.

Without humility there can be no humanity.

A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them.

The central tenet of Christianity as it has come down to us is that we are to reach out when our instinct is to pull inward; to give when we want to take; to love when we are inclined to hate; to include when are tempted to exclude.

Being kind is the most important thing I've ever been taught. That's what my parents always told me - more important than ambition or success is being kind to people. The cornerstone of my life. What I aspire to is to be kind.

Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.