You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are some people who live in a dream world, and there are some who face reality, and then there are those who turn one into the other.
—Douglas Everett

A good character is the best tombstone. Carve your name on hearts not marble.
—Charles H. Spurgeon

A handful of pine seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of a forest. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seeds on high.
—Fiona MacLeod

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
—Dalai Lama

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 your life you will have been all of these.
—George Washington Carver

Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment or the smallest at of caring, all of which has the potential to turn a life around.
—Leo Buscaglia

Along the way of our service to others and community, we learn that a very large side benefit is an enormous sense of personal satisfaction, personal purpose and personal worth.
—Brian O’Connell

Giving starts with loving. Only as we are able to love others do we learn to give.
—Anonymous

Philanthropy is one of the most hopeful characteristics of our time.
—Mary Livermore

Occasionally in life there are moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meaning can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.
—Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

He who has health has hope, he who has hope has everything.
—Proverb

It is not our resources that limit our decisions, it is our decisions that limit our resources.
—U. Thant

If you think you’re too small to have an impact, try going to bed with a mosquito.
—Anita Roddick

You can’t live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
—John Wooden

All you shall have some day be given; therefore give now that the season of giving may be yours and not your inheritor’s.
—Kahlil Gibran

Progress is not automatic. The world grows better because people wish that it should and take the steps to make it better.
—Jane Addams

Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
—Mark Twain

The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit.
—Nelson Henderson

I expect to pass through this life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show or any good thing I can do, let me do it now as I shall not pass this way again.
—William Penn

Act as if what you do makes a difference. Because it does.
—William James

Every action in our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
—Edwin Hubbel Chapin

Imagine a world where people give of themselves simply because they want to. Now, instead of imaging this kind of world, do your part in making it happen. Give back to the world that gives so much to you.
—Bill Daniels

Philanthropy lies at the heart of human kindness.
—J. Patrick Ryan

Gratitude can transform common days into thanksgiving, turn routine into joy and change ordinary opportunities into blessings.
—William Arthur Ward