Kindness Quotes
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Something that has always puzzled me all my life is why, when I am in special need of help, the good deed is usually done by somebody on whom I have no claim. (Quote by - William Feather)
If you step on people in this life, you're going to come back as a cockroach. (Quote by - Willie Davis)
If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be. (Quote by - W.S. Merwin)
Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity and kindness. (Quote by - Confucius)
Choose being kind over being right, and you'll be right every time. (Quote by - Richard Carlson)
Kind words can be short and easy to speak, but their echoes are truly endless. -Mother Theresa. (Quote by - Mother Theresa)
On that best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you. (Quote by - John Wooden)
Be thoughtful of others and you will not be shy, for they are incompatible addictions. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Always be a little kinder than necessary. (Quote by - James M. Barrie)
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground; but a kind word is never thrown away. (Quote by - Sir Arthur Helps)
The beginning and end of Torah is performing acts of loving kindness. (Quote by - Talmud)
Make it a practice to judge persons and things in the most favorable light at all times and under all circumstances. (Quote by - Saint Vincent de Paul)
We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
The true meaning of life is to plant trees, under whose shade you do not expect to sit. (Quote by - Nelson Henderson)
The only people with whom you should try to get even are those who have helped you. (Quote by - John E. Southard)
Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick. (Quote by - Lin Yutang)
Kindness can become its own motive. We are made kind by being kind. (Quote by - Eric Hoffer)
To err on the side of kindness is seldom an error. (Quote by - Liz Armbruster)
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak. (Quote by - Epictetus)
I believe that man will not merely endure; he will prevail. He is immortal, not because he alone among the creatures has an inexhaustible voice, but because he has a soul, a spirit capable of kindness and compassion. (Quote by - William Faulkner 1897)
Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The best portion of a good man's life - his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. (Quote by - William Wordsworth 1770)
Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Remember that everyone you meet is afraid of something, loves something and has lost something. (Quote by - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
A kind word is like a Spring day. (Quote by - Russian Proverb)
That best portion of a good man's life, His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love. (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Knowledge, without common sense," says Lee, is "folly; without method, it is waste; without kindness, it is fanaticism; without religion, it is death." But with common sense, it is wisdom with method, it is power; with clarity, it is beneficence; with religion, it is virtue, and life, and peace. (Quote by - Austin Farrar)
I believe in courtesy, in kindness, in generosity, in good cheer, in friendship and in honest competition. I believe there is something doing somewhere, for every man ready to do it. I believe I'm ready, RIGHT NOW. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again. (Quote by - Og Mandino)
It is difficult to tell how much men's minds are conciliated by a kind manner and gentle speech. (Quote by - Marcus Tullius Cicero)
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers. (Quote by - Gerald Massey)
Have you the heart? When your head did but ache, I knit my handkercher about your brows-- The best I had, a princess wrought it me-- And I did never ask it you again; And with my hand at midnight held your head, And like the watchful minutes to the hour, Still and anon cheered up the heavy time, Saying, 'What lack you?' and 'Where lies your grief?' (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
And Heaven, that every virtue bears in mind, E'en to the ashes of the just is kind. (Quote by - Homer)
A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble. (Quote by - Charles H. Spurgeon)
The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines. (Quote by - Charles Kuralt)
It is kindness immediately to refuse what you intend to deny. (Quote by - Syrus)
Sometimes someone says something really small, and it just fits right into this empty place in your heart. (Quote by - From the television show My So-Called Life)
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. (Quote by - Plato)
During my second year of nursing school our professor gave us a quiz. I breezed through the questions until I read the last one: "What is the first name of the woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was a joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper, leaving the last question blank. Before the class ended, one student asked if the last question would count toward our grade. "Absolutely," the professor said. "In your careers, you will meet many people. All are significant. They deserve your attention and care, even if all you do is smile and say hello." I've never forgotten that lesson. I also learned her name was Dorothy. (Quote by - Joann C. Jones)
I have learned silence from the talkative; tolerance from the intolerant and kindness from the unkind. I should not be ungrateful to those teachers. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran 1883)
The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. (Quote by - Abraham Joshua Heschel)
Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside. (Quote by - Quoted in Believe: A Christmas Treasury by Mary Engelbreit)
Today, give a stranger one of your smiles. It might be the only sunshine he sees all day. (Quote by - H. Jackson Brown, Jr.)
