Alphonse de Lamartine Quotes

It is higher and nobler to be kind.

Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

Kindness is the essence of greatness.

A good deed is a good deed.

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

As long as I'm a good person and I do things from the heart, that's all that matters.

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

I believe there's a place for goodness and love in everything I do.

Your greatness is measured by your kindness.

Kindness nobler ever than revenge.

Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity.

I think probably kindness is my number one attribute in a human being. I'll put it before any of the things like courage or bravery or generosity or anything else.

Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. Thus to relieve the wretched was his pride, And even his failings lean'd to Virtue's side.

Kindness comes with no price.

What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

In nothing do humans approach so nearly to the gods as doing good to others.

Kindness is our religion.

On the whole, the world was friendly. It chiefly depended on whether one were good or not.

Be good to others, that will protect you against evil.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

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

I pride myself on being kind.

Compassion is so pure, I don't think there is any way to taint it.