Arthur Helps Quotes

Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.

No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

Good actions give strength to ourselves and inspire good actions in others.

Our life ripples out, and it has influence. That's why it's important that we're at our best and that we're influencing others for the good.

We shall never know all the good that a simple smile can do.

Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years.

I felt that I could look back on my life and think about lots of folks that I helped become better folks. And I've tried to be as good a man as I could be.

I want to do more good work. That's very much my parents' influence in me.

Each one of us is bound to make the little circle in which he or she lives better and happier. Bound to see that out of that small circle the widest good may flow.

I'm always trying to remember that kindness goes a long, long way. I think that's something that people will definitely take out of this film as well.

Live in such a way that the world will be glad you did.

Blessing is the projection of good into the life of another.

A good word costs as little as a bad one, and is worth more.

Everywhere we go, Nancy makes the world a little better.

Every time you do a good deed you shine the light a little farther into the dark. And the thing is, when you're gone that light is going to keep shining on, pushing the shadows back.

I think kindness is a sort of gateway virtue - having that simple aspiration can get you into deep water very quickly - in a good way.

I always strive, when I can, to spread sweetness and light. There have been several complaints about it.

It is not possible to know how far the influence of any amiable, honest-hearted duty-doing man flies out into the world, but it is very possible to know how it has touched one's self in going by.

And therefore, Uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that [Christmas] has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!

The two most powerful things in existence: a kind word and a thoughtful gesture.

You never know how much good you do.

I am inspired when I see goodness in other people.

The person who sows a single beautiful thought in the mind of another, renders the world a greater service than that rendered by all the faultfinders combined.

Do all the good you can, by all the means you can.