Saint Bernard Quotes

Goodwill can be indicated in various ways. I raised that particular example because at that time I was in charge. Today, I'm not in a position to present other possibilities.

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.

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

On the way to work good-hearted young girls sometimes offer me their seats, which I accept and bless them in return, a transaction satisfying to all concerned.

The true greatness of a person, in my view, is evident in the way he or she treats those with whom courtesy and kindness are not required.

I remember once about 10 years ago when I was injured, having to rehearse, and I was walking with a stick. And I was terribly touched by the amount of people willing to give up a seat. You often hear that London is so brusque and rude, but the grace with which people negotiate incredibly crowded spaces is something rather nice.

In my book, all manners are is thinking of somebody else.

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.

Kindness is always fashionable, and always welcome.

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

I'm not always so nice.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.

If you are good to this one and that one, this one and that one will say that you are good. If you are good to everyone, no one will say that you are good.

It's nice when people approach you to help.

Kindness is something that I feel is leaving us a little bit - people are getting more self-involved.

I quite like it when I'm on the Tube and people offer me their seat. Sometimes I take it. The other day I was offered a seat by a pregnant lady. I thought, 'That's going a bit far.'

Well, as I was saying... everyone's so nice to me, usually.

It is nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.

I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

I would never do anything to hurt anybody, especially if they're helping me. I'm not that kind of person.

One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

No one pays me to be nice.