Best kindness & sacrifice Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Kindness isn't sacrifice so much as it is being considerate for the feelings of others, sharing happiness, the unselfish thought, the spontaneous and friendly act, forgetfulness of our own present interests.”

Feelings Interest Kindness Sacrifice Friendly Spontaneous Forgetfulness Unselfish Considerate Be Considerate Sharing Happiness

Author:Carl Holmes

“Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.”

Source: Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects

“[...] it is right to be kind and even sacrifice ourselves to people who need kindness and lie in our way - otherwise, besides failing to help them, we run into the aridity of self-development. To seek for recipients of one's goodness, to play the Potted Jesus leads to the contray the Christian danger.”

People Way Needs Kind Self Play Helping Running Christian Lying Jesus Kindness Failing Sacrifice Danger Development Goodness Be Kind Self Development

Book:Commonplace Book

Source: Commonplace Book

“The women of the poorer classes make sacrifices, and run risks, and bear privations, and exercise patience and kindness to a degree that the world never knows of, and would scarcely believe even if it did know.”

Ifs Knows World Believe Running Class Kindness Risk Sacrifice Bears Exercise Degrees Endurance

Book:Duty

Source: Duty

“In the intercourse of social life, it is by little acts of watchful kindness recurring daily and hourly,--and opportunities of doing kindnesses if sought for are forever starting up,--it is by words, by tones, by gestures, by looks, that affection is won and preserved. He who neglects these trifles yet boasts that, whenever a great sacrifice is called for, he shall be ready to make it, will rarely be loved. The likelihood is, he will not make it; and if he does, it will be much rather for his own sake than for his neighbor's.”

“Altruism does not mean mere kindness or generosity, but the sacrifice of the best among men to the worst, the sacrifice of virtues to flaws, of ability to incompetence, of progress to stagnation-and the subordinating of all life and of all values to the claims of anyone's suffering.”

Men Mean Doe Suffering Values Ability Kindness Virtue Progress Sacrifice Worst Claims Mere Generosity Flaws Altruism Incompetence Stagnation

Book:Ayn Rand Reader

Source: Ayn Rand Reader

“You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.”

Source: The Greatest Coach Ever: Timeless Wisdom and Insights of John Wooden

“The real trouble is that 'kindness' is a quality fatally easy to attribute to ourselves on quite inadequate grounds. Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment. Thus a man easily comes to console himself for all his other vices by a conviction that 'his heart's in the right place' and 'he wouldn't hurt a fly,' though in fact he has never made the slightest sacrifice for a fellow creature. We think we are kind when we are only happy: it is not so easy, on the same grounds, to imagine oneself temperate, chaste, or humble.”

“The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit.”

“To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness.”

Humans Facts Compassion Kindness Sacrifice Future Cruelty Hopeful Human History My Future Bad Times Hope For The Future

Book:You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

Source: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times

“That crafty kindness which inveigles me to sacrifice principle is the serpent in the grass - deadly to the incautious wayfarer.”

Principles Kindness Sacrifice Grass Serpent Crafty

Book:Baptismal Regeneration

Source: Baptismal Regeneration

“To be hopeful in bad times is based on the fact that human history is not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act. And if we do act, in however small a way, we don't have to wait for some grand Utopian future. The future is an infinite succession of presents, and to live now as we think human beings should live, in defiance of all that is bad around us, is itself a marvelous victory.”

“Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.”

Source: The Collected Works of Sir Humphry Davy, Bart. ...: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy, by his brother, John Davy

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