Abraham Lincoln:
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Ann Radcliffe:
Happiness arises in a state of peace, not of tumult.
Aristotle:
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Bertrand Wilbertforce:
Always direct your thoughts to those truths that will give you confidence, hope, joy, love, thanksgiving, and turn away your mind from those that inspire you with fear, sadness, depression.
Anthony J. D'Angelo:
Become addicted to constant and never ending self improvement.
Dale Carnegie:
Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves
Aldous Huxley:
There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Henry Ward Beecher:
Troubles are often the tools by which God fashions us for better things
Brian Tracy:
If you wish to achieve worthwhile things in your personal and career life, you must become a worthwhile person in your own self-development.
Helen Keller:
Believe, when you are most unhappy, that there is something for you to do in the world. So long as you can sweeten another's pain, life is not in vain.
Aeschylus:
God loves to help him who strives to help himself.
Leo Buscaglia:
Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.
Confucius:
To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect virtue... gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness.
The Dalai Lama:
When we feel love and kindness toward others, it not only makes others feel loved and cared for, but it helps us also to develop inner happiness and peace.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox:
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Henry James:
Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind.
Edward Lytton:
A good heart is better than all the heads in the world.
William Wordsworth:
The best portion of a good man's life: his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
Stephen Jay Gould:
The center of human nature is rooted in ten thousand ordinary acts of kindness that define our days.
Samuel Smiles:
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
Albert Einstein:
The ideas that have lighted my way have been kindness, beauty and truth.
The Reverend Jesse Jackson, American Civil Rights Leader:
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping them up.
Aesop:
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
Emma Goldman:
No one has yet realized the wealth of sympathy, the kindness and generosity hidden in the soul of a child. The effort of every true education should be to unlock that treasure.
George Washington Carver:
How far you go in life depends on you being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and the strong. Because someday in life, you will have been all of these.
Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.
William Penn:
If there is any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not deter or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again.
Buddhist saying:
If you light a lamp for somebody, it will also brighten your path.
Whoopi Goldberg:
When you are kind to someone in trouble, you hope they'll remember and be kind to someone else. And it'll become like wildfire.
Seneca:
Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness.
Kahlil Gibran:
You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.
Caroline Kennedy Schlossburg:
As much as we need a prosperous economy, we also need a prosperity of kindness and decency.
Albert Schweitzer:
At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have lighted the flame within us.
Plato:
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle.
Elizabeth Bibesco:
Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.
Arabian proverb:
Blessed is he who speaks a kindness; thrice blessed is he who repeats it.
The Talmud:
Deeds of kindness are equal in weight to all the commandments.
John Wesley:
Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In all the places you can. At all the times you can. To all the people you can. As long as ever you can.
Lao Tzu:
Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
Emanuel Swedenborg:
Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.
Henri-Frederic Amiel:
Kindness is gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us.
Samuel Johnson:
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.
C. Neil Strait:
Kindness is more than deeds. It is an attitude, an expression, a look, a touch. It is anything that lifts another person.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe:
Kindness is the golden chain by which society is bound together.
Paramahansa Yogananda:
Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations.
Mother Teresa:
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile.
The Bible, 1 John 3:18 NRSV:
Let us love, not in word or speech, but in truth and action
Anthony Robbins:
It's your unlimited power to care and to love that can make the biggest difference in the quality of your life.
Mother Teresa:
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless.
Blaise Pascal:
Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.
John Hall:
Kind words, kind looks, kind acts and warm handshakes, these are means of grace when men in trouble are fighting their unseen battles.
Eric Hoffer:
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind.
Sophocles:
Kindness gives birth to kindness.
Anthony (Tony) Robbins:
I've come to believe that all my past failure and frustration were actually laying the foundation for the understandings that have created the new level of living I now enjoy.
Brian Tracy:
Most people achieved their greatest success one step beyond what looked like their greatest failure
Mary Pickford:
If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down but the staying down.
Confucius:
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Robert Silliman Hillyer:
Perfectionism is a dangerous state of mind in an imperfect world. The best way is to forget doubts and set about the task in hand... If you are doing your best, you will not have time to worry about failure.
Louis E. Boone:
Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
Robert C. Gallagher:
Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward.
Samuel Beckett:
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.
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