The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love. (Quote by - Bertrand Russell)
To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness. (Quote by - Confucius)
The more sympathy you give, the less you need. (Quote by - Malcolm S. Forbes)
Wherever there is a human being there is an opportunity for a kindness. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
Kindness is a language which the blind can see and the deaf can hear. (Quote by - Anon)
Real charity doesn't care if it's tax-deductible or not. (Quote by - Dan Bennett)
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. (Quote by - Henry Boye)
There is no greater loan than a sympathetic ear. (Quote by - Frank Tyger)
A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person. (Quote by - Dave Barry)
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always specific, concrete, individualized, unique. (Quote by - John Dewey)
No act of kindness is wasted. (Quote by - William Purkey)
Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. (Quote by - Confucius )
In about the same degree as you are helpful, you will be happy. (Quote by - Karl Reiland)
Life is not made up of great sacrifices and duties but of little things: in which smiles and kindness given habitually are what win and preserve the heart and secure comfort. (Quote by - Sir Humphry Davy 1778)
The drying up a single tear has more of honest fame than shedding seas of gore. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
There are no traffic jams when you go the extra mile. (Quote by - Dr. Kenneth McFarland)
A bit of fragrance always clings to the hand that gives roses. (Quote by - Chinese Proverb)
The heart benevolent and kind the most resembles God. (Quote by - Rober Burns)
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. (Quote by - Aesop)
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Getting money is not all a man's business: to cultivate kindness is a valuable part of the business of life. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. (Quote by - H.L. Mencken)
It is one of the beautiful compensations of life that no man can sincerely try to be kind to another, without helping himself. (Quote by - Bailey)
If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf. (Quote by - Thomas Fuller)
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find out. (Quote by - Frank A. Clark)
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. (Quote by - Lao-Tze 604BC)
The government in which I believe is that which is based on mere moral sanction ... the real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or political reform can fill them. (Quote by - Leo Tolstoy 1828)
The highest wisdom is loving kindness. (Quote by - Talmud)
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree. (Quote by - Marian Wright Edelman)
Both man and womankind belie their nature When they are not kind. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
T'was a thief said the last kind word to Christ. Christ took the kindness and forgave the theft. (Quote by - Robert Browning)
My feeling is that there is nothing in life but refraining from hurting others, and comforting those who are sad. (Quote by - Olive Schreiner)
Love thy neighbor, and if it requires that you bend your understanding of the truth, the Truth will understand. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. (Quote by - Albert Schweitzer)
Just for today, I will let go of anger. Just for today, I will let go of worry. Today, I will count my many blessings. Today, I will do my work honestly. Today, I will be kind to every living creature. (Quote by - Mikao Usui)
If you live for love you spread kindness and compassion everywhere you go. When you stop believing in your heart you are but a sterile vessel wandering in the wilderness. (Quote by - Francis Hegmeyer)
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than that Mummy should carry them in her heart. (Quote by - Anne Frank)
The only religion is kindness. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer. (Quote by - Mignon McLaughlin)
A little more than kin, and less than kind! (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
One can pay back the loan of gold, but one dies forever in debt to those who are kind. (Quote by - Malayan Proberb)
Kindness which is bestowed on the good is never lost. (Quote by - Plato)
Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
Have you had a kindness shown? Pass it on; 'Twas not given for thee alone, Pass it on; Let it travel down the years, Let it wipe another's tears, 'Till in Heaven the deed appears-- Pass it on. (Quote by - Rev. Henry Burton)
I would help others out of a fellow-feeling. (Quote by - Robert Burton)
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn. (Quote by - Philip James Bailey)
