You give before you get.

Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work.

You should never view your challenges as a disadvantage. Instead, it’s important for you to understand that your experience facing and overcoming adversity is actually one of your biggest advantages.

No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he’d only had good intentions; he had money as well.

Do something wonderful, people may imitate it.

The exercise of benevolence is joy to loving hearts: the more pain it costs, the more joy it is. Kind actions make us happy, and in such joy we find communion with the great heart of Jesus.

Friends… they cherish one another’s hopes. They are kind to one another’s dreams.

I bet taxpayers remember providing more than $812 billion to Citigroup and Bank of America, two Wall Street banks, in 2009 to bail them out during the 2008 financial crisis. Taxpayers remember that generosity; big banks evidently don’t.

Be amusing: never tell unkind stories; above all, never tell long ones.

In assisting his ‚neighbour‘ every day to the best of his ability, and keeping truth, honesty, and kindness perpetually before him, the Boy Scout, with as little formality as possible, is pleasing God.

The civility which money will purchase, is rarely extended to those who have none.

A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money; and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

The Lord commonly gives riches to foolish people, to whom he gives nothing else.

Give to everyone who begs from you; and of him who takes away your goods do not ask them again. And as you wish that men would do to you, do so to them.

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

Kind words do not cost much. Yet they accomplish much.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

If selfishness is the key to being miserable, then selflessness must be the key to being happy!

If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.

Loving people live in a loving world. Hostile people live in a hostile world. Same world.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

You make more money if you’re generous.

When you are laboring for others let it be with the same zeal as if it were for yourself.

We can all be successful and make money, but when we die, that ends. But when you are significant is when you help other people be successful. That lasts many a lifetime.

Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.

If I seem to boast more than is becoming, my excuse is that I brag for humanity rather than for myself.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Love does not dominate; it cultivates.

A saint serves others, knowing that the more one serves, the greater the opportunity for the Spirit to sanctify and purify.

Our greatness has always come from people who expect nothing and take nothing for granted – folks who work hard for what they have, then reach back and help others after them.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

None of us has any personal interest above the interests of the country. Our country is more important than our careers.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Everything negative – pressure, challenges – is all an opportunity for me to rise.

If you raise your children to feel that they can accomplish any goal or task they decide upon, you will have succeeded as a parent and you will have given your children the greatest of all blessings.

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Serious illness doesn’t bother me for long because I am too inhospitable a host.

If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain.

The greatest gift that you can give to others is the gift of unconditional love and acceptance.

It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit.

We are rich only through what we give, and poor only through what we refuse.

Love grows by giving. The love we give away is the only love we keep. The only way to retain love is to give it away.

We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.

You know, T can stand for anything. T stand for working hard. T stand for loving thy neighbor. T stand for feeding the hungry. T stand for just working, working, working, being happy on the set, you know, lifting everybody’s spirits. T stands for just a nice guy.

Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness.

Fortunately, we have help from the media. I have to say this: I’m very grateful for the support and kindness that we’ve gotten. People have respected their privacy and in that way, I think, you know, no matter what people may feel about my husband’s policies or what have you, they care about children and that’s been good to see.

Early on, I was so impressed with Charles Dickens. I grew up in the South, in a little village in Arkansas, and the whites in my town were really mean, and rude. Dickens, I could tell, wouldn’t be a man who would curse me out and talk to me rudely.

You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.

We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You’re always helping people.

I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.

The only big things I’ve purchased are my dad’s heart valve and a Rolls-Royce for my parents, for their anniversary. And that was only because my dad had a Lady Gaga license plate on our old car and it was making me crazy because he was getting followed everywhere, so I bought him a new car.

A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.

People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.

I never hold a grudge.

Like every parent, when you start your family, your life completely changes. And you completely live for someone else. I find that the most extraordinary thing. Your life is handed over to someone else. From that moment on, they come first in every choice you make. It’s the most wonderful thing.

Sexism is part of every industry and must be addressed. But I try not to focus on the negative but the positive side of what we can bring.