Learn Through Quotations

“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden, fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends who rejoice with us in our sunshine desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.”

“If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love.”

“By the accident of fortune a man may rule the world for a time, but by virtue of love and kindness he may rule the world forever.”

“What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.”

“No man stands so straight as when he stoops to help a boy.”

“Have a heart that never hardens, a temper that never tires, a touch that never hurts.”

“Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.”

“It isn't kind to cultivate a friendship just so one will have an audience.”

“A healthy community is one in which the elderly protect, care for, love and assist the younger ones to provide continuity and hope.”

“Doing good to others is not a duty. It is a joy, for it increases your own health and happiness.”

“Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.”

“My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart - a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation. ”

“Flowers are like human beings... they thrive on a little kindness.”

“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor. ”

“Never point a finger where you never lent a hand.”

“Be to her virtues very kind, Be to her faults a little blind.”

“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh be swift to love, make haste to be kind.”

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these.”

“Happiness comes when your work and words are of benefit to yourself and others.”

“The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or smile, a kind look, a heartfelt compliment, and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.”

“Good-looking girls break hearts, and goodhearted girls mend them.”

“Who ran to help me when I fell, And would some pretty story tell, Or kiss the place to make it well? My mother.”

“Nothing is as difficult as to achieve results in this world if one is filled full of great tolerances and the milk of human kindness. The person who achieves must generally be a one-idea individual, concentrated entirely on that one idea, and ruthless in his aspect toward other men and other ideas.”

“Experience praises the most happy is the one who made the most people happy.”