The greater the kindred is, the lesse the kindnesse must bee. (Quote by - John Lyly )
I expect to pass through life but once. If therefore, there be any kindness I can show, or any good thing I can do to any fellow being, let me do it now, and not defer or neglect it, as I shall not pass this way again. (Quote by - William Penn)
If you haven't any charity in your heart, you have the worst kind of heart trouble. (Quote by - Bob Hope)
Compassion is an alternate perception (Quote by - M.C. Richards)
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. (Quote by - Booker T. Washington)
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness. (Quote by - George Sand)
Just because an animal is large, it doesn't mean he doesn't want kindness; however big Tigger seems to be, remember that he wants as much kindness as Roo. (Quote by - A A Milne)
It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. (Quote by - Baha'u'llah)
A fellow who does things that count, doesn't usually stop to count them. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
What this world needs is a new kind of army - the army of the kind. (Quote by - Cleveland Amory)
I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. (Quote by - Kahlil Gibran)
Those who bring sunshine to the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves. (Quote by - James Matthew Barrie)
I've never known any human being, high or humble, who ever regretted, when nearing life's end, having done kindly deeds. But I have known more than one millionaire who became haunted by the realization that they had led selfish lives. (Quote by - B. C. Forbes)
Kindness makes the difference between passion and caring. Kindness is tenderness, kindness is love, perhaps greater than love .... kindness is goodwill, kindness says "I want you to be happy." Kindness comes very close to the benevolence of God. (Quote by - Randolph Ray)
He who confers a favor should at once forget it, if he is not to show a sordid ungenerous spirit. To remind a man of a kindness conferred and to talk of it, is little different from reproach. (Quote by - Demosthenes)
If what must be given is given willingly the kindness is doubled. (Quote by - Syrus)
Little deeds of kindness, little words of love, help to make earth happy, like heaven above. (Quote by - Julia Fletcher Carney)
The Romans assisted their allies and friends, and acquired friendships by giving rather than receiving kindness. (Quote by - Caius Sallustius Crispus)
I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. (Quote by - Rudyard Kipling)
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. (Quote by - Theodore Isaac Rubin)
Their cause I plead--plead it in heart and mind; A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind. (Quote by - David Garrick)
Kindness in words creates confidence, kindness in thinking creates profoundness, kindness in feeling creates love. (Quote by - Lao Tzu)
If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
Moments of kindness and reconciliation are worth having, even if the parting has to come sooner or later. (Quote by - Alice Munro)
Do good by stealth, and blush to find it fame. (Quote by - Alexander Pope)
This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
What do we live for if it is not to make life less difficult to each other. (Quote by - George Eliot)
If we cannot be clever, we can always be kind. (Quote by - Alfred Fripp)
By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach. (Quote by - Winston Churchill)
There is no effect more disproportionate to its cause than the happiness bestowed by a small compliment. (Quote by - Robert Brault)
Life is short but there is always time for courtesy. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
Forget injuries, never forget kindness. (Quote by - Confucius)
One kind word can warm three winter months. (Quote by - Japanese Proverb)
If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. (Quote by - Mark Twain)
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. (Quote by - George Washington Carver)
Kindness is language which the dumb can speak, and the deaf can understand. (Quote by - C.N. Bovee)
Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end. (Quote by - Scott Adams)
Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up. (Quote by - Jesse Jackson)
Though he was rough, he was kindly. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. (Quote by - Dalai Lama)
There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life - reciprocity. (Quote by - Confucius)
To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving. (Quote by - Max Beerbohm)
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. (Quote by - Leo Buscaglia)
When your suffering is a little greater than my suffering I feel that I am a little cruel. (Quote by - Antonio Porchia)
