Good words cool more than cold water.
Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
A compliment is verbal sunshine.
A couple of kind words can not only make a person's day, but earn you a friend and supporter for life. For the rest of the week, whenever you see someone you want to judge negatively, pay them a compliment instead. See what happens.
A little flattery makes people feel good about themselves. When you notice someone looking great, give them a compliment.
There is a sad tendency in our world today for persons to cut one another down. Did you ever realize that it does not take very much in the way of brainpower to make remarks that may wound another? Try the opposite of that. Try handing out compliments.
I much prefer a compliment, even if insincere, to sincere criticism.
Today, use your words to lift up and bless the people around you.
A Christian reveals true humility by showing the gentleness of Christ, by being always ready to help others, by speaking kind words and performing unselfish acts, which elevate and ennoble the most sacred message that has come to our world.
Thank you for all your good and beautiful work.
Be careful, think about the effect of what you say. Your words should be constructive, bring people together, not pull them apart.
Don't be afraid of showing affection. Be warm and tender, thoughtful and affectionate. Men are more helped by sympathy than by service. Love is more than money, and a kind word will give more pleasure than a present.
I will here say to parents, that kind words and loving actions towards children, will subdue their uneducated nature a great deal better than the rod, or, in other words, than physical punishment.
Kind words not only lift our spirits in the moment they are given, but they can linger with us over the years.
Speak me fair in death.
Concerning the dead nothing but good shall be spoken. [Lat., De mortuis nil nisi bonum.]
Pleasant speech yields joy to all, and observing this, is there any need for unpleasant speech?
Sometimes all it takes is a kind word of encouragement to get your heroes back on the right path.
It is the history of our kindnesses that alone make this world tolerable. If it were not for that, for the effect of kind words, kind looks, kind letters . . . I should be inclined to think our life a practical jest in the worst possible spirit.
Happiness is a great power of holiness. Thus, kind words, by their power of producing happiness, have also a power of producing holiness, and so of winning men to God.
We will never regret the kind words spoken or the affection shown. Rather, our regrets will come if such things are omitted from our relationships with those who mean the most to us.
We're a sentimental people. We like a few kind words better than millions of dollars given in a humiliating way.
If you think well of others, you will also speak well of others and to others. From the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks. If your heart is full of love, you will speak of love.
Please take the time to leave something kind, or don't leave it at all. You know? That's an option, also.
